I don't care much for barroom brawl scenes - in fact, I hate them - but this one was worth watching because it ended with that cute brotherly embrace. The family bond element is what elevates my 'big four' Westerns - 'Lancer,' 'Bonanza,' 'The High Chaparral,' and 'The Big Valley' - above all the rest. Interesting how all of them involved blended families in different ways.
I was looking for James Stacey's brother, I read where his brother Louie was his stunt double., I think his brother was in that brawl and at the end when the girl gets rescued!
5:42 I love how Johnny is the one who tells Murdoch they're not going, and Scott silently agrees (Scott who never disagrees with or opposes Murdoch, silently or otherwise). . .and in the next scene they're on their way!
You gotta wonder what would have happened if James Stacey hadn't been hit by that drunk driver. Lancer was the end of an era but it closed out the cowboy tv shows with class.
I'm a "Lancer" fan too (ed. - so I know how to spell James Stacy), so it breaks my heart to see how the potential, the promise for a GREAT western series as exhibited so brilliantly in the pilot, 'The High Riders,' has all but disappeared in the second season (ed. - like Elizabeth Baur's presence -- unforgivably minimal) -- with the exception of year two's premiere, the outstanding "Blind Man's Bluff.' Not sure if you're tying in the death of TV westerns to Stacy's tragic auto - motorcycle accident, but a considerable amount of time, three and a half years, had passed between "Lancer"'s spring 1970 demise and Stacy's Sept. 1973 extreme misfortune. In that interim Stacy returned to "Gunsmoke" for two more guest appearances, 'Yankton' and 'The Widow and the Rogue'. And both these were true western episodes with Stacy the star of each hour, delivering top performances at a time in "Gunsmoke"'s illustrious broadcast history when it was going pretty much the anthology route and getting away from Dodge City-centric, gritty western episodes due to the dastardly anti-TV violence brow beating emanating out of Washington, D.C. ("Sigh"). " . . . what would have happened . . . ? if ABC had picked up his lawyer-setting TV movie/pilot in which he starred opposite film star Susan Hayward, "Heat of Anger" (1972)? So often with legal dramas it's the older male lawyer, younger male partner or protege, e.g., E.G. Marshal + Robert Reed / "The Defenders," Burl Ives + James Farentino / "The Bold Ones," Arthur Hill + Lee Majors / "Owen Marshal, Counselor at Law," Andy Griffith + Kene Holiday / "Matlock." "Heat of Anger" presents a strong, successful, attractive red-head, still strikingly appealing to the opposite sex at age 50, and a generation younger law partner, the handsome Stacy. "'Lancer' was the end of an era but it closed out the cowboy TV shows with class." Not quite: "Bonanza," "The High Chaparral" and the granddaddy of TV westerns, CBS' "Gunsmoke," surpassed its 1970 exit. And on the subject of "class" "Lancer" bringing Paul Brinegar aboard so early in the run as Jelly AND with equal billing was hardly "class" and smart NOT, IMO. He would have been out of place in 'The High Riders.' With four "Lancer" regulars to 'service,' Brinegar's fifth wheel status, his episodes took away precious screen time + story material. Furthermore he took away from the half brothers, different as night-and-day flavor of the episodes. As I posted elsewhere, the nadir, or close to the nadir, was 'The Gifts' where Murdoch's ward, as he terms Teresa, is M.I.A. in picture; and she doesn't even warrant a mention by Johnny, Scott or Murdoch. In her place we're spoon-fed Jelly interacting with some orphans. Elizabeth Baur / Teresa was so prominent in the pilot and yet by the second season she's pretty much insignificant; and when around she's treated like an extra, e.g., no dialogue. A director 'on his toes' on 'The Gift' would have thrown in a line, "Oh, it's too bad Teresa's in Stockton, but she left him a present" -- just like we say 'Audra's in Stockton' on 'The Big Valley' when Linda (Evans) bails on an episode."
A little over a year following 'Juniper's Camp' Dennis and Rod Taylor were in the rugged, southern Arizona locations filming the outstanding, exciting, two-hour western, "Powderkeg." The two men definitely had chemistry and a trio of fetching females added to the movie/pilot's appeal, i.e., Luciana Paluzzi, and Universal contract players, Tisha Sterling and statuesque Melodie Johnson, both of whom played Clint Eastwood's lovers in "Coogan's Bluff" (1968) -- Sterling in NYC and Johnson in rural Arizona. Clearly Dennis and Rod were having a good time; their characters were fun to watch (ed. - and you can too, on RU-vid). Unfortunately the follow-up, one-hour, CBS weekly series, "Bearcats!" flopped when slotted Thursday evenings against NBC's number one show, the variety hour, "Flip Wilson." Speaking of NBC, that was Dennis' home for the 1969 - 70 season when he starred as stunt man Davey Evans in the major Hollywood studio setting of "Bracken's World." Like "Lancer" and Dennis' first primetime series, "The Felony Squad," produced by 20th Century Fox Television. "Thank you for posting 'Juniper's Camp,' 'Lancer Fan.'"
THIS IS MY SECOND COMMENT OR OPINION ON A COMMENT ABOUT THE LANCER SERIES. IT WAS SAID THAT LANCER WAS A CLONE FOR THE BONANZA SERIES, BUT IT SHOULD BE LARAMIE INSTEAD. WE SEE SLIM & JESS AS BEST FRIENDS & PARTNER'S, BUT AS CLOSE AS (2) BROTHERS CAN BE. HERE IS THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THEM: (1)SLIM SHERMAN & SCOTT LANCER, BOTH ARE OVER (6FT) (2) BOTH BLONDE HAIR (3) BOTH HAVE BLUE EYES & BOTH ARE VERY HANDSOME. (4) BOTH ARE BOOK & MILITARY SMART LIVING & WORKING ON A RANCH. NEXT YOU HAVE JOHNNY LANCER & JESS HARPER. HERE ARE THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THESE (2). (1) THEY BOTH STAND ABOUT (5FT 11") (2) THEY BOTH HAVE BLACK HAIR (3) THEY BOTH HAVE BLUE EYES. & (4) THEY BOTH ARE VERY HANDSOME. SLIM & SCOTT ARE THE COOL, THE CALM, & COLLECTED ONES WHO WILL TRY THEIR BEST TO AVOID A FIGHT OR A SHOOTOUT BUT WILL SHOOT & KICK BUTT IF THEY HAVE TOO. JOHNNIE & JESS ARE BOTH VERY HOT TEMPER ARE BOTH LIGHTING FAST WITH THEIR GUNS & THEIR FISTS. BUT THE (4) OF THEM WILL ALWAYS HAVE EACH OTHERS BACKS. THEY ARE ALSO BRAVE, LOYAL, COMPASSIONATE, & LOVING TO A FAULT. WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS. HERE YOU HAVE A SET OF BROTHERS IN NAME & BLOOD SCOTT & JOHNNIE LANCER, & (2) BEST FRIENDS SLIM SHERMAN & JESS HARPER NOT THE SAME NAME BUT AS CLOSE AS (2) BROTHERS COULD EVER BE. THIS IS MY COMMENT ABOUT THESE (4) MEN BUT WILL ALWAYS BE A LANCER FAN🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🎥🎥💖💖
I love your comparison of the 2 series & I love watching both series and I am an equally enthusiastic fan of both. :-) BTW, I love the opening music & scenery of Lancer when it comes on. I wish the series had ran more years.
@@dianneanderson731 DEAR DIANNE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT ON MY 2 WESTERNS, I LOVED BONANZA , BUT NOT AS MUCH AS LARAMIE & LANCER. AND I AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE TIME FOR LANCER & IT'S MUSIC & THE SCENERY. THANKS AGAIN. 🎥🎥🎥🐴🐴🐴😍😍 BARBARA WHITE(L&L FAN)
I agree with everything you said. Lancer and Laramie ... the comparison of being between these two wonderful cowboy series and I love the two .James Stacy and Robert Fuller were also friends and Robert was beautiful like Jesse Harper.
I see a slighter difference describing Scott and Johnny. But first yes, Slim and Scott were both cool and calm. Jess was sweet but also very short and hot tempered. I don’t think Johnny was near as quick to get angry or short tempered as Jess was. Cooper Smith the same in Wagon train. Jess and Coop could have been twins in looks and temper. Johnny did get mad but mainly when he was provoked enough. Mostly I think he kept a cool and calm disposition. But when he did get mad you knew it. And as cool and compassionate as Scott was; he did get angry plenty. Maybe not as mad as Johnny could get when he did get angry. But seems Scott got angry or cross more often than his brother. I have tried to tell the differences that I see, but I hope not confusing. I just don’t see Johnny as a hothead near as often as Jess or Cooper. I know Cooper really lacked patience. Johnny had a lot of patience most of the time. But all in all I love and admire all these characters. They are why I keep coming back.
