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| | * [[Judson Pratt]] appeared twice: "The Left Hand is Damned" (1964) and as a general in "Raid on the San Francisco Mint" (1965). | | * [[Judson Pratt]] appeared twice: "The Left Hand is Damned" (1964) and as a general in "Raid on the San Francisco Mint" (1965). |
| | * Guy Prescott (1914–1998) played Barnaby Taylor who enters a contest to determine "The Longest Beard in the World," a 1956 episode. His friends want him to accent his beard as he runs in California for the [[United States House of Representatives]], but his fiancé Francis Trent (Patricia Donohue) wants him clean shaven. When he loses the contest in [[Chicago]] by less than one inch in length, he shaves the beard and is still elected to Congress. However, ''The Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949'' does not have information on any Representative Barnaby Taylor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556835/?ref_=ttep_ep12 |title=The Longest Beard in the World on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 23, 2018}}</ref> | | * Guy Prescott (1914–1998) played Barnaby Taylor who enters a contest to determine "The Longest Beard in the World," a 1956 episode. His friends want him to accent his beard as he runs in California for the [[United States House of Representatives]], but his fiancé Francis Trent (Patricia Donohue) wants him clean shaven. When he loses the contest in [[Chicago]] by less than one inch in length, he shaves the beard and is still elected to Congress. However, ''The Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949'' does not have information on any Representative Barnaby Taylor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556835/?ref_=ttep_ep12 |title=The Longest Beard in the World on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 23, 2018}}</ref> |
| − | * William Pullen (1917–2008) was cast as Alex Todd in the 1956 episode, "The Last Letter." In the story line, Todd is a failed prospector with a thriving business delivering the U.S. mail to miners in the Death Valley country who are starving for news from home. [[Clint Eastwood]], before ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'', played John Lucas, who does not subscribe to Todd's service and nearly loses $2 million for his failure to do so.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556824/?ref_=ttep_ep20|title=The Last Letter on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref> | + | * William Pullen (1917–2008) was cast as Alex Todd in the 1956 episode, "The Last Letter." In the story line, Todd is a failed prospector with a thriving business delivering the U.S. mail to miners in the Death Valley country who are starving for news from home. [[Clint Eastwood]], before the ''Rawhide'' series, played John Lucas, who does not subscribe to Todd's service and nearly loses $2 million for his failure to do so.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556824/?ref_=ttep_ep20|title=The Last Letter on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref> |
| | * Denver Pyle was cast seven times, the last of which was in the title role, "The Resurrection of Deadwood Dick" (1966), based on the legendary frontiersman. He also appeared as the bigot Barkey who tries to get a Sioux brave (Michael Keep) lynched for defending his wife against a bigwig Sioux female molester. The brave (unlike Barkey) acts ""With Honor and Integrity" (1963) as does his lawyer Sandy Kenyon,. (Don C. Harvey) and the judge, Harry Holcombe, who refers the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also directed several episodes of ''Death Valley Days''. | | * Denver Pyle was cast seven times, the last of which was in the title role, "The Resurrection of Deadwood Dick" (1966), based on the legendary frontiersman. He also appeared as the bigot Barkey who tries to get a Sioux brave (Michael Keep) lynched for defending his wife against a bigwig Sioux female molester. The brave (unlike Barkey) acts ""With Honor and Integrity" (1963) as does his lawyer Sandy Kenyon,. (Don C. Harvey) and the judge, Harry Holcombe, who refers the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. He also directed several episodes of ''Death Valley Days''. |
| | *Eddie Quillan was cast as Hill Beachy in the 1961 episode, "Trial by Fear." In the story line, Beachy seeks to prove that two hoodlums, robbed and murdered his fellow businessman, Lloyd Magruder (Phil Chambers).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556917/|title=Trial by Fear on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=March 12, 2018}}</ref> | | *Eddie Quillan was cast as Hill Beachy in the 1961 episode, "Trial by Fear." In the story line, Beachy seeks to prove that two hoodlums, robbed and murdered his fellow businessman, Lloyd Magruder (Phil Chambers).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556917/|title=Trial by Fear on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=March 12, 2018}}</ref> |