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[[Image:Stanley Andrews.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Stanley Andrews under the moniker "The Old Ranger," hosted ''Death Valley Days'' from 1952 to 1964.]]

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[[Image:Actor Robert Taylor.jpg|25opx|right|thumb|Robert Taylor was the third ''Death Valley Days'' host who was replaced upon his death in 1969 by Dale Robertson of ''[[Tales of Wells Fargo]].'']]

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'''''Death Valley Days''''' is an [[United States|American]] old-time [[radio]] and [[television]] anthology series featuring true accounts of the American Old West, particularly the Death Valley country of southeastern [[California]]. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945. From 1952 to 1970, it became a syndicated television series, with reruns (updated with new narrations) continuing through August 1, 1975. The radio and television versions combined to make the show "one of the longest-running [[western]] programs in broadcast history."<ref name="french">Jack French and David S. Siegel S. (eds.) (2014). ''Radio Rides the Range: A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929–1967,'' McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 43–49.</ref>

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The series was sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax and hosted by Stanley Andrews under the name "The Old Ranger" (1952–1964), [[Ronald Reagan]] (1964–1965), Rosemary DeCamp (1965), Robert Taylor (1966–1969), and Dale Robertson (1969–1970). With the death of Dale Robertson in 2013, all former ''Death Valley Days'' hosts are ~~eceased~~. Hosting the series was Reagan's final work as an actor; he left the series to run in 1966 for [[governor]] of California.

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The series was sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax and hosted by Stanley Andrews under the name "The Old Ranger" (1952–1964), [[Ronald Reagan]] (1964–1965), Rosemary DeCamp (1965), Robert Taylor (1966–1969), and Dale Robertson (1969–1970). With the death of Dale Robertson in 2013, all former ''Death Valley Days'' hosts are deceased. Hosting the series was Reagan's final work as an actor; he left the series to run in 1966 for [[governor]] of California.

The television series was conceived by Pacific Coast Borax Company's advertising agency McCann-Erickson through company executive Dorothy McCann and Mitchell J. Hamilburg, who represented Gene Autry's Flying A Productions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9B0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11&dq=%22death%20valley%20days%22%20+%20mccann%20+%20borax%20+%20billboard&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje_cPKgP7RAhWFWCYKHR7tBUgQ6AEIKDAD#v=onepage&q=%22death%20valley%20days%22%20+%20mccann%20+%20borax%20+%20billboard&f=false|title=''Billboard''|date=June 21, 1952|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref>

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During the latter years of the series, some new episodes were still being made while older episodes were already in syndication. In some markets, new episodes could even be running in competition with older ones. To make it easier for viewers to distinguish between old and new, some blocks of syndicated "Death Valley Days" episodes were shown under other series names and with different hosts. This was common practice at the time among syndicated series because it was easy to reshoot the hosting portions of an episode without affecting the main content. Alternate series titles and their respective hosts included ''Frontier Adventure'' (Dale Robertson), ''The Pioneers'' (Will Rogers, Jr.), ''Trails West'' (Ray Milland), ''Western Star Theater'' (Rory Calhoun), and ''Call of the West'' (John Payne). The last title was also often applied to the series' memorable theme music.

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For its first two years, the series was produced by Autry's Flying A Productions; then from 1954 to 1959, it was handled by McGowan Productions, also known for the ''Sky King'' series.<ref>"McGowan Org takes "Death," "Dr. Christian," ''[[Billboard (magazine)|The Billboard],'', June 5, 1954, p. 8.</ref> Filmaster Productions Inc., which produced the first several seasons of ''Gunsmoke'' for [[CBS]] Television, took over production of the series after 1959. Madison Productions began to produce the series in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0039083/|title=Madison Productions|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 13, 2020}}</ref>

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For its first two years, the series was produced by Autry's Flying A Productions; then from 1954 to 1959, it was handled by McGowan Productions, also known for the ''Sky King'' series.<ref>"McGowan Org takes "Death," "Dr. Christian," ''[[Billboard (magazine)|The Billboard]],'', June 5, 1954, p. 8.</ref> Filmaster Productions Inc., which produced the first several seasons of ''Gunsmoke'' for [[CBS]] Television, took over production of the series after 1959. Madison Productions began to produce the series in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/company/co0039083/|title=Madison Productions|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 13, 2020}}</ref>

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==Guest stars==

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*James Adamson (1896–1956) and Felix Nelson (1913–1998) were cast, respectively, as [[African-American]] [[slave]]s Zack and Zeke, living in [[Louisville,]] [[Kentucky]], in the 1953 episode "Land of the Free." In the story line, the slaves successfully persuade their kindly master, Dr. Henry Cabell (Laton Riley Kirk, Sr.), to allow them to head west to find gold, by which they would purchase their freedom. Gail Davis appeared as Dr. Cabell's daughter, Jerrie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556653/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_21|title=Land of the Free on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=December 22, 2018}}</ref>

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*James Adamson (1896–1956) and Felix Nelson (1913–1998) were cast, respectively, as [[African-American]] [[slave]]s Zack and Zeke, living in [[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]], in the 1953 episode "Land of the Free." In the story line, the slaves successfully persuade their kindly master, Dr. Henry Cabell (Laton Riley Kirk, Sr.), to allow them to head west to find gold, by which they would purchase their freedom. Gail Davis appeared as Dr. Cabell's daughter, Jerrie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556653/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_21|title=Land of the Free on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=December 22, 2018}}</ref>

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* John Agar was cast as Dr. Charles Edwards, a new graduate of an eastern medical school who sets up his practice in ~~[[Placerville, California|~~Placerville]], California as a "Pioneer Doctor"(1963 episode). He faces a fight for patients with "Doc" Hutchins ([[Dick Foran]]), who is engaged only in superstition. Edwards treats some patients of Hutchins who are getting worse including an operation on a town ~~socalite~~, the wife of Lucius Bidwell, played by Ross Elliott. Hutchins starts and loses the resulting fatal gunfight with Edwards who has to sign his rival's death certificate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556704/|title=Pioneer Doctor on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=June 25, 2019}}</ref>

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* John Agar was cast as Dr. Charles Edwards, a new graduate of an eastern medical school who sets up his practice in Placerville, California as a "Pioneer Doctor"(1963 episode). He faces a fight for patients with "Doc" Hutchins (Dick Foran), who is engaged only in superstition. Edwards treats some patients of Hutchins who are getting worse including an operation on a town socialite, the wife of Lucius Bidwell, played by Ross Elliott. Hutchins starts and loses the resulting fatal gunfight with Edwards who has to sign his rival's death certificate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556704/|title=Pioneer Doctor on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=June 25, 2019}}</ref>

* Claude Akins played the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] raider Caleb Luck in the 1960 episode "Splinter Station." In the story line, Luck is sent to destroy the station, owned by Mary Taylor (Jane Russel]). The station provided [[horse]]s for the Union Army. The episode also features John Mitchum as Ox Jameson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556742/|title=Splinter Station|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=September 14, 2018}}</ref>

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* John Alderson was cast as the rugged trail guide Hugh Glass in the 1966 episode "Hugh Glass Meets the Bear," the story of a trapper mauled by a [[bear]] and left for dead, but who survived by crawling two hundred miles to safety. Others in the episode were Carl Reindel as ~~[im~~ Bridger, Morgan Woodward as trapper Thomas Fitzpatrick, Victor French as Louis Baptiste, and Tristram Coffin as Major Andrew Henry.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556638/ |title=Hugh Glass Meets the Bear on ''Death Valley Days'' |publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base]] |date=March 24, 1966 |accessdate=September 9, 2015}}</ref> Alderson played the historical trapper, Joseph Meek, in the earlier 1964 ''Death Valley Days'' episode "From the Earth, a Heritage." In that segment, a rival trapper pressures Meek to sell his beautiful Indian wife, Tula (Marianna Hill).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556619/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_54|title=From the Earth, a Heritage on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 3, 2019}}</ref>

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* John Alderson was cast as the rugged trail guide Hugh Glass in the 1966 episode "Hugh Glass Meets the Bear," the story of a trapper mauled by a [[bear]] and left for dead, but who survived by crawling two hundred miles to safety. Others in the episode were Carl Reindel as Jim Bridger, Morgan Woodward as trapper Thomas Fitzpatrick, Victor French as Louis Baptiste, and Tristram Coffin as Major Andrew Henry.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556638/ |title=Hugh Glass Meets the Bear on ''Death Valley Days'' |publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=March 24, 1966 |accessdate=September 9, 2015}}</ref> Alderson played the historical trapper, Joseph Meek, in the earlier 1964 ''Death Valley Days'' episode "From the Earth, a Heritage." In that segment, a rival trapper pressures Meek to sell his beautiful Indian wife, Tula (Marianna Hill).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556619/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_54|title=From the Earth, a Heritage on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 3, 2019}}</ref>

* Armand Alzamora (1928–2009) played the [[Mexico|Mexican]]-American outlaw Tiburcio Vásquez in the 1957 episode "The Last Bad Man." The segment focuses on Vasquez's early life of crime, his hatred for the Americans, his prison escape, and his [[hanging]] at the age of thirty-nine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556823/?ref_=ttep_ep18|title=The Last Bad Man on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 4, 2018}}</ref>

* Robert Anderson (1920–1996) was cast as General Philip Kearny, with Gregg Barton as Robert F. Stockton, in the 1966 episode "The Firebrand." Gerald Mohr and Will Kuluva played the brothers Andrés and Pío Pico, respectively. The episode is set in 1848 with the establishment of California Territory and the tensions between the outgoing Mexican government and the incoming American governor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556783/?ref_=tt_ep_pr |title=The Firebrand |publisher=Internet Movie Data Base |date=March 24, 1966 |accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref>

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* John Astin guest starred as Jesse Martin, a mine operator who finds gold in the middle of a town, in the 1968 episode "The Gold Mine on Main Street." Gregg Barton and Lita Baron also appeared in this episode.<ref>te web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556791/|title=The Gold Mine on Main Street on ''Death Valley Days'''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 7, 2018}}</ref>

* Tol Avery appeared five times on the series: as Frank Brenner in "The Resurrection of Deadwood Dick," as Walter Benson in "Doc Holliday's Gold Bars" (both 1966), and in historical roles as Judge Sidney Edgerton of Montana Territory in "Lucia Darling and the Ostrich" and as the [[mayor]] of Caldwell, Kansas, in "The Restless Man" (both 1969).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043086/?ref_=tt_cl_t1|title=Tol Avery|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 7, 2018}}</ref>

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*Richard Avonde (1914–1981) was cast as firefighter Philo Clark in the 1954 episode "Little Papeete," a reference to a special fire engine purchased by the community of [[Columbia~~, California|Columbia]]~~, California, which had burned in 1853 and again in 1857. In the story line, Clark leads the effort to purchase the engine, but his girlfriend, Sue Pellet (Emily Heath), grows jealous of Philo's devotion to the machine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556660/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3|title=Little Papeete on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=December 22, 2018}}</ref>

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*Richard Avonde (1914–1981) was cast as firefighter Philo Clark in the 1954 episode "Little Papeete," a reference to a special fire engine purchased by the community of Columbia, California, which had burned in 1853 and again in 1857. In the story line, Clark leads the effort to purchase the engine, but his girlfriend, Sue Pellet (Emily Heath), grows jealous of Philo's devotion to the machine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556660/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3|title=Little Papeete on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=December 22, 2018}}</ref>

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* James Best, among four appearances on ''Death Valley Days,'' was cast as miner "Tiny" Stoker in the 1955 episode, "Million Dollar Wedding." In the story line, Stoker, in a bet with his cohorts, proposes marriage to a presumably plain woman in their community, Aggie Filene (played by Virginia Lee, an actress who lived from 1924 to 2008). Soon, though the couple falls madly in love and go on a worldwide honeymoon tour with proceeds from a gold strike that they had nearly forfeited. And Aggie returns to the mining camp as a beautiful woman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556674/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_58|title=Million Dollar Wedding on 'Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 28, 2018}}</ref> As Reuel Colt Gridley, a southern Democrat Unionist in 1863 who raised $275,000 by repeatedly auctioning off "The $275,000 sack of flour" (1962) to benefit the forerunner of the Red Cross and is terrorized for it by the forerunner of the revenge bent terrorists Klu Klux Klan, the Knights of the Golden Circle.[319]

* Paul Birch played transcontinental telegraph line layer Mike Walsh in the 1959 episode, "Hang 'Em High." In the story line, Walsh competes with a rival company to be the first to lay the telegraph. Then Confederate sympathizers attempt to sabotage the telegraph. Arthur Space was cast as Ben Hudson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556632/|title=Hang 'Em High on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base]accessdate=June 11, 2019}}</ref>

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* Robert Blake, at thirty-three, played [[Billy the Kid]] in the 1966 episode, "The Kid from Hell's Kitchen." In the story line, The Kid sets out to avenge the death of his friend [[John Tunstall]] (John Anderson).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556817/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Kid from Hell's Kitchen on ''Death Valley Days''|date=October 20, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=May 31, 2015}}</ref>

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* Robert Blake, at thirty-three, played [[Billy the Kid]] in the 1966 episode, "The Kid from Hell's Kitchen." In the story line, The Kid sets out to avenge the death of his friend John Tunstall (John Anderson).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556817/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Kid from Hell's Kitchen on ''Death Valley Days''|date=October 20, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=May 31, 2015}}</ref>

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* John Bleifer, in the 1960 episode "One Man Tank," played a prospector, Dutch Charley Koehn, who failed at gold mining and instead bought a goat farm, on which he makes a gold strike. [[John Harmon ~~(actor)|John Harmon]]~~ was cast as Mike Shannon, who tries to evict Charley from the property. Charley's friend, Leo Harris (Dabbs Greer), tries to remedy the injustice Charley faces.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556691/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=One Man Tank on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 2, 2018}}</ref> Best was cast as Ruel Gridley in the 1962 ''Death Valley Days'' episode "The $275,000 Sack of Flour." In the story line, Gridley pays off a bet by donating a bag of flour to a fund for those wounded in the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556757/?ref_=ttep_ep17|title=The $275,000 Sack of Flour on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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* John Bleifer, in the 1960 episode "One Man Tank," played a prospector, Dutch Charley Koehn, who failed at gold mining and instead bought a goat farm, on which he makes a gold strike. John Harmon was cast as Mike Shannon, who tries to evict Charley from the property. Charley's friend, Leo Harris (Dabbs Greer), tries to remedy the injustice Charley faces.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556691/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=One Man Tank on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 2, 2018}}</ref> Best was cast as Ruel Gridley in the 1962 ''Death Valley Days'' episode "The $275,000 Sack of Flour." In the story line, Gridley pays off a bet by donating a bag of flour to a fund for those wounded in the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556757/?ref_=ttep_ep17|title=The $275,000 Sack of Flour on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

*Joan Blondell as the widowed Lucy Tutaine in the 1963 episode "The Train and Lucy Tutaine" harasses the railroad represented by Abel (Noah Beery Jr., for compensation for allegedly causing the death of her cow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556886/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=The Train and Lucy Tutaine on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 28, 2019}}</ref>

* Lloyd Bochner played the author [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] in the 1966 episode "Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo," directed by Denver Pyle.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556814/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo on ''Death Valley Days''|date=December 23, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 1, 2015}}</ref> Don Reardon (died 2004) played Stevenson in an earlier 1958 episode, "The Great Amulet." In the story line, Stevenson falls in love with Fanny Osbourne, played by Aline Towne, the mother of two children in a loveless marriage in San Francisco. The couple met in [[France]] where Stevenson recuperated from health issues and moved to San Francisco, where he worked tirelessly despite lingering health matters in the production of a large volume of literary works. The secret of the "Great Amulet" is revealed at the conclusion of the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556793/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9|title=The Great Amulet on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 31, 2018}}</ref>

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* Eric Bond played Philip Adams in the 1957 episode "The Washington Elm." A Bostonian, Adams yearns to live in the Pacific Northwest and establishes a law office in [[Seattle]], Washington]], but his romantic interest, Janice Peabody (Havis Davenport) refuses to relocate. He takes with him a portion of the elm tree on the [[Harvard University]] campus and replants it at the [[University of Washington] Thirty years later, he returns to the Harvard campus to plant part of the Washington elm on the campus because the original tree was destroyed in a storm. A chance encounters with Janice, by then a widow, leads to a second chance at romance for the pair.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556895/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=The Washington Elm on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

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* Eric Bond played Philip Adams in the 1957 episode "The Washington Elm." A Bostonian, Adams yearns to live in the Pacific Northwest and establishes a law office in [[Seattle]], Washington, but his romantic interest, Janice Peabody (Havis Davenport) refuses to relocate. He takes with him a portion of the elm tree on the [[Harvard University]] campus and replants it at the [[University of Washington]]. Thirty years later, he returns to the Harvard campus to plant part of the Washington elm on the campus because the original tree was destroyed in a storm. A chance encounters with Janice, by then a widow, leads to a second chance at romance for the pair.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556895/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=The Washington Elm on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

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* Carol Booth (born 1941), in the 1969 episode "Lucia Darling and the Ostrich," played a teacher trying to establish a school in 1863 in the since ghost town of Bannack, Montana. In the story line, a masked sheriff (William Bryant) and his deputy (Jeff Morris) rob the [[stagecoach]] bringing Lucia to Montana and steal both gold and her textbooks. She sets out to prove the officers' guilt despite the reservations of both the town itself – hence the reference to "The Ostrich" in the sand in the title of the episode – and her uncle, Judge Sidney Edgerton (Tol Avery), who shortly thereafter became the first ~~[[governor of Montana|~~governor]] of the [[Montana]] Territory.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959701/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=Lucia Darling and the Ostrich|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=May 11, 1969|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref>

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* Carol Booth (born 1941), in the 1969 episode "Lucia Darling and the Ostrich," played a teacher trying to establish a school in 1863 in the since ghost town of Bannack, Montana. In the story line, a masked sheriff (William Bryant) and his deputy (Jeff Morris) rob the [[stagecoach]] bringing Lucia to Montana and steal both gold and her textbooks. She sets out to prove the officers' guilt despite the reservations of both the town itself – hence the reference to "The Ostrich" in the sand in the title of the episode – and her uncle, Judge Sidney Edgerton (Tol Avery), who shortly thereafter became the first governor of the [[Montana]] Territory.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959701/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=Lucia Darling and the Ostrich|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=May 11, 1969|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref>

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* William Boyett played respected settler Jim Hardwicke in the 1954 episode "11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong." In the story line, Columbia, California, is in competition with [[~~Sacrame~~]]~~, California,~~ to be the site of the California state capital. When he informs the sheriff (Glenn Strange) that he had killed a man in self-defense, Hardwicke is forced to stand trial. Because of political influence placed on the jury by a corrupt district attorney, Hardwicke was found guilty. His ~~fiancee~~ and his lawyer, Ed Barrett (Gordon Barnes), develop a bizarre scheme to free Hardwicke from the hangman's noose; Barrett steals from a safe in the local bank a petition fomented by the same DA with 11,000 signatures of persons who want Columbia to be the capital, rewrites the first page to call for a [[pardon]] for Hardwicke, and appeals to the governor, who is impressed that so many signed. The governor orders Hardwicke's release; but Columbia justly loses out to Sacramento.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556603/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> In another role, Boyett played Dr. Edward Wilson in the 1957 episode, "The Luck of the Irish." In the story line, while fighting an [[epidemic]] among the Paiute, Dr. Wilson encounters a young white woman, Kay Casey (Rosemarie Ace), who was taken by the Indians years earlier. When the doctor unites Kay with her large family, she leaves the Paiute and in time became Mrs. Wilson. John Sorrentino played the sympathetic Chief Red Cloud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556836/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=The Luck of the Irish on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref> In the 1955 episode, "The Mormon's Grindstone," Boyett played John Corwin, the friend of the new assayer in town, Murphy (Clark Howat), whom some of the miners believe is understating the value of the assays. ~~Thn~~ Murphy reports that the sandstone in "The Mormon's Grindstone" assays much richer than any other ore around. With [[Harry Lauter]] as Cy Meeker and [[Hank Patterson]] as "Dad the blacksmith."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556848/|title=The Mormon's Grindstone on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 8, 2019}}</ref>

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* William Boyett played respected settler Jim Hardwicke in the 1954 episode "11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong." In the story line, Columbia, California, is in competition with [[Sacramento]] to be the site of the California state capital. When he informs the sheriff (Glenn Strange) that he had killed a man in self-defense, Hardwicke is forced to stand trial. Because of political influence placed on the jury by a corrupt district attorney, Hardwicke was found guilty. His fiancée and his lawyer, Ed Barrett (Gordon Barnes), develop a bizarre scheme to free Hardwicke from the hangman's noose; Barrett steals from a safe in the local bank a petition fomented by the same DA with 11,000 signatures of persons who want Columbia to be the capital, rewrites the first page to call for a [[pardon]] for Hardwicke, and appeals to the governor, who is impressed that so many signed. The governor orders Hardwicke's release; but Columbia justly loses out to Sacramento.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556603/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> In another role, Boyett played Dr. Edward Wilson in the 1957 episode, "The Luck of the Irish." In the story line, while fighting an [[epidemic]] among the Paiute, Dr. Wilson encounters a young white woman, Kay Casey (Rosemarie Ace), who was taken by the Indians years earlier. When the doctor unites Kay with her large family, she leaves the Paiute and in time became Mrs. Wilson. John Sorrentino played the sympathetic Chief Red Cloud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556836/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=The Luck of the Irish on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref> In the 1955 episode, "The Mormon's Grindstone," Boyett played John Corwin, the friend of the new assayer in town, Murphy (Clark Howat), whom some of the miners believe is understating the value of the assays. Then Murphy reports that the sandstone in "The Mormon's Grindstone" assays much richer than any other ore around. With Harry Lauter as Cy Meeker and Hank Patterson as "Dad the blacksmith."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556848/|title=The Mormon's Grindstone on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 8, 2019}}</ref>

* Ray Boyle guest starred as Bruce Matthews, a young miner with claustrophobia, in the 1954 episode "Yaller."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556933/?|title=Yaller on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 10, 2018}}</ref>

* Lane Bradbury was cast as a young Eliza Stewart Udall at Pipe Spring in southern [[Utah]] in the 1969 episode "A Key for the Fort." In the story line, Miss Stewart, a [[Mormon]] pioneer, sends the first [[telegraph]] message from Arizona Territory and works with her Aunt Cora (Ivalou Redd) to find an innovative way to nurse an ill Ute chief, Black Wing (George Keymas), back to health. The episode also stars [[Gregg Palmer]] as Jacob. The episode was filmed at [[Pipe Spring National Monument]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954622/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=A Key for the Fort|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=March 26, 1969|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}</ref>

* Lane Bradford played the historical Indian chief Sequoyah, the namesake of [[Sequoia National Park]], in the 1954 episode "Sequoia." The segment covers Sequoyah from his earliest years to his development of the [[Cherokee]] alphabet. Carol Thurston and Angie Dickinson played Sali and Ayoka, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556725/?ref_=ttep_ep7|title=Sequoia on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 16, 2018}}</ref> Bradford played California pioneer Jim Savage in the 1959 episode "The Blonde King." A friend of the Indians, Savage works to stop a threat to the peace of the [[Yosemite Valley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556766/?ref_=ttep_ep13

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*Jolene Brand portrayed "Indian Emily" in the 1959 episode of the same name. At the [[United States Army]] outpost, Fort Davis National Historic Site in Texas] Emily, an Apache captive, adopts the white man's ways but flees when a young officer, Tom Easton (Burt Metcalfe), whom she loves prepares to marry another. She returns to warn the fort of a pending Apache attack and dies after saving the fort of a gunshot wound fired in error. Meg Wyllie played Tom's compassionate mother, Mrs. Easton. A memorial has been erected at Fort Davis to honor the heroism of Indian Emily.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556642/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13|title=Indian Emily on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 25, 2019}}</ref>

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*Jolene Brand portrayed "Indian Emily" in the 1959 episode of the same name. At the [[United States Army]] outpost, Fort Davis National Historic Site in Texas, Emily, an Apache captive, adopts the white man's ways but flees when a young officer, Tom Easton (Burt Metcalfe), whom she loves prepares to marry another. She returns to warn the fort of a pending Apache attack and dies after saving the fort of a gunshot wound fired in error. Meg Wyllie played Tom's compassionate mother, Mrs. Easton. A memorial has been erected at Fort Davis to honor the heroism of Indian Emily.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556642/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13|title=Indian Emily on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 25, 2019}}</ref>

* Neville Brand was cast as John Wesley Hardin in the 1962 episode "Preacher with a Past." In his reformed role as a minister, Hardin faces a dilemma when Deke (Richard Devon) will expose his identity unless he helps break Herschel (Chris Robinson) out of jail. Roy Engel played Sheriff Smathers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556707/?ref_=ttep_ep7|title=Preacher with a Past on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

*David Brian played the Mormon figure Jacob Hamblin in the 1963 episode "The Peacemaker." In the story line, Hamblin works feverishly to hold the peace treaty with the Navajo after a white man kills some Indians who come onto his property. Bing Russell, Michael Pate, and Richard Webb also appear in this episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556855/|title=The Peacemaker on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 4, 2015}}</ref>

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* James Caan and Roy Thinnes were cast as rovers Bob and Jim, respectively who manage to stay only in the "Shadow of Violence" (1963) after a disreputable towns' person catches them digging in a cemetery in a California town. Their "uncle" Woodson Hugh Sanders shows the tombstone they were planting that reveals them to be outlaw sons of a prominent local. Karyn Kupcinet played Julie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556726/|title=Shadow of Violence on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=March 1, 2019}}</ref> Caan also played wild Jim McKinney whose evil influence on his younger brother forced his father, Steve, R. G. Armstrong , to make the "Deadly Decision" (1963).

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* James Caan and Roy Thinnes were cast as rovers Bob and Jim, respectively who manage to stay only in the "Shadow of Violence" (1963) after a disreputable towns' person catches them digging in a cemetery in a California town. Their "uncle" Woodson Hugh Sanders shows the tombstone they were planting that reveals them to be outlaw sons of a prominent local. Karyn Kupcinet played Julie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556726/|title=Shadow of Violence on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=March 1, 2019}}</ref> Caan also played wild Jim McKinney whose evil influence on his younger brother forced his father, Steve, R. G. Armstrong, to make the "Deadly Decision" (1963).

* Rory Calhoun played the legendary Arizona Ranger Burt Mossman in the 1963 episode "The Measure of a Man." In the story line, Mossman convinces a reluctant [[Burt Alvord]] (Bing Russell) to set a trap to catch the elusive bandit Augustine Chacon ([ichael Pate).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556672/fullcredits|title=The Measure of a Man|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 3, 2015}}</ref> In the 1966 episode "Water Bringer" Calhoun played early California entrepreneur William A. Richardson, who arrives in the future San Francisco off the ship, the ''Orion'' commanded by Don Haggerty, Lita Baron was cast as Maria Martinez, the future Mrs. Richardson with (Will Kuluva) as Maria's father, Commandante Ygnacio Martinez.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556923/?ref_=tt_ep_pr|title=The Water Bringer|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=March 17, 1966|accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref>

* Charles Carlson, who had a limited acting career from 1960 to 1967, was cast as [[Wild Bill Hickok]] in the 1962 episode "The Truth Teller," the story of the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867. [[Barney Phillips]] appeared as the historical General Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556889/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=The Truth Teller on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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* Harry Cody (1896–1956) played the aging prospector and Death Valley pioneer Jimmy Dayton in the 1954 episode, "Jimmy Dayton's Treasure." [arbara Knudson played saloon singer Flory Wilkins, who is breaking up with a former paramour, Thad Ryeker (Harry Lauter). She agrees to marry Jimmy because she thinks he has money hidden on the ranch of which he is the caretaker. Her change of heart led to Jimmy and Flory reconciling their differences. Cody died two years after the release of this episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556644/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_17|title=Jimmy Dayton's Treasure on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 9, 2019}}</ref>

* Robert Colbert was cast as Andy Carter, a pioneer who retrieves for sale cast-off items from wagon trains, in the 1964 episode, "A Bargain Is for Keeping." Sue Randall played Mary Ann Duncan, who finds a missing family heirloom among Carter's goods. He insists that she work for him to gain possession. Karl Swenson was cast as Abe Hughes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556529/?ref_=ttep_ep27|title=A Bargain Is for Keeping|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 11, 2018}}</ref>

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* Don Collier and Jan Clayton were cast as Josiah Wilbarger and his sister, Margaret, in the 1967 episode ,"The Man Who Wouldn't Die." Wilbarger, a native of [[Virginia]], lived for eleven years after being scalped by the Comanche. Wilbarger County, Texas]], is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556843/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Man Who Wouldn't Die, ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 6, 2015}}</ref> Collier was also cast as Frank Dalton in the 1964 episode, "There Was Another Dalton Brother." In the story line, while starting his job as a deputy U.S. marshal, Dalton must question Frank Johnson, a suspect in a missing persons case. Johnson is the father of Dalton's girlfriend, Emmy Johnson (Laura Shelton). Strother Martin was cast in this episode as Charlie Neel. Robert Anderson played Marshal Heck Thomas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556906/?ref_=ttep_ep24|title=There Was Another Dalton Brother on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 10, 2018}}</ref>

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* Don Collier and Jan Clayton were cast as Josiah Wilbarger and his sister, Margaret, in the 1967 episode, "The Man Who Wouldn't Die." Wilbarger, a native of [[Virginia]], lived for eleven years after being scalped by the Comanche. Wilbarger County, Texas]], is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556843/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Man Who Wouldn't Die, ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 6, 2015}}</ref> Collier was also cast as Frank Dalton in the 1964 episode, "There Was Another Dalton Brother." In the story line, while starting his job as a deputy U.S. marshal, Dalton must question Frank Johnson, a suspect in a missing persons case. Johnson is the father of Dalton's girlfriend, Emmy Johnson (Laura Shelton). Strother Martin was cast in this episode as Charlie Neel. Robert Anderson played Marshal Heck Thomas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556906/?ref_=ttep_ep24|title=There Was Another Dalton Brother on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 10, 2018}}</ref>

* Ben Cooper appeared as Jason Tugwell in the unusually named 1969 episode "Biscuits and Billy, the Kid," no relation to the American outlaw but the story of a pioneer family deserted by a wagon train en route to Utah. Erin Moran was cast as their young daughter, Mary, who is ill with a high fever. They survived the threat of Indians by the popularity of the biscuits of Mrs. Ellie Tugwell (Emily Banks) and their dainty blue-eyed white goat called Billy. Michael Hinn (1913–1988) appeared near the end of the episode as the Mormon figure [[Brigham Young]] preaching peace on the frontier.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556562/|title=Biscuits and Billy, the Kid on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 12, 2020}}</ref> to spare the lives of her husband and son, played by Harry Lauter and Michael Courtney, respectively, as the family waits on an approaching wagon train.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959692/|title=A Gift on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=January 10, 1969|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}</ref> Cooper also played Ann Dix in the 1955 episode "I Am Joaquin." In the story line, Ann searches with ultimate success for eight years for the return of her young daughter whom the Mexican bandt Joaquin Murrieta left at a [[Roman Catholic]] church after he boarded a ship and stabbed to death the girl's father, Capt. Stephen Dix, played by John Damler (1919–1984).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556641/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=I Am Joaquin on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> Much earlier, in 1954, Cooper was cast as Susie Jarvis in the episode, "Sixth Sense." Susie is unable to adjust to her blindness until she meets Steve McIntyre (William Hudson), who encourages her to learn telegraphy. She witnesses a stage robbery; her heightened senses play a key role in solving the crime.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556734/|title=Sixth Sense on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Dat Base|accessdate=June 11, 2019}}</ref>

* Lloyd Corrigan was cast as the lucky hobo, Carl Herman, in the 1960 episode "Money to Burn." Helen Kleeb played a recipient of Herman's largess.[Paul Sorens] and William Boyett played the thieves whose $50,000 worth of loot Herman found and then gave away.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556679/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_22|title=Money to Burn on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 4, 2018}}</ref> In 1962, Corrigan was cast as Dorsey Bilger, the bearer of tall tales in Totem, [[Idaho]], in the episode "A Sponge Full of Vinegar." In the story line, the townspeople no longer valued Dorsey's "fairy tales"he tells the children, but he dies a hero rescuing trapped children from the clutches of a gunslinger, Charlie Winslow ([[Chris Alcaide]]). The episode title refers to the hard attitude the townspeople held toward the kind and gentle Dorsey. This episode also featured Paul Birch as Sheriff Lick.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556743/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=A Sponge Full of Vinegar on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Dat Base|accessdate=September 17, 2018}}</ref>

* Jerome Courtland was cast as newspaperman William Byers in the episode, "The Race at Cherry Creek." In the story line, Byers races against time to put out the first newspaper in the Colorado Territory during the gold rush year of 1859. His ''Rocky Mountain News'' became the first publication in the territory. Though strongly encouraged in the pursuit by his wife Elizabeth (Nancy Rennick), Byers' pressman, Andy Kate ([[Alvy Moore]]), is pessimistic about their chances of publishing first.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556858/|title=The Race at Cherry Creek on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 11, 2018}}</ref>

* Dennis Cross appeared three times in the episodes "Treasure of Elk Creek Canyon" (1961), as the Indian Captain Dick in "Captain Dick Mine," and "The Rider" (both 1965).

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* Joel Crothers was cast in the 1960 episode, "3-7-77," as young Jim Badger, who tangles with corrupt lawmen and [[vigilante]]s in Alder Gulch, Montana Territory. The episode title refers to the unknown secret code of the ~~viglantes~~.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556528/|title=3-7-77 on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 18, 2018}}</ref>

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* Joel Crothers was cast in the 1960 episode, "3-7-77," as young Jim Badger, who tangles with corrupt lawmen and [[vigilante]]s in Alder Gulch, Montana Territory. The episode title refers to the unknown secret code of the vigilantes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556528/|title=3-7-77 on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 18, 2018}}</ref>

* Kathleen Crowley appeared as Elizabeth Hayward in "Somewhere beyond the Vultures" (1959).

* Robert Culp was cast as the accused robber and killer James Stuart in the 1961 episode, "Alias James Stuart." The episode focuses on mistaken identity: whether this Stuart, who claims to be honest citizen Tom Burdue, knifed to death a storekeeper named Jansen. Eleanor Berry (1906–1991) was cast as Mrs. Stuart, who can identify her abusive but charismatic husband<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556551/?ref_=ttep_ep21|title=Alias James Stuart on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 10, 2018}}</ref> with John Zaremba as the trial judge.

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* Ken Curtis appeared as a muleskinner, James "Paddy" Graydon (1832–1862), in the 1964 episode "Graydon's Charge," a dramatization of one of the last clashes of the Civil War in New Mexico Territory. In the story line, the Union Army plans an attack against a renegade [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] camp. Denver Pyle played Graydon's partner, Ortho Williams. They two eye the attention of a widow (Cathy Lewis) and seek to show their courage to win her hand. Graydon agrees with reluctance to send his [[mule]]s, laden with [[dynamite]] into the rival camp. The episode is semi-comedic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556627/|title=Graydon's Charge on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=January 5, 1964|accessdate=August 5, 2015}}</ref> Graydon's story is the subject of the 1992 book, ''Captain Paddy Graydon: Desert Tiger,, by the [[historian]] Jerry Don Thompson.

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* Ken Curtis appeared as a muleskinner, James "Paddy" Graydon (1832–1862), in the 1964 episode "Graydon's Charge," a dramatization of one of the last clashes of the Civil War in New Mexico Territory. In the story line, the Union Army plans an attack against a renegade [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] camp. Denver Pyle played Graydon's partner, Ortho Williams. They two eye the attention of a widow (Cathy Lewis) and seek to show their courage to win her hand. Graydon agrees with reluctance to send his [[mule]]s, laden with [[dynamite]] into the rival camp. The episode is semi-comedic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556627/|title=Graydon's Charge on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=January 5, 1964|accessdate=August 5, 2015}}</ref> Graydon's story is the subject of the 1992 book, ''Captain Paddy Graydon: Desert Tiger, by the [[historian]] Jerry Don Thompson.

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|title=The Grand Duke on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|accessdate=September 1, 2018}}</ref> Davion was also cast as storekeeper Mitchell Hobart in the 1961 episode, "Loophole." In the story line, Hobart uses another loophole against Claypool (Bruce Gordon) into having to sign back the deed to a Nevada mine which Claypool has swindled from Hobart's friend, Jebal McSween [Arthur Shields).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556663/|title=Loophole on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>

* Gail Davis appeared in two episodes, "The Little Bullfrog Nugget" (1952), in which she played Mamie Jaggers, the only single woman in Bulldog, Nevada, where she had to contend with several suitors,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0946054/|title=The Little Bullfrog Nugget|date=October 15, 1952|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base}}</ref> Then in 1953, Davis was cast in "Land of the Free" in the role of Jerrie Cabell.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556653/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt|title=Land of the Free|date=May 26, 1953|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base}}</ref> Davis would go on to star in her own western series, ''Annie Oakley.''

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*Jim Davis was cast as Mark Tabor, a [[U.S. Representative]] from [[Nevada]] in the 1953 episode, "Little Washington," set in 1878 in [[Carson City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556661/|title=Little Washington|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=October 1, 1953|accessdate=August 7, 2015}}</ref> This was the first of Davis's thirteen appearances on ''Death Valley Day.'' Davis portrayed ~~Grat~~ Dalton in the 1963 episode, "Three Minutes to Eternity," about the simultaneous and last bank robberies carried out in Coffeyville, Kansas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556909/|title=Three Minutes to Eternity on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref> Davis played a wagon master, Ezra Meeker, abandoned by members of his wagon train who decided to stop the trip to Oregon instead to prospect for gold in the 1965 episode, "Devil's Gate."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959694/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|title=Devil's Gate on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=December 23, 1965|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> In 1967, he played freighter Luke Campbell of Deadwood, [[South Dakota]], in the episode, "The Day They Stole the Salamander," a reference to a Salamander Safe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963433/|title=The Day They Stole the Salamander|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=April 28, 1967|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> In 1969, Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831–1912), who takes revenge on the late ghost town of Helena, Texas, after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of [[San Antonio]], became the seat of government of Karnes County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0957663/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Oldest Law|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 16, 2015}}</ref> In a 1964 appearance, "After the OK Corral," Davis played Wyatt Earp, with John Clarke and Jeff Morris] as his brothers, Virgil and Morgan Earp] respectively. William Tannen, Dan Stafford, and Bradley Stewart (1924–1995) were cast as Ike Clanton, Doc Holliday, and Curly Bill Brocius, respectively. The episode focuses on events after the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556550/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=After the OK Corral on ''Death Valley Days''publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 18, 2018}}</ref>

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*Jim Davis was cast as Mark Tabor, a [[U.S. Representative]] from [[Nevada]] in the 1953 episode, "Little Washington," set in 1878 in [[Carson City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556661/|title=Little Washington|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=October 1, 1953|accessdate=August 7, 2015}}</ref> This was the first of Davis's thirteen appearances on ''Death Valley Day.'' Davis portrayed Great Dalton in the 1963 episode, "Three Minutes to Eternity," about the simultaneous and last bank robberies carried out in Coffeyville, Kansas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556909/|title=Three Minutes to Eternity on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref> Davis played a wagon master, Ezra Meeker, abandoned by members of his wagon train who decided to stop the trip to Oregon instead to prospect for gold in the 1965 episode, "Devil's Gate."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959694/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|title=Devil's Gate on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=December 23, 1965|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> In 1967, he played freighter Luke Campbell of Deadwood, [[South Dakota]], in the episode, "The Day They Stole the Salamander," a reference to a Salamander Safe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963433/|title=The Day They Stole the Salamander|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=April 28, 1967|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> In 1969, Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831–1912), who takes revenge on the late ghost town of Helena, Texas, after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of [[San Antonio]], became the seat of government of Karnes County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0957663/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Oldest Law|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 16, 2015}}</ref> In a 1964 appearance, "After the OK Corral," Davis played Wyatt Earp, with John Clarke and Jeff Morris] as his brothers, Virgil and Morgan Earp] respectively. William Tannen, Dan Stafford, and Bradley Stewart (1924–1995) were cast as Ike Clanton, Doc Holliday, and Curly Bill Brocius, respectively. The episode focuses on events after the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556550/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=After the OK Corral on ''Death Valley Days''publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 18, 2018}}</ref>

* Dennis Day was cast in the 1962 episode "Way Station" as Jason Barnes, an ambitious railroad employee who is romancing the daughter, Cynthia Waterfield (Theona Bryant), of his boss, Clay Waterfield (Frank Willcox). Merry Anders portrayed Abby Jefferson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556924/?ref_=ttep_ep12|title=Way Station on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

*June Dayton was cast as a nun, Sister Mary Frances, in the 1960 episode "The Wind at Your Back." In the story line, the nun tries to convince a young wounded outlaw, Johnny Carter (Steven Terrell), whom she is treating at a mission school to turn himself into the law.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556901/|title=The Wind at Your Back on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 26, 2019}}</ref>

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*Paul Fix, six years after ''The Rifleman]' ended its run on ABC, played the hardy, cantankerous pioneer, James Briton "Brit" Bailey], with Rosemary ~~DeCa]~~ as his equally defiant wife, Hannah, in the 1969 episode, "Here Stands Bailey." In the story line, the Baileys are ordered off their land at what is now Bailey's Prairie, Texas, by [[Stephen F. Austin]] (John Carter), who is bringing the Old Three Hundred]] original settlers to the area. Austin has a change of heart and asks the Baileys to stay. Bailey dies with his final wish of interment standing upright facing west, hence his grave marker, "Here Stands Bailey Facing West."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959698/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Here Stands Bailey on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=February 18, 1969|accessdate=July 13, 2015}}</ref>

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*Paul Fix, six years after ''The Rifleman'' ended its run on ABC, played the hardy, cantankerous pioneer, James Briton "Brit" Bailey], with Rosemary DeCamp as his equally defiant wife, Hannah, in the 1969 episode, "Here Stands Bailey." In the story line, the Baileys are ordered off their land at what is now Bailey's Prairie, Texas, by [[Stephen F. Austin]] (John Carter), who is bringing the Old Three Hundred original settlers to the area. Austin has a change of heart and asks the Baileys to stay. Bailey dies with his final wish of interment standing upright facing west, hence his grave marker, "Here Stands Bailey Facing West."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959698/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Here Stands Bailey on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=February 18, 1969|accessdate=July 13, 2015}}</ref>

* Harry Fleer was cast as Wyatt Earp in the 1957 episode, "Birth of a Boom." In the story line, prospector Jim Butler (Roy Bancroft) strikes a rich vein in Tonopah] Nevada, in 1900, which makes him and his partners, Johnny Regan (Joel Smith) and Tasker Oddie (Byron Keith), wealthy. The prospectors enlist Earp to stop claim jumping.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556560/?ref_=ttep_ep5|title=Birth of a Boom on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

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* Rhonda Fleming was cast as the femme fatale Kitty Bolton. In the story line, the rejected manipulative Kitty causes a "Loss of faith" (1962) in Joe Phy (Jim Davis) against best friend Sheriff Peter Gabriel (Don Collier), grieving for his ~~fiancee~~ whose love of true relationships has alerted him to Kitty's manipulation of Joe in particular, who is incited to run for sheriff of Pima County, Arizona. But as in recent elections, the majority of the men voters listened to the women who better recognized evil intended manipulation from her school days, and she incites violence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556664/?ref_=ttep_ep28|title=Loss of Faith on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 18, 2019}}</ref>

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* Rhonda Fleming was cast as the femme fatale Kitty Bolton. In the story line, the rejected manipulative Kitty causes a "Loss of faith" (1962) in Joe Phy (Jim Davis) against best friend Sheriff Peter Gabriel (Don Collier), grieving for his fiancée whose love of true relationships has alerted him to Kitty's manipulation of Joe in particular, who is incited to run for sheriff of Pima County, Arizona. But as in recent elections, the majority of the men voters listened to the women who better recognized evil intended manipulation from her school days, and she incites violence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556664/?ref_=ttep_ep28|title=Loss of Faith on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 18, 2019}}</ref>

* Benson Fong played Sam Kee in "Sam Kee and Uncle Sam." In the story line, Kee, a [[China|Chinese]] man, is being driven out of the United States in a congressionally-sanctioned racial ethnic cleansing when he saves a cavalryman who is being attacked by Apache and eventually aids the entire fort. The commander, Lieutenant Burke (James Douglas) (1929–2016) knows better than to "obey orders" by continuing with Sam's deportation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556719/fullcredits|title=Sam Kee and Uncle Sam on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

*Dick Foran played muleskinner Ferguson, with William Schallert as his partner, Dave Mesier, in the 1961 episode "The Breaking Point." In the story line Shad Cullen (DeForest Kelley), Meiser's partner in a gold mine, knows that Ferguson and Mesier have discovered. Not wanting to share the gold, Cullen foments probably fatal discord. Grace Lee Whitney was cast as Verna.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556768/|title=The Breaking Point on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Dat Base|accessdate=December 20, 2018}}</ref>

* Wallace Ford and Irene Barton were cast as cantankerous rival miners, Buck Hansen and Jennie Parrish, in the 1953 episode, "Claim Jumping Jennie." When Jennie's daughter Linda (Karen Sharpe), educated in the East, visits her mother for the first time in seven years, Linda learns that her mother has not yet struck wealth though she had pretended to have done so in their letters. The episode ends with a partnership between Buck and Jennie to work their neighboring mines.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556578/?ref_=ttep_ep7|title=Claim Jumping Jennie on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=November 12, 2020}}</ref>

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* Steve Forrest played "The Lion of Idaho" (1963) who would become [[U.S. Senator]] William Borah. In the story line, Borah is a young attorney who defends a woman in Nampa, [[Idaho]], on a murder charge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556830/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=The Lion of Idaho on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data

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* Steve Forrest played "The Lion of Idaho" (1963) who would become [[U.S. Senator]] [[William Borah]]. In the story line, Borah is a young attorney who defends a woman in Nampa, [[Idaho]], on a murder charge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556830/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=The Lion of Idaho on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 8, 2018}}</ref> with comic relief J. Pat O'Malley. In the 1964 episode, "See the Elephant and Hear the Owl," Forrest played a down-and-out cowboy, Jack Costello, who is smitten with Julie Stedman (Sue Randall), the daughter of the wealthy cattle baron Col. Stedman ([oy Roberts), who tries to destroy Costello.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556721/?ref_=ttep_ep15|title=See the Elephant and Hear the Owl on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 10, 2019}}</ref>

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Base|accessdate=September 8, 2018}}</ref> with comic relief J. Pat O'Malley. In the 1964 episode, "See the Elephant and Hear the Owl," Forrest played a down-and-out cowboy, Jack Costello, who is smitten with Julie Stedman (Sue Randall), the daughter of the wealthy cattle baron Col. Stedman ([oy Roberts), who tries to destroy Costello.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556721/?ref_=ttep_ep15|title=See the Elephant and Hear the Owl on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 10, 2019}}</ref>

* Ron Foster appeared as Silas Begg in the 1957 episode, "Rough and Ready."

* Douglas Fowley, as "Cap'n Peg Leg" (1960), shoots in the back a number of men, including Charlie Tetlow and John Starkweather, played by William Schallert and Paul Burke, respectively, whom he blames for causing him to lose a leg. Jerry Paris was cast as Brian Brophy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556574/?ref_=ttep_ep19|title=Cap'n Peg Leg on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 2, 2018}}</ref>

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* Percy Helton played Alex Grant, who is arrested for a 15-year-old murder when he returns to a mining camp, in the 1955 episode, "The Hangman Waits." Things look bleak for Grant until his youthful lawyer, Greg Lewis (Clark Howat), locates a corroborating witness, 75-year-old Harry Gander (Hank Patterson), whose personal diary clears Grant. James Seay played corrupt district attorney Lucius Peck.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556801/?ref_=ttep_ep8|title=the Hangman Waits on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> Helton also appeared as Scrubby in the 1958 episode, "Big Liz."

* William Henry was cast as the San Francisco lawyer Lew Barry in the 1952 episode, "Self Made Man." In the story line, after he loses an arm in a shooting and cannot earn his livelihood as a rock driller, his wife Doris Merrick persuades the despondent Barry to study to become a lawyer. Years later, he gains the acquittal on a murder charge of Jerry (Steve Conte), the man who shot him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556723/|title=Self Made Man on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 20, 2018}}</ref>

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* Craig Hill was cast as the author Bret Harte in "Year of Destiny," the last episode of 1956. In the story line, Harte leaves the East and arrives in California in the 1850s. First a stagecoach guard, then a newspaper editor and schoolteacher, he finds fame as a western writer, the author of such short stories as "The Luck of Roaring Camp'' and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556936/?ref_=ttep_ep21|title=Year of Destiny on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref>; Mauritz Hugo appeared as Bummer Smith, the suicidal father of his first main character. Hill was then cast in the 1957 episode, "Train of Events" as H. MacFarlane, who guards shipments for the railroad. When he clashes with the Clayton gang, MacFarlane makes mortal enemies Anne Gwynne and Harry Fleer appeared, respectively, as Belle and Vic Clayton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556913/?ref_=ttep_ep8|title=Train of Events on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 7, 2019}}</ref>

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* Craig Hill was cast as the author Bret Harte in "Year of Destiny," the last episode of 1956. In the story line, Harte leaves the East and arrives in California in the 1850s. First a stagecoach guard, then a newspaper editor and schoolteacher, he finds fame as a western writer, the author of such short stories as "The Luck of Roaring Camp'' and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat.";<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556936/?ref_=ttep_ep21|title=Year of Destiny on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref> Mauritz Hugo appeared as Bummer Smith, the suicidal father of his first main character. Hill was then cast in the 1957 episode, "Train of Events" as H. MacFarlane, who guards shipments for the railroad. When he clashes with the Clayton gang, MacFarlane makes mortal enemies Anne Gwynne and Harry Fleer appeared, respectively, as Belle and Vic Clayton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556913/?ref_=ttep_ep8|title=Train of Events on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 7, 2019}}</ref>

* Michael Hinn (1913–1988) of the former ''Boots and Saddles'' syndicated television series played [[Brigham Young]] in the 1969 episode, "Biscuits and Billy, the Kid." In the story line, the Tugwell family, Jason (Ben Cooper), Ellie (Emily Banks), and Mary (Erin Moran), are abandoned by their guide while on a wagon train from Utah to California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556562/?ref_=ttep_ep19|title=Biscuits and Billy, the Kid|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref> He was also in "The Watch" and in "The Vintage Years".

* Boyd Hollister (credited as Robert Palmer) was cast as Bill Gentry, who is courting Susan Sayres (Sandra Marsh) in the 1961 episode "The Third Passenger," a reference to a stray dog which witnesses the murder of Susan's father, Lew Sayres (Tyler McVey).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556907/?ref_=ttep_ep19|title=The Third Passenger on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref>

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* Bradford Jackson (1928–2009) was cast as the Boston greenhorn Mac Gordon in the 1956 episode, "Pay Dirt." In the story line, Gordon is swindled by two men, played by Paul McGuire and Frank Richards,, who sell him a worthless gold mining claim. The film actress Barbara Lang appears as his longsuffering wife, Norma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556697/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Pay Dirt on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref> Jackson also played Asa Mercer, who recruits brides from the East to become wives of settlers in [[Seattle]], [[Washington]] State, in the 1957 episode "Mercer Girl." The women travel to the Northwest via ship. Norma Ward played Annie Stephens, Mercer's romantic interest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556673/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=Mercer Girl on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|access-date=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

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* Bradford Jackson (1928–2009) was cast as the Boston greenhorn Mac Gordon in the 1956 episode, "Pay Dirt." In the story line, Gordon is swindled by two men, played by Paul McGuire and Frank Richards, who sell him a worthless gold mining claim. The film actress Barbara Lang appears as his longsuffering wife, Norma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556697/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Pay Dirt on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref> Jackson also played Asa Mercer, who recruits brides from the East to become wives of settlers in [[Seattle]], [[Washington]] State, in the 1957 episode "Mercer Girl." The women travel to the Northwest via ship. Norma Ward played Annie Stephens, Mercer's romantic interest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556673/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=Mercer Girl on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|access-date=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

* Sherry Jackson in the 1966 episode, "Lady of the Plains," portrayed Katherine "Kate" Turner, a young woman from [[Boston]] who takes over a wagon train after the death of the trailmaster. DeForest Kelley played a gambler, Elliott Webster, who falls in love with Kate despite their age difference and the fact that she is engaged to marry once the wagon train reaches [[Salt Lake City]], Utah.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556650/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Lady of the Plains on ''Death Valley Days''|date=May 5, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 12, 2015}}</ref>

* Vivi Janiss appeared as Deliah Murtaugh in the 1953 episode, "Dear Teacher," with Donna Corcoran, as her daughter, Gladys.

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* Russell Johnson appeared as Sgt. Tate, part of Sam Houston's army, in the 1962 episode, "Davy's Friend."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556586/ |title= Davy's Friend |publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=November 14, 1962 |accessdate=July 6, 2017}}</ref> He also played Matthew Reynolds, a U.S. attorney, opposing James Reavis, the so-called "Baron of Arizona" (played by host Robert Taylor), in the 1968 episode, “The Pieces of the Puzzle."<ref name="autogenerated1968">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0951618/|title= The Pieces of the Puzzle |publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date= May 11, 1968 |accessdate=July 6, 2017}}</ref>

* I. Stanford Jolley, who appeared five times on the series, was cast as J.V. Langley in "The Kickapoo Run" (1954), as Colby in "California's First Ice Man" (1955), as a guide in "California Gold Rush in Reverse" (1957), and as Bart Taylor in his final credited role in the series in "Eruption at Volcano" (1959).

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* Gordon Jones and Jane Frazee were cast as rival cafe owners Steve Bassett and Melodie Marshall in a western mining town in the 1953 episode, "The Rival Hash Houses." The arrangement leads to romance between the two as gold is discovered on a plot of land Melodie purchased from Steve to raise chickens. The episode also features Minerva Urecal and [[William Fawcett ]] as Mattie and Flapjack Kelly, who work, respectively for Melodie and Steve.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556868/?ref_=ttep_ep3|title=The Rival Hash Houses on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Database|accessdate=December 20, 2018}}</ref>

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* Gordon Jones and Jane Frazee were cast as rival cafe owners Steve Bassett and Melodie Marshall in a western mining town in the 1953 episode, "The Rival Hash Houses." The arrangement leads to romance between the two as gold is discovered on a plot of land Melodie purchased from Steve to raise chickens. The episode also features Minerva Urecal and [[William Fawcett]] as Mattie and Flapjack Kelly, who work, respectively for Melodie and Steve.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556868/?ref_=ttep_ep3|title=The Rival Hash Houses on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Database|accessdate=December 20, 2018}}</ref>

* Morgan Jones was cast in the 1955 episode, "The Crystal Gazer," in the historical role of Sandy Bowers, a Nevada mining magnate. Natalie Norwick (1923–2007) portrayed Eilley Bowers who consults a crystal ball to guide her decisions and helps Sandy to locate a gold strike. The two marry, spend recklessly on a world tour, and build the still-standing Bowers Mansion, located between Reno, and Carson City, Nevada. Bowers died early in life of a lung disease associated with miners, and Eilley was left with many unpaid bills for which she was responsible. She had not foreseen that their fortune would run dry so quickly.<ref>{{cite web|url=

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* Bruce Kay, who appeared only five times on screen between 1955 and 1958, played the half-Sioux scout Frank Grouard in the 1958 episode, "The Greatest Scout of All." Frank Richards (1909–1992) was cast as Sitting Bull. In the story line, Grouard is caught in a culture clash but becomes a highly regarded scout for the United States Army, one dispatched on the toughest of assignments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556798/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_21|title=The Greatest Scout of All on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 1, 2018}}</ref>

* Howard Keel]was cast as [iamond Jim Brady in a 1963 episode of the same name. In the story line, while traveling by train in Texas, Brady accepts a nearly impossible wager that he can sell $100,000 worth of barbed wire to area ranchers who oppose such fencing without leaving the train.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556597/?ref_=ttep_ep8|title=Diamond Jim Brady on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 8, 2018}}</ref>

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* DeForest Kelley was cast as Shad Cullen, with William Schallert as Dave Meiser and Dick Foran as Ferguson, in the 1962 episode, "The Breaking Point." In the story line, Meiser suspects that a friend is trying to swindle him out of a valuable mine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556768/?ref_=ttep_ep10|title=The Breaking Point on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref> In 1963, he was cast as Civil War wounded warrior Clint Rogers. In the story line, gang leader Jeb Daley (Joseph Ruskin), earns a "Coffin for a Coward" when he murders Rogers' foster father. Rogers orders the coffin to galvanize support among townspeople of Aurora, Nevada , plagued by division over the continuing war.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556581/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Coffin for a Coward on ''Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 11, 2019}}</ref> Kelley subsequently played a convict, Martin, in the 1965 episode "Devil's Gate," with Jim Davis, and he was the gambler Elliott Webster in the 1966 episode, "The Lady of the Plains," with Sherry Jackson.

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* DeForest Kelley was cast as Shad Cullen, with William Schallert as Dave Meiser and Dick Foran as Ferguson, in the 1962 episode, "The Breaking Point." In the story line, Meiser suspects that a friend is trying to swindle him out of a valuable mine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556768/?ref_=ttep_ep10|title=The Breaking Point on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref> In 1963, he was cast as Civil War wounded warrior Clint Rogers. In the story line, gang leader Jeb Daley (Joseph Ruskin), earns a "Coffin for a Coward" when he murders Rogers' foster father. Rogers orders the coffin to galvanize support among townspeople of Aurora, Nevada, plagued by division over the continuing war.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556581/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Coffin for a Coward on ''Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 11, 2019}}</ref> Kelley subsequently played a convict, Martin, in the 1965 episode "Devil's Gate," with Jim Davis, and he was the gambler Elliott Webster in the 1966 episode, "The Lady of the Plains," with Sherry Jackson.

* Don Kennedy (born 1920) was cast in the lead role of Snowshoe Thompson, also the title of the 1954 episode. In the story line, while Thompson used home-made snowshoes to carry the mail across the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains into the various California mining camps. Thompson is considered the "father of California skiing."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556736/|title=Snowshoe Thompson on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Don Kent (1911–1978) played William Bottle in the 1956 episode, "Bill Bottle's Birthday." In the story line, Bottle nets $100,000 from the sale of a gold claim. He places advertisements in major newspapers inviting his Bottle relatives to attend a family reunion times with his birthday. While various "relatives" come to the party, they are imposters, but Bottle treats them warmly as if they were family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556559/?ref_=ttep_ep9|title=Bill Bottle's Birthday on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 23, 2018}}</ref>

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* Stanley Lachman played United States Army Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale in two 1957 episodes, "The Camel Train" and "The California Gold Rush in Reverse." In the former, Beale is instructed by United States Secretary of War [[Jefferson Davis]] to conduct an experiment with the use of [[camel]]s in the deserts of the American Southwest. William "Red" Reynolds (1927–1981) was cast as mountain man Kit Carson. In the second episode, Beale attempts to be the first to return East with a sample of newly discovered California gold, but he must escape Mexican bandits to do so.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480051/?ref_=tt_cl_t1|title=Stanley Lachman|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

* Gil Lasky played John Studebaker in the 1959 episode, "Wheelbarrow Johnny." In the story line, young Studebaker fails at gold mining because con men take advantage of him. His talent for making wheelbarrows, however, paves the way for a bright future in the transportation industry. Emile Meyer appeared in this episode as the storekeeper, Sam Dalrymple.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556926/?ref_=ttep_ep7|title=Wheelbarrow Johnny on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 1, 2018}}</ref>

* Harry Lauter, a character actor, appeared seven times on the series, including his portrayal of newspaperman Mel Hardin in "Gold Lake" and in "Wheelbarrow Johnny."

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* Bethel Leslie was cast as Esther Morris in the 1960 episode, "A Woman's Rights." Morris demands justice for her husband's murder at the hands of the McGreevy gang (Bartlett Robinson). With the help of Lucretia Mott (Hope Summers) and Governor Lee (Frank Wilcox), she works successfully in 1869 for the passage of woman's suffrage in the Wyoming Territory and thereafter becomes the first female judge in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556547/|title=A Woman's Rights on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 19, 2019}}</ref>

* Nan Leslie, Robert Lowery and Russell Hicks] appeared in "Whirlwind Courtship" (1953).

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* George J. Lewis was cast as General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the namesake of Vallejo, California, in the 1956 episode, "The Bear Flag," the story of the conflict between newly-arrived Americans and the old Spanish families of California. Robert Tafur played Don Miguel Ruiz, and Don C. Harvey was cast as Ezekiel "Stuttering Zeke" Merritt, who proceeds with plans for the Bear Flag Republic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556761/?ref_=ttep_ep15|title=The Bear Flag on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=January 2, 2019}}</ref>

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* George J. Lewis was cast as General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the namesake of Vallejo, California, in the 1956 episode, "The Bear Flag," the story of the conflict between newly arrived Americans and the old Spanish families of California. Robert Tafur played Don Miguel Ruiz, and Don C. Harvey was cast as Ezekiel "Stuttering Zeke" Merritt, who proceeds with plans for the Bear Flag Republic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556761/?ref_=ttep_ep15|title=The Bear Flag on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=January 2, 2019}}</ref>

* June Lockhart played librarian Ina Coolbrith, the first poet laureate of California, in the 1965 episode, "Magic Locket." In the story line, Coolbrith develops a tenuous friendship with the teen-aged "Dorita Duncan" (Kathy Garver), who becomes the dancer Isadora Duncan. Sean McClory was cast as the poet Joaquin Miller, the author of ''Songs of the Sierras''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556668/combined|title=Magic Locket|date=March 17, 1965|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 22, 2015}}</ref>

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* Jack Lomas (1911–1959) was cast as [[Walter E. Scott]], or ~~[[Walter E. Scott|~~Death Valley Scotty]] in the 1955 episode also entitled "Death Valley Scotty." In the story line, Scotty in 1905 commissioned the "Scott Special," a passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, into a showcase run from Los Angeles to [[Chicago]]. The steam locomotive Santa Fe No. 1010 was used to re-create the record-setting 44-hour railroad run and was reconditioned especially for filming. William Schallert was cast as the historical Albert Mussey Johnson, Scotty's millionaire benefactor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556592/?ref_=ttep_ep9|title=Death Valley Scotty on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 28, 2018}}</ref>

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* Jack Lomas (1911–1959) was cast as Walter E. Scott, or "Death Valley Scotty," in the 1955 episode also entitled "Death Valley Scotty." In the story line, Scotty in 1905 commissioned the "Scott Special," a passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, into a showcase run from Los Angeles to [[Chicago]]. The steam locomotive Santa Fe No. 1010 was used to re-create the record-setting 44-hour railroad run and was reconditioned especially for filming. William Schallert was cast as the historical Albert Mussey Johnson, Scotty's millionaire benefactor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556592/?ref_=ttep_ep9|title=Death Valley Scotty on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 28, 2018}}</ref>

* Britt Lomond was cast as professional gambler Faro Bill, with Diane Brewster as his romantic interest, Grace, in the 1956 episode, "Faro Bill's Layout." Though she objects to Faro Bill's occupation as a faro dealer, Grace she relents after Bill adopts Butch (Gary Hunley), an orphaned relative of Sidewinder (Steve Conte), a card player whom Bill killed in self-defense.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556611/|title=Faro Bill's Layout on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Move Data Base|accessdate=January 2, 2019}}</ref> Lomond also played the Spaniard James Addison Reavis in the 1956 episode, "The Baron of Arizona." Two newspapermen doubt Reavis' claim to millions of acres in the New Mexico Territory, which then included Arizona. Though Reavis' papers seem authentic and date to colonial times, the reporters prove them to be fraudulent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556758/?ref_=ttep_ep3|title=The Baron of Arizona on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 23, 2018}}</ref> In a 1968 episode about Reavis entitled, "The Pieces of the Puzzle," series host Robert Taylor portrayed the lead role, with Russell Johnson as Matthew Reynolds.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0951618/|title=The Pieces of the Puzzle on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 3, 2018}}</ref>

* Dayton Lummis portrayed New Mexico Territorial Governor Lew Wallace in "Shadows on the Window" (1960), with Martin Braddock as Billy the Kid and [atherine Warren as Wallace's wife, Susan. Wallace manages to write the biblical novel ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' despite threats to his life and worries for his family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556727/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title="Shadows on the Window" on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 23, 2019}}</ref> In another 1960 episode, "City of Widows," Lummis played a mine owner, John De La Mar, who faces a crisis in his namesake community, after a number of his miners suddenly die of silicone poisoning.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556577/|title=City of Widows on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 28, 2019}}</ref>

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* Tony Martin, the singer, was cast as Amadeo Giannini in the 1962 episode, "The Unshakeable Man," a dramatization of the establishment of the Bank of America. The story line focuses on Giannini saving his bank from the impact of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake by investing in his fellow citizens during the disaster and turning it into the largest financial institution in the world. The episode also starred Parley Baer as Crowder, a traditional bank president.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556891/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=The Unshakeable Man on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 17, 2018}}</ref>

* Daria Massey plays newlywed Janet Gee in the 1957 episode, "The Rosebush of Tombstone," the story of the largest rose bush in the United States established in Tombstone, Arizona. A native of [[Scotland]], Janet moves with her husband to Tombstone, Arizona, where she befriends rough women and cares for a homeless Indian boy. A rosebush from her mother lifts her spirits. Almira Sessions is cast in this episode as shrewd businesswoman Nellie Cashman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556870/?ref_=ttep_ep5|title=The Rosebush of Tombstone on ''D''}}</ref>

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* Jack Mather among five appearances on ''Death Valley Days'', played legendary cattleman Charles Goodnight in the 1959 episode, "Old Blue." The story focuses on Goodnight's lead steer, Old Blue, who is stolen and thereafter adopted as a family pet. Myron Healey was cast in this episode as Red Snell and Jeanne Bates as Helen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556687/?ref_=ttep_ep15|title=Old Blue on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 1, 2018}}</ref>

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* Jack Mather among five appearances on ''Death Valley Days'', played legendary cattleman [[Charles Goodnight]] in the 1959 episode, "Old Blue." The story focuses on Goodnight's lead steer, Old Blue, who is stolen and thereafter adopted as a family pet. Myron Healey was cast in this episode as Red Snell and Jeanne Bates as Helen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556687/?ref_=ttep_ep15|title=Old Blue on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 1, 2018}}</ref>

* Carole Mathews was cast as Belle Starr in the 1961 episode, "A Bullet for the D.A." In the story line, Belle unsuccessfully plots the revenge assassination of United States Attorney W. H. H. Clayton (Don Haggerty) during a Wild West show in [[Fort Smith, Arkansas|Fort Smith]], Arkansas. William Thourlby was cast as Belle's husband, Sam Starr, and Carlyle Mitchell, in his penultimate acting role as "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker, under whom Clayton served. The episode reveals that attorney Clayton secretly taught Sam Starr how to read.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556533/?ref_=ttep_ep24|title=A Bullet for the D.A. on ''Death Valley Days''|accessdate=November 13, 2020}}</ref>

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*Hedley Mattingly was cast as the [[photographer]] Eadweard Muybridge in the 1964 episode "The $25,000 Wager." In the story line, former Governor Leland Stanford, played by Harry Holcombe(1906–1987), a race-horse owner, hires Muybridge, to determine by multiple cameras whether all four legs of a horse are briefly off the ground while trotting. Diane Brewster was cast as Muybridge's wife, Flora.~~<ref>~~ Ken Mayer was cast as Marshal Hobe Martin in the 1962 episode "Girl with a Gun." In the story line, an outlaw's vengeful daughter, Jennie Metcalf (Anne Helm), joins her father's gang after he is justifiably killed in a showdown with the marshal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556622/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Girl with a Gun on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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*Hedley Mattingly was cast as the [[photographer]] Eadweard Muybridge in the 1964 episode "The $25,000 Wager." In the story line, former Governor Leland Stanford, played by Harry Holcombe (1906–1987), a race-horse owner, hires Muybridge, to determine by multiple cameras whether all four legs of a horse are briefly off the ground while trotting. Diane Brewster was cast as Muybridge's wife, Flora. Ken Mayer was cast as Marshal Hobe Martin in the 1962 episode "Girl with a Gun." In the story line, an outlaw's vengeful daughter, Jennie Metcalf (Anne Helm), joins her father's gang after he is justifiably killed in a showdown with the marshal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556622/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=Girl with a Gun on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

*Lin McCarthy (1918–2002) was cast as Dr. Tom Bell in the 1959 episode "The Scalpel and the Gun," the story of a frontier doctor whose indifference contributed to the death of a woman. Faced with disdain from his fellow settlers, he joins an outlaw gang and ultimately is hanged.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556876/|title=The Scalpel and the Gun on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 23, 2019}}</ref>

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*Patty McCormack]appeared as young Virginia Reed in the 1960 episode, "A Girl Called Virginia," with John Anderson]as her stepfather, James F. Reed. Edward Platt was cast as Frank Graves. In the story line, the Donner Party crosses the Sierra Nevadas, but the Reeds are banished after a dispute ends in a death. Virginia proves helpful beyond her years as the family faces great hardship while headed to Sutter's Fort, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556538/|title=A Girl Called Virginia on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 10, 2018}}</ref>

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*Patty McCormack, the child star of ''[[Peck's Bad Girl]],'' appeared as young Virginia Reed in the 1960 episode, "A Girl Called Virginia," with John Anderson as her stepfather, James F. Reed. Edward Platt was cast as Frank Graves. In the story line, the Donner Party crosses the Sierra Nevadas, but the Reeds are banished after a dispute ends in a death. Virginia proves helpful beyond her years as the family faces great hardship while headed to Sutter's Fort, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556538/|title=A Girl Called Virginia on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 10, 2018}}</ref>

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* ~~Darren McGavin was cast as apothecary Zacharias Gurney in the 1961 episode, "The Stolen City." When he is being cheated out of his store in San Francisco, Gurney is enlisted by future~~ [[~~United States Secretary of War]] [[Edwin Stanton]~~] ~~(Harlan Warde] to stop the theft. He consults Tarbula (Vladimir Sokoloff~~], the maker of the government seals which may hold a clue to the fraud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556880/|title=The Stolen City on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 30, 2018}}</ref>

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* [[Ann McCrea]] was cast in three episodes, including Melinda Pratt in "Mr. Bigfoot" (1956) and "Pirates of San Francisco" (1960).

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* Ann McCrea was cast in three episodes, including Melinda Pratt in "Mr. Bigfoot" (1956) and "Pirates of San Francisco" (1960).

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* Jody McCrea was cast as the historical Lieutenant [[John J. Pershing]] in the 1962 episode, "To Walk with Greatness." In the story line, Lt. Pershing defeats his sergeant Robert J. Wilke in a fight, gaining the respect of his troop which he needs when pursuing three outlaws (chiefly Bing Russell as Jake Conlan) who endanger a treaty with the [[Zuni]] headed by Nataha, Eugene Iglesias. Frank Ferguson was cast as Colonel Carr and Yvonne Craig as Emma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556911/?ref_=ttep_ep22|title=To Walk with Greatness on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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* Jody McCrea was cast as the historical Lieutenant [[John J. Pershing]] in the 1962 episode, "To Walk with Greatness." In the story line, Lt. Pershing defeats his sergeant Robert J. Wilke in a fight, gaining the respect of his troop which he needs when pursuing three outlaws (chiefly Bing Russell as Jake Conlan) who endanger a treaty with the [[Zuni]] headed by Nataha, Eugene Iglesias. Frank Ferguson was cast as Colonel Carr and [[Yvonne Craig]] as Emma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556911/?ref_=ttep_ep22|title=To Walk with Greatness on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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* Darren McGavin was cast as apothecary Zacharias Gurney in the 1961 episode, "The Stolen City." When he is being cheated out of his store in San Francisco, Gurney is enlisted by future United States Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Harlan Warde] to stop the theft. He consults Tarbula (Vladimir Sokoloff], the maker of the government seals which may hold a clue to the fraud.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556880/|title=The Stolen City on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 30, 2018}}</ref>

* Tim McIntire in the 1965 episode, "The Lawless Have Laws," played Lorenz Oatman, a young man who obtains the help of an Army officer, Lieutenant Colonel Burke (Ronald Reagan), in the search for his long lost sister, Olive Oatman](Shary Marshall) from whom he was separated five years earlier when the Apache killed their parents in a raid.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556827/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Lawless Have Laws on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 26, 2015}}</ref>

* David McLean was cast as frontiersman Kit Carson in the 1963 episode, "Stubborn Mule Hill." Charles Bateman was cast as Carson's friend, the famous Army Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald Beale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556747/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=Stubborn Mule Hill on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 10, 2018}}</ref> McLean also appeared as [[Stephen F. Austin]] in the 1964 episode "A Book of Spanish Grammar." In the story line, Austin travels to [[Mexico City]] to purchase land in colonial Texas to sell to future settlers. His traveling companion, Valdez ([[Rodolfo Acosta]]), wonders why Austin risks so much to help strangers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556531/?ref_=ttep_ep11|title=A Book of Spanish Grammar on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 18, 2018}}</ref>

* Tyler McVey appeared four times, including the role of a priest in the 1962 episode, "Abel Duncan's Dying Wish," and in the 1969 segment, "The Oldest Outlaw."

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*Don Megowan and Douglas Henderson were cast as prospectors "Big" Charlie Loomis and "Little" Charlie Porter, respectively, who strike it rich in the 1954 episode, "To Big Charlie from Little Charlie." "Little" Charlie since became a small-town shopkeeper; "Big" Charlie," an eastern business mogul. After many years apart, "Little Charlie" sent "Big Charlie" a [[Christmas ~~card~~]], which reminds him of still valued friendships from the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556910/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt|title=To Big Charlie from Little Charlie on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=July 12, 2019}}</ref>

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* Don Megowan and Douglas Henderson were cast as prospectors "Big" Charlie Loomis and "Little" Charlie Porter, respectively, who strike it rich in the 1954 episode, "To Big Charlie from Little Charlie." "Little" Charlie since became a small-town shopkeeper; "Big" Charlie," an eastern business mogul. After many years apart, "Little Charlie" sent "Big Charlie" a [[Christmas]] card, which reminds him of still valued friendships from the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556910/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt|title=To Big Charlie from Little Charlie on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=July 12, 2019}}</ref>

* Sam Melville was cast as Indian agent John Clum in the 1970 episode, "Clum's Constabulary." In the story line, Clum recruits an elite team of Apaches to assist the U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest but faces opposition within the white community. Tris Coffin was cast as Captain Loren Phillips and John Considine as Lago.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556579/?ref_=ttep_ep23|title=Clum's Constabulary on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 17, 2018}}</ref>

* Denny Miller played Gustaf Olaffson in the 1968 episode, "Britta Goes Home." In the story line, Gustaf awaits the arrival of his [[Sweden|Swedish]] bride, Britta (Susanne Cramer). While headed to Gustaf's sod house, Britta becomes disillusioned about her future. Then a visit with other homesteaders help her overcome her fear.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959045/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt|title=Britta Goes Home on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 19, 2018}}</ref>

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* Roger Mobley was cast as Matt Denby, Jr., in the 1960 episode, "The Madstone." In the story line, young Denby is bitten by a rabid skunk and must travel 150 miles alone to get access to a madstone]owned by his estranged grandfather, Caleb Reese (George Macready), a method that was then the only treatment possible for rabies. Myron Healey played Denby's father, whose wife stays behind when he moves to start a new ranch in New Mexico Territory. Denby, Sr., is alienated from the boy's maternal grandfather but makes amends so the family can remain in Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556837/|title=The Madstone on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=October 1, 2018}}</ref>

* Ricardo Montalbán played Joaquin Murrieta in the 1960 episode, "Eagle in the Rocks." Others cast in the episode were Karl Swenson, Lisa Gaye, and Jack Kruschen.

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* Alvy Moore, prior to his role as county agent] Hank Kimball on CBS's ''Green Acres'' situation comedy, played in the 1962 episode, "The Grass Man," the [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-American botanist |David Douglas, for whom the[Douglas fir tree is named. Keenan Wynn co-starred as Douglas' friend, Josh Tavers. Iron Eyes Cody played an Indian chief who threatens to kill Douglas and Tavers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556626/|title=The Grass Man in Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=November 13, 1962|accessdate=August 2, 2015}}</ref>

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* Alvy Moore, prior to his role as the bumbling county agent Hank Kimball on CBS's ''Green Acres'' situation comedy, played in the 1962 episode, "The Grass Man," the [[Switzerland|Swiss]]-American botanist |David Douglas, for whom the[Douglas fir tree is named. Keenan Wynn co-starred as Douglas' friend, Josh Tavers. Iron Eyes Cody played an Indian chief who threatens to kill Douglas and Tavers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556626/|title=The Grass Man in Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=November 13, 1962|accessdate=August 2, 2015}}</ref>

* Erin Moran was cast, pre-''Happy Days'', at the age of nine as Mary Elizabeth Foster in the 1969 episode, "The Tenderfoot," the story of three orphans in the West given rights to a gold mine. Mitch Vogel played her middle brother, Jerry Ray Foster; Kevin Burchett, their older brother, Billy Earl Foster, and Chubby Johnson portrayed the prospector Jake.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556885/|title=The Tenderfoot on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 12, 2018}}</ref>

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* Roland Morris (1922–1986) was cast as journalist Sam Swift in the 1954 episode, "Mr. Godiva". In the story line, Swift must earn a fortune in three days to gain permission to marry Marjorie Delafield (Yvonne Crossley in her only credited acting role), the daughter of business mogul Marcus Delafield ([[Emile Meyer]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556681/|title=Mr. Godiva on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=April 30, 2019}}</ref>

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* Roland Morris (1922–1986) was cast as journalist Sam Swift in the 1954 episode, "Mr. Godiva". In the story line, Swift must earn a fortune in three days to gain permission to marry Marjorie Delafield (Yvonne Crossley in her only credited acting role), the daughter of business mogul Marcus Delafield (Emile Meyer).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556681/|title=Mr. Godiva on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=April 30, 2019}}</ref>

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* Byron Morrow made a cameo appearance as [[Mormons|Mormon]] figure [[Brigham Young]] in the 1966 episode, "An Organ for Brother Brigham." In the story line, the organ crafted and guided to Salt Lake City by Joseph Harris Ridges (1827–1914) of Australia, played by [[Hedley Mattingly]], becomes mired in [[sand]]. [[Morgan Woodward]], as wagon master Luke Winner, feels compelled to jettison the instrument until Ridges finds solid rock under the sand.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556554/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_115|title=An Organ for Brother Brigham on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=April 28, 1966|accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref>

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* Byron Morrow made a cameo appearance as [[Mormons|Mormon]] figure [[Brigham Young]] in the 1966 episode, "An Organ for Brother Brigham." In the story line, the organ crafted and guided to Salt Lake City by Joseph Harris Ridges (1827–1914) of Australia, played by Hedley Mattingly, becomes mired in [[sand]]. Morgan Woodward, as wagon master Luke Winner, feels compelled to jettison the instrument until Ridges finds solid rock under the sand.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556554/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_115|title=An Organ for Brother Brigham on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=April 28, 1966|accessdate=September 10, 2015}}</ref>

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* Vic Morrow was cast as soldier/engineer Lt. Robert Benson in the 1962 episode, "A Matter of Honor." The story focus. Howard Petrie, Trevor Bardette, and Meg Wyllie were cast as ~~Captain~~ and Mrs. Warner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556542/|title=A Matter of Honor on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie ~~Database~~|accessdate=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

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* Vic Morrow was cast as soldier/engineer Lt. Robert Benson in the 1962 episode, "A Matter of Honor." The story focus. Howard Petrie, Trevor Bardette, and Meg Wyllie were cast as captain and Mrs. Warner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556542/|title=A Matter of Honor on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

*Ken Murray was cast as aging gold prospector Dave Eldridge, with Dick Sargent as his tenderfoot junior partner, Cliff Streeter, in the 1960 episode, "Gamble with Death." In the story line, Streeter must leave a wounded Eldridge behind in the desert to seek help when their supplies go missing. Eldridge found a gold strike but did not live to claim it. [[Tom Greenway]] played a sheriff in this episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556620/?ref_=ttep_ep6|title=Gamble with Death on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 30, 2018}}</ref> Murray subsequently played Whipsaw, the operator of a Utah Territory stagecoac] depot, in the 1964 episode, "Little Cayuse." In the story line, Whipsaw and his partner in 1862 take in a Cayuse se]] orphan (Larry Domasin), who demonstrates his loyalty to the men during an Indian attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556658/|title=Little Cayuse|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 30, 2018}}</ref>

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* Anna Navarro (1933–2006) portrayed 17-year-old Maria in the 1956 episode, "The Hidden Treasure of Cucamonga." In the story line, Maria upon the sudden death of her father, becomes mistress of a large California ranch. After she marries a persistent suitor, Don Pedro (Richard Gilden), a dream leads her to the discovery of a fortune stashed away by her father in the wall of her bedroom. [[Than Wyenn]] played a fellow hacienda owner who had entrusted his own money to Maria's father.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556805/?ref_=ttep_ep17|title=The Hidden Treasure of Cucamonga on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

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* Anna Navarro (1933–2006) portrayed 17-year-old Maria in the 1956 episode, "The Hidden Treasure of Cucamonga." In the story line, Maria upon the sudden death of her father, becomes mistress of a large California ranch. After she marries a persistent suitor, Don Pedro (Richard Gilden), a dream leads her to the discovery of a fortune stashed away by her father in the wall of her bedroom. Than Wyenn played a fellow hacienda owner who had entrusted his own money to Maria's father.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556805/?ref_=ttep_ep17|title=The Hidden Treasure of Cucamonga on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

* Howard Negley (1898–1983) played U.S. Senator William Morris Stewart of Nevada in the 1953 episod, "The Bandits of Panamint." In the story line, Stewart enters into an agreement to gain pardons for two bandits, played by Rick Vallin and Glase Lohmond, who accidentally stumble upon a rich silver strike. Stewart, however gains ownership of the mine. Sheila Ryan and Gloria Winters]played young women with romantic interests in the outlaws.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0946052/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5|title=The Bandits of Panamint on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 12, 2019}}</ref> Negley played another historical role in 1953 as John Bidwell in "The Lady with the Blue Silk Umbrella." He was cast with Kathleen Case as Helen Crosby, the woman who hides California statehood papers in her umbrella to keep them out of the reach of pursuing ruffians.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556822/?ref_=ttep_ep4|title=The Lady with the Blue Silk Umbrella on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 3, 2019}}</ref>

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*Ed Nelson was cast in the 1962 episode, "Fort Bowie: Urgent," as Frank Girard, an escaped convict in 1895 who heads to Fort Bowie, Arizona Territory, with the intent of murderously disrupting a wedding. The recently-invented [[telegraph]] (operated by Dub Taylor's character) that can stop Girard is being monopolized for that wedding.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556617/?ref_=ttep_ep19|title=Fort Bowie: Urgent on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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*Ed Nelson was cast in the 1962 episode, "Fort Bowie: Urgent," as Frank Girard, an escaped convict in 1895 who heads to Fort Bowie, Arizona Territory, with the intent of murderously disrupting a wedding. The recently invented [[telegraph]] (operated by Dub Taylor's character) that can stop Girard is being monopolized for that wedding.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556617/?ref_=ttep_ep19|title=Fort Bowie: Urgent on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

*Leonard Nimoy played [ellow Bear in "The Journey" (1965), with Wayne Rogers as Richard Henry Pratt and Robert J. Wilke as Sergeant Wilks, two cavalry officers who disagree on how to handle Indian prisoners.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556815/?ref_=tt_ep_pr|title=The Journey on ''Death Valley Days''|date=March 29, 1965|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2015}}</ref>

* Jay Novello as Padre Rodriguez is asked to "Let my People Go" (1967), a reference to the biblical [[Moses]]. In this story, Pacomino (Michael Keep) leads the enslaved tribe, the Chumash. But Mariano (Valentin de Vargas) challenges Pacomio's leadership.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556656/?ref_=tt_ep_pr|title=Let my People Go on ''Death Valley Days''|date=October 21, 1967|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=January 24, 2019}}</ref>

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*Michael Pate was cast as the Navaho Two Horses in the 1962 episode, "Experiment in Fear." In the story line, Two Horses (one of the first native police who were then legally unarmed) must use [[psychology]] when he is captured by the thieves he was sent to reconnoiter with Barney Phillips]as the Indian agent who sends him out.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959696/?ref_=ttep_ep3|title=Experiment in Fear on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Dennis Patrick was cast as Patrick O'Dell in the 1958 episode, "The Red Flannel Shirt." O'Dell believes his special shirt will bring him luck in mining. Ewing Mitchell was cast as Fred Gerlock, a greedy mine owner.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556860/|title=The Red Flannel Shirt on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 26, 2019}}</ref>

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* Julie Parrish appeared as Mariana Jaramilio in the 1967 episode, "Along Came Mariana," the story of the unraveling of the ~~[[peon]]age~~ labor system in the New Mexico Territory. Carlos Romero played Jose de la Cruz Romero.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556552/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Along Came Mariana on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=May 11, 1967|accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref>

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* Julie Parrish appeared as Mariana Jaramilio in the 1967 episode, "Along Came Mariana," the story of the unraveling of the peonage labor system in the New Mexico Territory. Carlos Romero played Jose de la Cruz Romero.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556552/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Along Came Mariana on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=May 11, 1967|accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref>

* Hank Patterson made nine appearances, including "The Mule Mail," "Ten Feet of Nothing," "Husband Pro-Tem," and "The Blonde King."

* George Paulsin (born July 12, 1949) made his screen appearance as a youthful Joaquin Miller in the series finale, "Early Candle Lighten." In the story line, a cook at a gold camp in the Arizona Territory faces [[hanging]] for stealing nuggets from the miners. His assistant, "Nat Miller," played by Paulsin, thinks he can save the cook's life by bringing the man's sister from [[Tucson]]. It was at this gold camp that Miller perfected his penchant for western poetry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0667335/?ref_=tt_cl_t4|title=George Paulsin|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 12, 2018}}</ref>

* Jesse Pearson played Henry Windsor in the 1966 episode, "The Courtship of Carrie Huntington," set in the future Washington State. In the story line, Windsor is hired to take Carrie (Sue Randall) to her sister's wedding after she misses the stagecoach. Henry and Carrie engage in a mock wedding, but on the return trip, Henry wins her over after they are held by Indians, and Carrie nurses a sick child to health. Helen Kleeb plays Carrie's mother, with Dub Taylor as a station agent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556582/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Courtship of Carrie Huntington|date=March 17, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 8, 2015}}</ref> In the 1970 episode, "The Mezcla Man," Pearson played Jess Ivy, who would propose marriage to a young woman, Sarah Ewing (Karen Carlson), were he on a sound financial footing. He then looks for hidden gold.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556846/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Mezcla Man|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=January 2, 1970|accessdate=July 21, 2015}}</ref>

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* Larry Pennell, cast as detective Romer Maxwell, tries to catch Kate Hanson (Virginia Christine) for [[smuggling]] high-grade ore in the 1960 episode, "Queen of the High-Graders." Maxwell falls in love with Hanson's daughter Sarah (Wanda Shannon). Will Wright played mine owner Jim Barker, who hired Maxwell on the mission.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556711/?ref_=ttep_ep27|title=Queen of the High-Graders on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base]]|accessdate=December 30, 2018}}</ref>

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* Larry Pennell, cast as detective Romer Maxwell, tries to catch Kate Hanson (Virginia Christine) for [[smuggling]] high-grade ore in the 1960 episode, "Queen of the High-Graders." Maxwell falls in love with Hanson's daughter Sarah (Wanda Shannon). Will Wright played mine owner Jim Barker, who hired Maxwell on the mission.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556711/?ref_=ttep_ep27|title=Queen of the High-Graders on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 30, 2018}}</ref>

* Gil Peterson and Susan Seaforth Hayes appeared as Jim Otis and his wife, Martha, in the 1967 episode, "Solid Foundation." In the story line, Otis has virtually abandoned his dream of finding a gold strike but instead encounters an unexpected bonanza in silver.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556737/|title=Solid Foundation on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=[[Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 13, 2015}}</ref>

* Lee Philips was cast as the compassionate young Lieutenant Leonard Wood in the 1960 episode, "The White Healer." When a deadly illness breaks out in the Arizona Territory among the Apache, Wood is willing to treat the Indians once Geronimo, played by Joe Bassett (1910–1997), surrenders to the [[United States Army]]. Harry Holcombe (1906–1987) was cast as General Nelson A. Miles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556899/|title=The White Healer on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 14, 2018}}</ref>

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* Barney Phillips was cast as General Winfield Scott Hancock in the 1962 episode, "The Truth Teller," a study of the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty. Investigative reporter Henry Morton Stanley ([d Kemmer) arrives at Fort Larned, Kansas, to assess Hancock's effort to avoid war on the frontier and helps Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Colson long after Guy Madison played Hickok in a weekly syndicated series) uncover a racist conspiracy to murder ~~native~~ Americans to steal their land, .<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556889/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=The Truth Teller on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 17, 2018}}</ref>

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* Barney Phillips was cast as General Winfield Scott Hancock in the 1962 episode, "The Truth Teller," a study of the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty. Investigative reporter Henry Morton Stanley ([d Kemmer) arrives at Fort Larned, Kansas, to assess Hancock's effort to avoid war on the frontier and helps Wild Bill Hickok (Charles Colson) long after Guy Madison played Hickok in a weekly syndicated series) uncover a racist conspiracy to murder Native Americans to steal their land, .<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556889/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=The Truth Teller on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 17, 2018}}</ref>

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* John M. Pickard appeared ten times on the series. He was cast as Silas St. John, a particularly skilled stagecoach driver in the 1958 episode, "The Jackass Mail." St. John carries passengers and the mail on the [[San Antonio]]-[[San Diego]] Mail Line (1857–1861), better known as the "Jackass Mail." He maintains good relations with the Maricopa Indians and trains his mules so that they will work only for him. In the story line, he picks up a dishonest couple, Sam and Lita Walton (Frank Gerstle and Maura Murphy), who steal treasures from Indian graves and threaten the peace on the mail route.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556813/|title=The Jackass Mail on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=~~January 6~~, ~~2019~~}}</ref> Pickard ~~also~~ played ~~Sheriff McKittrick in "The Resurrection~~ of ~~Deadwood Dick"~~ (~~1966~~) ~~and rancher Lafe Ellsworth~~ in ~~"The Other Cheek" (1968)~~.

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* John M. Pickard appeared ten times on the series. He was cast as Silas St. John, a particularly skilled stagecoach driver in the 1958 episode, "The Jackass Mail." St. John carries passengers and the mail on the [[San Antonio]]-[[San Diego]] Mail Line (1857–1861), better known as the "Jackass Mail." He maintains good relations with the Maricopa Indians and trains his mules so that they will work only for him. In the story line, he picks up a dishonest couple, Sam and Lita Walton (Frank Gerstle and Maura Murphy), who steal treasures from Indian graves and threaten the peace on the mail route.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556813/|title=The Jackass Mail on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 14, 2020}}</ref> In "Feud at Dome Rock," Pickard played Jesse Blount, who has filed a rival mining claim to that of Fred Curry (Norman Pabst). The two seem headed to gunplay. Hope Summers was cast in this episode as Ruth Pickford.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556612/|title=Feud at Dome Rock|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 14, 2020}}</ref>

* Phillip Pine played Kit Carson, with Michael Pate as scout Frenchy Godey in the [[John C. Fremont]] (Richard Simmons) expedition in the 1966 episode, "Samaritans, Mountain Style." In the story line, Carson and Gody stop to help a settler in dire straits.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556720/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Samaritans, Mountain Style on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=October 27, 1966|accessdate=May 31, 2015}}</ref> Pine, Pate, and Simmons appeared shortly thereafter with Charles Bateman and Don Keefer in another ''Death Valley Days'' episode, "The Hero of Apache Pass."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556804/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Hero of Apache Pass on ''Death Valley Days''|date=December 24, 1966|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 1, 2015}}</ref>

* [[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>

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* 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>

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* 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''.

*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>

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* Tommy Rettig was cast in the 1962 episode "Davy's Friends" as Joel Walter Robison, a fighter for Texas independence. In the story line, a teenaged Robison, called a "friend" of Davy Crockett whom he wishes to avenge, is given a horse by a farmer George Mitchell for use in the fight, makes a singular contribution and is made a first lieutenant by [[Sam Houston]] (Stephen Chase). Russell Johnson]was cast as Sergeant Tate. After meeting Sam Houston, in April 1836, Robison settles in the capital city of [[Austin]]. Years later, Robison was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. Abel Franco (1922–2000) played the captured General Antonio López de Santa Anna.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556586/|title=Davy's Friend on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 6, 2018}}</ref>

* Alejandro Rey played the bandit Tiburcio Vásquez who had been hounding predatory mine owners/ore transporters such as Kyle, (Leo Gordon), but who owed "The Debt" (1963) to the freight hauler Remi Nadeau.

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* Paul Richards appeared as former prospector and bounty hunter Cash Powers in the 1959 segment, "Somewhere Beyond the Vultures." In the story line, Powers is hired by Elizabeth Hayward (Kathleen Crowley) to find her missing fiancé. Soon Powers develops his own interest in Elizabeth as they find that her fiancé had met foul play and death at the hands of Mort Graves (Frank Ferguson) in a non-existent gold mine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2142860/|title=Somewhere Beyond the Vultures on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=May 16, 2019}}</ref>In 1962, Richards was cast as Dr. Max Richter in the episode "Bloodline." In that episode, despite reactionary opposition, Parley Baer, Dr. Richter seeks to use a blood transfusion to save the life of his ~~patient--the~~ daughter of a king Abraham Sofaer protected by his vizier Ben Wright.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556564/?ref_=ttep_ep25|title=Bloodline on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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* Paul Richards appeared as former prospector and bounty hunter Cash Powers in the 1959 segment, "Somewhere Beyond the Vultures." In the story line, Powers is hired by Elizabeth Hayward (Kathleen Crowley) to find her missing fiancé. Soon Powers develops his own interest in Elizabeth as they find that her fiancé had met foul play and death at the hands of Mort Graves (Frank Ferguson) in a non-existent gold mine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2142860/|title=Somewhere Beyond the Vultures on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=May 16, 2019}}</ref> In 1962, Richards was cast as Dr. Max Richter in the episode "Bloodline." In that episode, despite reactionary opposition, Parley Baer, Dr. Richter seeks to use a blood transfusion to save the life of his patient—the daughter of a king Abraham Sofaer protected by his vizier Ben Wright.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556564/?ref_=ttep_ep25|title=Bloodline on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Host Dale Robertson was cast as the Irish-American postmaster of "The Biggest Little Post Office in the World" (1970), Jack Reardon, based in the now ghost town of Shermantown, Nevada. In a duel of wits, a postal inspector, Wesley Hull (Walter Brooke), comes to Shermantown to determine how Reardon can sell $1,500 worth of stamps per month, when the town has only three hundred residents, many of whom are illiterate. With Tol Avery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556765/?ref_=ttep_ep7|title=The Biggest Little Post Office in the World on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 15, 2018}}</ref>

*Wayne Rogers and Harry Lauter were cast as George and Henry Schmidtlein in the 1960 episode, "Mission to the Mountains." While seeding mountain streams with trout, the Schmidtleins encounter a suspicious gold prospector named Crandel (John Hoyt) and his daughter, Amy (Wendy Wilde), who develops a romantic interest in George.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556678/?ref_=ttep_ep23|title=Mission to the Mountains on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 2, 2018}}</ref> Wayne Rogers also played the historical General Richard Henry Pratt in the 1965 episode "The Journey," the story of two different views on how to treat Native Americans.

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* William Schallert appeared eight times on the series. In 1955, he portrayed [[American Civil War]] [[General]] Jesse Lee Reno in the episode, "Reno." In the story line, two veterans of the [[Mexican War]] who served under Reno (played by Frank Griffin and Stanley Clements), honor him with the naming of Reno, the second-largest city in Nevada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556715/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=Reno on ''Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> He played Confederate terrorist Ellis Higby in "Hang 'Em High," both episodes in 1959. Schallert appeared as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pre-Mark Twain, in the 1962 episode, "The $275,000 Sack of Flour," with James Best as Reuel Colt Gridley]who raised $275,000 by repeatedly auctioning off the same sack of flour to benefit the United States Sanitary Commission headed by Henry Whitney Bellows ([Jon Lormer) and is terrorized by the [[Klu Klux klan]] group the Knights of the Golden Circle..<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769974/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|title=William Schallert|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

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* William Schallert appeared eight times on the series. In 1955, he portrayed [[American Civil War]] [[General]] Jesse Lee Reno in the episode, "Reno." In the story line, two veterans of the [[Mexican War]] who served under Reno (played by Frank Griffin and Stanley Clements), honor him with the naming of Reno, the second-largest city in Nevada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556715/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=Reno on ''Death Valley Days|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 20, 2018}}</ref> He played Confederate terrorist Ellis Higby in "Hang 'Em High," both episodes in 1959. Schallert appeared as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pre-Mark Twain, in the 1962 episode, "The $275,000 Sack of Flour," with James Best as Reuel Colt Gridley]who raised $275,000 by repeatedly auctioning off the same sack of flour to benefit the United States Sanitary Commission headed by Henry Whitney Bellows ([Jon Lormer) and is terrorized by the [[Klu Klux klan]] group the Knights of the Golden Circle.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769974/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|title=William Schallert|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

* Ken Scott was cast in the 1963 episode "The Melancholy Gun" as Johnny Ringo, a gunslinger who despite his mysterious past seeks to lead a more respectable life. However, many want to make their reputations by challenging Ringo's shooting skills. Elizabeth MacRae was cast as his romantic interest, Myra Engles. Denver Pyle played a physician, Harry Lauter the sheriff, and Myron Healey a townsman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556845/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=The Melancholy Gun on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 8, 2018}}</ref> Scott subsequently played Virgil Earp in a 1964 episode, "Trial at Belle's Springs." In that story line, Earp goes undercover to break a [[robbery]] ring run by Berle Wilgus (Lynn Bari). The gang is suspicious when Virgil, using the name "Martin," arrives at their hideout, but he soon finds the information he needs. Patricia Huston (1929–1995) played Marie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556916/?ref_=ttep_ep12|title=Trial at Belle's Springs on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 10, 2018}}</ref>

* Johnny Seven played farmer Carlo Fareli in the 1962 episode, "The Last Shot." In the story line, Carlo buys a farm for the fair price incurring the wrath of the rich town extorsionist real estate mogul; Fareli then eyes a beautiful saloon singer, Della (Grace Lee Whitney), as a wife, angering the bully further .<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556825/fullcredits |title=''The Last Shot on ''Death Valley Days''|accessdate=November 9, 2020}}</ref>

* Harry Shannon was cast as frontier scout Jim Bridger in the 1958 episode, "Old Gabe," referring to a nickname of Bridger's. Ron Hagerthy played Bridger's grown son, Felix. In the story line, the aging Bridger returns home to find his wife has died in childbirth, and Felix is trying to keep their farm despite an unpaid mortgage. Despite his failing eyesight, Bridger sets forth on a last scouting expedition to make peace with the Sioux and thereby raise funds to retire the mortgage. Roy Engel played Colonel Henry B. Carrington.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556688/?ref_=ttep_ep27|title=Old Gabe on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 4, 2018}}</ref>

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* Alex Sharp (1921–2008) was cast as Sheriff Patrick "Pat" Garrett in the 1956 episode, "Pat Garrett's Side of It," referring to the shooting death in New Mexico Territory of the outlaw, [[Billy the Kid]], played by Joel Collins. In the story line, Garrett captures The Kid, who escapes, and then Garrett comes after him at the farmhouse of Pedro Menard "Pete" Maxwell, the father of The Kid's girlfriend. Mack Williams (1907–1965) played General Lew Wallace, and [[Tyler McVey]] was cast as cattle baron John Chisum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556696/?ref_=ttep_ep16|title=Pat Garrett's Side of It on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref> In addition, Sharp appeared as Juan Flaco, anglicized to John Brown, in the 1957 segment, "California's Paul Revere." When the [[Mexican War]] broke out in 1846, enemy Mexican forces besieged an American garrison in Los Angeles under Lieutenant Gillespie (Don C. Harvey). Calling for needed reinforcements, Gillespie sends Brown on what turned out to be a four-day ride to Stockton, then San Francisco, to warn of impending doom and obtain the transport of troops by sea. The ride saved Los Angeles from Mexican occupation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556571/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=California's Paul Revere on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

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* Alex Sharp (1921–2008) was cast as Sheriff Patrick "Pat" Garrett in the 1956 episode, "Pat Garrett's Side of It," referring to the shooting death in New Mexico Territory of the outlaw, [[Billy the Kid]], played by Joel Collins. In the story line, Garrett captures The Kid, who escapes, and then Garrett comes after him at the farmhouse of Pedro Menard "Pete" Maxwell, the father of The Kid's girlfriend. Mack Williams (1907–1965) played General Lew Wallace, and Tyler McVey was cast as cattle baron John Chisum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556696/?ref_=ttep_ep16|title=Pat Garrett's Side of It on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 24, 2018}}</ref> In addition, Sharp appeared as Juan Flaco, anglicized to John Brown, in the 1957 segment, "California's Paul Revere." When the [[Mexican War]] broke out in 1846, enemy Mexican forces besieged an American garrison in Los Angeles under Lieutenant Gillespie (Don C. Harvey). Calling for needed reinforcements, Gillespie sends Brown on what turned out to be a four-day ride to Stockton, then San Francisco, to warn of impending doom and obtain the transport of troops by sea. The ride saved Los Angeles from Mexican occupation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556571/?ref_=ttep_ep2|title=California's Paul Revere on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 25, 2018}}</ref>

* Karen Sharpe played Linda in the 1953 episode, "Claim Jumpin' Jennie," opposite Irene Burton as Jennie and Wallace Ford as Buck Hansen.

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* Richard Simmons played W. Frank Stewart, a [[silver]] mining operator who served from 1876 to 1880 as a state senator for Virginia City in Storey County, Nevada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Research/Publications/NVLegislators/NVLegislators.pdf|title=Nevada legislators, 1861–2015|publisher=leg.state.nv.us|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}</ref> in the 1969 episode entitled, "How to Beat a Badman." In the story line, Stewart is determined to gain at a bargain price a silver claim being worked by two young former outlaws.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959699/?ref_=tt_ep_n|title=How to Beat a Badman|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=March 18, 1969|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}</ref> Simmons also played the historical [[John C. Fremont]] in the 1966 episode, "Samaritans, Mountain Style." In that story line, Fremont maps a trail to the American West, but his scouts, Kit Carson (Phillip Pine) and Frenchy Godey (Michael Pate) come across a man who has lost everything in an Indian raid. They decide to help the man before resuming their jobs. Don Keefer played a newspaperman, Gilpin.<ref ~~name="autogenerated2"~~>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556720/?ref_=ttep_ep19|title=Samaritans, Mountain Style on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 22, 2018}}</ref>

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* Richard Simmons played W. Frank Stewart, a [[silver]] mining operator who served from 1876 to 1880 as a state senator for Virginia City in Storey County, Nevada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Research/Publications/NVLegislators/NVLegislators.pdf|title=Nevada legislators, 1861–2015|publisher=leg.state.nv.us|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}</ref> in the 1969 episode entitled, "How to Beat a Badman." In the story line, Stewart is determined to gain at a bargain price a silver claim being worked by two young former outlaws.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959699/?ref_=tt_ep_n|title=How to Beat a Badman|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=March 18, 1969|accessdate=July 15, 2015}}</ref> Simmons also played the historical [[John C. Fremont]] in the 1966 episode, "Samaritans, Mountain Style." In that story line, Fremont maps a trail to the American West, but his scouts, Kit Carson (Phillip Pine) and Frenchy Godey (Michael Pate) come across a man who has lost everything in an Indian raid. They decide to help the man before resuming their jobs. Don Keefer played a newspaperman, Gilpin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556720/?ref_=ttep_ep19|title=Samaritans, Mountain Style on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 22, 2018}}</ref>

* Penny Singleton was cast as Maggie Franklin in the 1963 episode "The Holy Terror," the story of a family feud and a disputed gold claim. Sharon Farrell played Maggie's daughter, Cara, whom the mother disowns after Cara marries Billy (Tom Simcox).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556807/?ref_=ttep_ep20|title=The Holy Terror on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 11, 2019}}</ref>

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* Tom Skerritt was cast in five episodes, as a youthful Emmett Dalton in "Three Minutes to Eternity" (1963), the story of the double 1892 bank robberies in Coffeyville, Kansas, with Forrest Tucker as Bob Dalton and Jim Davis as Grat Dalton; as Dennis Driscoll in "Honor the Name Dennis Driscoll" (1964); as Patrick Hogan in "The Book" (1965), the story of a young gambler who wins a small fortune at the roulette wheel at a saloon in Calico in San Bernardino County, California, with the help of a [[China|Chinese]] friend, Wong Lee (George Takei). The two soon meet a speedy demise;<ref>{{cite web|url=

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* Tom Skerritt was cast in five episodes, as a youthful Emmett Dalton in "Three Minutes to Eternity" (1963), the story of the double 1892 bank robberies in Coffeyville, Kansas, with Forrest Tucker as Bob Dalton and Jim Davis as Grat Dalton; as Dennis Driscoll in "Honor the Name Dennis Driscoll" (1964); as Patrick Hogan in "The Book" (1965), the story of a young gambler who wins a small fortune at the roulette wheel at a saloon in Calico in San Bernardino County, California, with the help of a [[China|Chinese]] friend, Wong Lee (George Takei). The two soon meet a speedy demise;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556767/|title=The Book|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=October 28, 1965|accessdate=September 1, 2015}}</ref> Skerritt also was cast as a young Roy Bean in "A Sense of Justice" (1966), with Tristram Coffin as his older brother Joshua Bean, set in [[San Diego]], where Joshua was the founding mayor. He also played [[Mark Twain]] in "Ten Day Millionaires" (1968).

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* Hal Smith played the character John Wilson in the 1967 episode "The Man Who Didn't Want Gold."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556839/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=The Man Who Didn't Want Gold, ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=March 1, 1967|accessdate=June 5, 2015}}</ref>

* William Smith was cast as John Richard Parker, the brother of Cynthia Ann Parker, both taken hostage in [[Texas]] by the Comanche, in the 1969 episode, "The Understanding." In the story line, Parker contracts the plague, is left for dead by his fellow Comanche warriors, and is rescued by his future wife, Yolanda (Emily Banks), with whom he moves to her native [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556890/combined|title="The Understanding" on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 11, 2015}}</ref> Smith also played the outlaw turned sheriff, Henry Newton Brown, a former associate of [[Billy the Kid]], in the 1969 episode "A Restless Man."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/death-valley-days/a-restless-man-194093/|title=A Restless Man on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=July 13, 2015}}</ref> In the 1970 episode, "The Contract," Smith plays Red Eagle with Arlene McQuade as his wife, Little Fawn. The two must utilize their legal wiles to win a freight contract against the unethical, then violent, tactics of their opposition. Richard Bull and Don Megowan also appeared in this episode.

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*Arthur Space was cast as failed gold prospector Herb Phinney in the 1954 episode, "The Rainbow Chaser." Kay Stewart (1919–2002) played Herb's long suffering wife, Lucretia, who takes over his job as a store clerk to make ends meet. When Herb begins to sit around the house all day with no attempt at working, Lucretia stakes him on another gold search just to be rid of him. Jimmy Hawkins played one of their two sons. Apparently, Herb never found any gold and dropped all contact with his family thereafter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556859/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_73|title=The Rainbow Chaser on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 24, 2018}}</ref> Space was subsequently cast as Ben Hudson in the 1959 episode "Hang 'Em High," the story of the laying of the transcontinental [[telegraph]] across the western United States at the beginning of the American Civil War.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556632/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_73|title=Hang 'Em High on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=December 24, 2018}}</ref>

* Fay Spain played Calamity Jane, with Rhodes Reason as Wild Bill Hickok, in the 1966 episode, "A Calamity Called Jane." The episode centers upon Calamity joining Hickok's fledgling Wild West show. It ends with Hickok's assassination by Jack McCall in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556534/|title=A Calamity Called Jane on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=September 21, 2018}}</ref>

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* Jeffrey Stone, the inspiration for [[Walt Disney]]'s "Prince Charming,"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284822/?ref_=tt_cl_t2|title=Jeffrey Stone|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref> was cast as Dave Reid, a Philadelphian in the Death Valley country, in the 1961 episode, "The Salt War." In the story line, Reid tries to convince a rancher for whom he has romantic feelings, Rachel Emory (Lenore Roberts) (1929–1978), not to begin charging the public for [[salt]] on the Emory lands. Reid narrowly escapes a [[lynching]] as Rachel rides to his defense.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556875/|title=The Salt War on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie ~~Database~~|accessdate=June 14, 2019}}</ref>

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* Jeffrey Stone, the inspiration for [[Walt Disney]]'s "Prince Charming,"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284822/?ref_=tt_cl_t2|title=Jeffrey Stone|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref> was cast as Dave Reid, a Philadelphian in the Death Valley country, in the 1961 episode, "The Salt War." In the story line, Reid tries to convince a rancher for whom he has romantic feelings, Rachel Emory (Lenore Roberts) (1929–1978), not to begin charging the public for [[salt]] on the Emory lands. Reid narrowly escapes a [[lynching]] as Rachel rides to his defense.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556875/|title=The Salt War on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=June 14, 2019}}</ref>

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* John Pickard's character has filed a mining claim which conflicts with that of Curry's which was sent in by mail: but Mrs. Pritkin [[Hope Summers]] alerts Phil Curry that his dad's mining claim may have been illegally help up which was about to result in a dueling "Feud at Dome Rock" (1962).

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*Frank Sutton as self-proclaimed gunslinger "Diamondfield Jack," refused to give up that persona even to defend himself against a murder charge but was ably defended by future governor James H. Hawley (Edward Binns).

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* Victoria Vetri played [[Sacajawea]] in the 1967 episode, "The Girl Who Walked the West." Victor French was cast as her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, Dick Simmons as [[Meriwether Lewis]], and Don Matheson as [[William Clark]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556789/|title=The Girl Who Walked the West on ''Death Valley Days|date=November 4, 1967|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 9, 2019}}</ref>

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* John Vivyan guest starred as Jeremy Whitlock in the 1962 episode, "Showdown at Kamaaina Flats," set in the [[Hawaii]]. In the story line, Whitlock devises a scheme to defy his captain ([ane Bradford), who ordered Whitlock to retrieve native peoples as slaves.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556731/?ref_=ttep_ep14|title=Showdown at Kamaaina Flats on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref> Earlier, Vivyan played Ed Taylor in the 1961 segment, "The Lady Was an M.D.," with Yvonne DeCarlo in the title role.<ref name="decarlo" />

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* [[John Vivyan]] guest starred as Jeremy Whitlock in the 1962 episode, "Showdown at Kamaaina Flats," set in the [[Hawaii]]. In the story line, Whitlock devises a scheme to defy his captain ([ane Bradford), who ordered Whitlock to retrieve native peoples as slaves.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556731/?ref_=ttep_ep14|title=Showdown at Kamaaina Flats on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref> Earlier, Vivyan played Ed Taylor in the 1961 segment, "The Lady Was an M.D.," with Yvonne DeCarlo in the title role.<ref name="decarlo" />

* Peter Walker (born 1927) was cast as Kit Carson, Gardner McKay as the villainous Pierre Shunar, and Iron Eyes Cody as a trapper in the 1958 episode, "The Big Rendezvous," a reference to the Rendezvous, an annual gathering of fur traders, trappers, and friendly Indians held in what is now Utah, the first of such reunions in 1825. Laurie Carroll (born 1933) was cast as the young Indian woman, Waa-Nibe, for whom Carson is smitten.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556762/?ref_=ttep_ep14|title=The Big Rendezvous on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 31, 2018}}</ref>

*Patrick Waltz (1924–1972) was cast as Charlie Bates in the unusual 1957 episode, "Fifty Years a Mystery," set in the since ghost town of Bodie, California. In the story line, Bates in his sleep recalls the exact occurrences of a stagecoach robbery thirty-five miles from where he was sleeping. Years later, it is revealed that [[radio]] waves may have caused the bizarre phenomenon. Rosemarie Ace (1930–1996) played Bates' wife, the former Edith Anders, the daughter of his employer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556614/?ref_=ttep_ep14|title=Fifty Years a Mystery on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=January 10, 2019}}</ref>

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* Than Wyenn was cast as the storekeeper Isaccs in the 1959 episode "A Town Is Born," referring to Nogales, Arizona Territory. Jean Howell played his wife, Ruth, and Jan Arvan (1913–1979) was cast as Mexican President [[Benito Juárez]], who leads the fight against forces of the Emperor Maximilian. In the story line, Isaacs hides gold for the Mexican government to keep it out of the hands of Maximilian's agents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556546/|title=A Town is Born on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|date=January 16, 1959|accessdate=January 29, 2019}}</ref>

*Patrice Wymore appeared as Fay Morgan in the 1959 episode, "Forty Steps to Glory."

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* H. M. Wynant was cast as lieutenant (later General) Philip Sheridan in the 1961 episode, "The Red Petticoat," which Sheridan used as a symbol of the racist tendencies of the respective peoples Sheridan and his blood brother/scout Kahlu (Allan Jaffe) (1928–1989) had to fight in order to bring peace and prosperity to the Pacific northwest that was under Sheridan's protection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556862/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=The Red Petticoat on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 10, 2020}}</ref>With the help of the trapper he accompanies on a hunting trek (played by Don Haggerty), he renews his health and love of life. After an avalanche ruins a season's worth of work, his ability to make his own hats brings him a prosperous future, with Lee Van Cleef in a supporting role.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556803/?ref_=ttep_ep20|title=The Hat That Won the West" on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

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* H. M. Wynant was cast as lieutenant (later General) Philip Sheridan in the 1961 episode, "The Red Petticoat," which Sheridan used as a symbol of the racist tendencies of the respective peoples Sheridan and his blood brother/scout Kahlu (Allan Jaffe) (1928–1989) had to fight in order to bring peace and prosperity to the Pacific northwest that was under Sheridan's protection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556862/?ref_=ttep_ep13|title=The Red Petticoat on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 10, 2020}}</ref> With the help of the trapper he accompanies on a hunting trek (played by Don Haggerty), he renews his health and love of life. After an avalanche ruins a season's worth of work, his ability to make his own hats brings him a prosperous future, with Lee Van Cleef in a supporting role.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556803/?ref_=ttep_ep20|title=The Hat That Won the West" on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 31, 2018}}</ref>

* Tony Young played Corbin who has lost his faith and dreams. He is knocked unconscious when thrown from his horse (which may have been spooked by the "Phanton Procession" (1963) and then is nursed back to health orphaned Maria (Míriam Colón). Her brother Miguel, Eugene Iglesias, has fallen under Miller's, Harry Lauter's, evil spell; unfortunately Corbin and the padre, Edward Colmans, probably can't save him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556702/|title=Phantom Procession on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 20, 2019}}</ref>

* Victor Sen Yung, who played Hop Sing, the ranch cook on ''Bonanza,'' was cast as the compassionate Chinese restaurant owner, Quong Kee, in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1957 episode, "Quong Kee." In the story line, an aging Quong Kee recalls how in 1881 he brought together Art Gresham (Walter Kelley) and his mother, played by Mary Newton, both of Boston, with the saloon musician Ann Bailey (Eugenia Paul), who after a topsy turvy romance became Mrs. Art Gresham.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556712/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_52|title=Quong Kee on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=November 5, 2018}}</ref>

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Some episodes of the series were re-run with different sponsorship under the title ''The Pioneers''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/61-OCR/1961-07-31-BC-OCR-Page-0024.pdf|title=Broadcasting|last=|first=|date=July 31, 1961|newspaper=|access-date=February 20, 2017|work=|via=}}</ref>

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The restored TV series is currently broadcast on the [[Grit ~~(TV network)|Grit]]~~ network in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grittv.com/show/death-valley-days/|title=Death Valley Days – Grit|publisher=}}</ref>

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The restored TV series is currently broadcast on the Grit network in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grittv.com/show/death-valley-days/|title=Death Valley Days – Grit|publisher=Grit TV}}</ref>

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Two episodes of ''Death Valley Days'' are shown weekdays beginning at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the ~~[[Encore (TV channel)|~~Encore Westerns Channel]].

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Two episodes of ''Death Valley Days'' are shown weekdays beginning at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the Encore Westerns Channel.

==Awards and nominations==

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| 1955 || [[Emmy Award]] || '''Nominated''' || Best Western or Adventure Series ||

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| 1961 || Western Heritage Awards || '''Won''' || Best Factual Television Program || Ruth Woodman and [[Nat Perrin]] <small>(For episode "The Great Lounsberry Scoop")</small>

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| 1961 || Western Heritage Awards || '''Won''' || Best Factual Television Program || Ruth Woodman and Nat Perrin <small>(For episode "The Great Lounsberry Scoop")</small>

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In the 1955–1956 season, [[NBC]] offered ''[[Frontier (TV series)|Frontier]],'' an anthology Western series similar to ''Death Valley Days'' hosted by Walter Coy. Though cancelled after a single season, ''Frontier'' was a springboard for the western actor Jack Elam, was nominated for an Emmy Award.

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In the 1955–1956 season, [[NBC]] offered ''[[Frontier (1955 TV series)|Frontier]],'' an anthology Western series similar to ''Death Valley Days'' hosted by Walter Coy. Though cancelled after a single season, ''Frontier'' was a springboard for the western actor Jack Elam, was nominated for an Emmy Award.

==References==

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* [[Tim Brooks ~~(television historian)|Tim Brooks]]~~ & Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows''

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* Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows''

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