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" A Passage Of Saints "

posted 8 years ago by smurky
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This is a very compelling episode. There's a very similar one on Bonanza. The husband there is Eric Flemming ( Rawhide ) and his 2 wives are Dina Merrill and Lois Nettleton, both beautiful and approx the same age. On TBV, one wife is old and the other young so that the family can be presented as 2 parents and a daughter.....but I wonder what they planned on telling people when the "daughter" gets pregnant!

[–] elvisforever-633-689384 8 years ago

There are several episodes on Bonanza that are similar to BV. In Palms Of Glory Heath raced a train and in an episode of Bonanza Little Joe raced a train and in another episode Victoria was kidnapped into a prison wagon and in Bonanza Hoss was kidnapped into a prison wagon and those two were written by the same author. Writers were scrambling for ideas

[–] smurky 8 years ago

Yes, and Michael Landon took some story ideas from Bonanza and adapted them to LHOTP