About Boot Hill

Now I'm thinking of a "Twilight Zone" episode: "Mr. Garrity and the Graves". This episode featured frequent "Gunsmoke" guest star John Dehner as a man who rides into a town in the Old West. A dog is run over and killed, Dehner pores over it and the dog is resurrected. Dehner then tells the townspeople that he can bring back their deceased loved ones from the nearby cemetery. To demonstrate further, he raises a man's brother. However, the living sib is not too keen on seeing his brother resurrected and pays to send him back to the grave. Garrity (Dehner) then says how he plans on bringing back dead people who had bad ties to some of the other townspeople like an outlaw who was shot in the back by the sheriff or the abusive wife of a battered husband. Those people and others pay Garrity to leave tose people in their graves and for him to leave town. As Garrity leaves, he reunites with the "resurrected" dog and his partner, who played the other "revenant". But, as they ride past the cemetery, the real dead people suddenly rise from their graves. They compliment Garrity as they make their ways back to town to settle old scores. Good episode!



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