The irony of this show....James Stacy lost his leg and arm in the accident in real life. I wonder did he think back at how he motivated Santee and thought about following his own advice from this show. God bless him. RIP James.
This to me has to be one of the saddest Johnny episodes, even moreso than Blind Man's Bluff, Johnny really loves Laura, and yet he is unable to find anyone to talk to about it, the moment when he starts to talk to Murdoch about his mother is a huge opening in their relationship because Murdoch dooesn't for once tell him that's the past he realizes this is important to his son, damn the cowboy interuption and Scott for not seeing that Johnny needs his big brother, the game could wait.
Hard to believe Johnny didn't do something to me the bartender , or maybe the lady he loved has something to do with it . Great Western . And I do love westerns .
I first saw this episode on H&I, and I thought surely a scene must have been cut, but this cut exactly is the same. In the scene starting at 35:05, Durham (Vic Tayback's bartender character) tells Wichita Jim that he'll give him whiskey if he shoots and kills Johnny. But in the latter part of the very next scene, Johnny and Laura find Jim passed-out drunk out in the wilderness. We never see Durham again. What happened to him? Did Wichita Jim shoot him instead, and take his whiskey? Is that why Jim's going "wild" and ripping up pillows at the boarding house later, out of guilt and remorse? Either there's a cut scene, or it's a huge missed opportunity. It's practically unheard-of for a Western to have one character threaten another's life so dramatically - especially a main character! - and then just disappear without a trace, without even trying to carry out his threat. Does anyone know whether or not a scene was cut?
Even though a little over 50 minutes is most of the show, I agree that a couple of minutes have probably been cut from the original airings of Lancer. I think these rerun episodes were shown in the '90s & a bit would have been cut to get ad revenue. I'm a collector of TV shows from my youth in the '60s & '70s (both official & original airings) on DVDs. I have some shows from that era, with original commercials & the hour long shows were 52/53 minutes with the other 7 minutes or so being commercials & station identification. Today, retro stations cut up to 10/11 minutes to get their commercials aired.
Only one leg was supposedly amputated....the right one at or below the knee and that is all you could see. If you watch when he steps onto the chair, he steps with his left foot.
THIS EPISODE OF LANCER, REMINDS ME OF THE CATTLE DRIVES THEY WOULD HAV ON RAWHIDE, & HOW AFTER EACH DRIVE THEY WOULD CUT THE WOLF LOOSE AT SOME CATTLE TOWN. IT MEANS THE WAY TO LET OFF THE TRAIL DUST, THE FUN OF DRINKING, FIGHTING ETC. BUT TO ME THIS WAS A TEST OF JOHNNY'S FAITH, HIS CONVICTIONS, HIS HERTIAGE & HIS SENSE OF WRONG & RIGHT. BY LEARNING TO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK. FOR. HIS FAMILY THAT SEEMS TO KNOW & UNDERSTANDS HIM, WOULD AS SCOTT SAYS HE IS A VERY WELL SUFFICIENT MAN, BUT MURDOCH THINKS HE IS TOO SUFFICIENT. WHEN HE SEES HOW THE MISSION INDIANS ARE BEING TREATED HE SEES THE SIDE, THAT WAS DONE TO HIM AS JOHNNY MADRID. THE WOLF IN HIM HAD TO BE FREE TO LIVE. TO BE CUT LOOSE TO FIND HIS NITCH IN LIFE. HE TELLS LORIE THAT AS JOHNNY MADRID, HE DID ALOT OF BAD THINGS, BECAUSE ALOT OF BAD THINGS HAD BEEN DONE TO HIM. PLUS. HE SAID THAT HE DID THEM, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY LIFE HE KNEW IN THOSE BORDER TOWNS. THE INSIGHTS INTO JOHNNY'S LIFE IS SLOWLY EMERGING INTO THE MAN HE STRIVES TO BE FOR LORIE. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL SCENE BETWEEN FATHER & SON, WHEN JOHNNY WENT TO MURDOCH ABOUT, HOW LONG IT TOOK HIM TO MARRY HIS MOTHER. WHEN HIS REPLIED IT WAS A WHIRL WIND COURTSHIP. BUT HE CAUTION HIS SON ON THE PITFALLS OF FIRE & CHARCOAL LOVES. BUT JOHNNY ASSURED HIM THAT HE HAD BEEN THOUGH TO MANY CHARCOALS, NOT TO KNOW THIS WAS THE RIGHT ONE. BUT JUST WHEN FATHER & SON, ARE ABOUT TO GO FARTHER, THEY ARE INTERUPTED BY THE HANDS. HE EVEN ASK SCOTT & JELLY, ABOUT LOVE & WOMEN. THE WOLF NEEDED A MATE, & FOR JOHNNY THAT MATE IS LORIE. BUT IN THE LONG RUN, THE WOLF WAS A LONE WOLF, ONCE MORE.(NOTE) FOR FUN, IF JOHNNY HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN MATTIE & LORIE , WHICH ONE WOULD BE CHARCOAL? & WHICH ONE WOULD BE FIRE? A LANCER FAN.😍😍🎥
I would hope Johnny would always chose Mattie...over anyone...Ironically he saves the guy with 1 leg from killing himself. Later in real life he himself became a double amputee....& he was playing the guitar with another unusual ring on his finger..never noticed Scott wearing Jewelry...
@@debrarick9617 and sadly enough James Stacy also attempted to take his own life in Hawaii by throwing himself off a cliff. It seems he later made peace with himself, and a terrible crime he committed. He did a Lancer fan Q&A event that you can watch on RU-vid. He was much older but still very handsome wearing a shirt and hat similar to his Lancer attire. His boyish charm was still there along with his gorgeous smile.
