Yancy returns home after the Civil War and goes to his old home place. His plantation is played by Tara from GWTW -- it is unmistakable. I guess even Desilu liked to pinch pennies.
Ol' Yance has a Pawnee sidekick named Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wa, and they communicate using sign language. Funny, but everything they say to each other looks exactly like every other thing they say to each other. Not very inventive signing.
This is Pahoo:
His character's name allegedly means Wolf Who Stands in Water. This show was made so long ago that they could hire a German and cover him with redface. Try that today, Hollywood!
This show was made so long ago that both Sally Field's mother and Candice Bergen's mother are in the series - they play Yancy's girlfriends. Yep, it was that long ago.
Yancy, of course, went on to play Tarzan, and he has several rope swinging stunts in this show. Perhaps they took "Hollywood and Vine" literally. The usual cast of '50s character actors stop by for a paycheck -- Nick Adams, Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef, heck, even Louise Fletcher has a part. Talk about some Ratched acting!
Wikipedia says that post-war New Orleans was like post-war Berlin. I am not seeing it in this series, but I suppose an occupied city is an occupied city. Damned carpetbaggers!
For those keeping score, it was 71 degrees yesterday, it will be 22 tonight, 17 tomorrow night, and while none of those are a problem, individually, having the temperature riding a roller coaster like that is tough to work around.
Plus, it looks warm over there.
