Cimarron Strip/Broken Wing

Broken Wing
Season 1, Episode 3
Airdate	September 21, 1967
Production Number	0706
Written by	Harold Swanton
Directed by	Sam Wanamaker
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Cimarron Strip — Season One

Special Guest Star:Steve Forrest (Wiley Harpe)

Guest Starring: Pat Hingle (Mike McQueen)

Co-Starring: Larry Gates (Kilgallen), Arch Johnson (Parson Endicott), Royal Dano (Matthew Mark Lukenjohn) Karl Swenson (Doctor Kihlgren), Warren Vanders (Thatch), Tim O'Kelly (Jing McQueen), Harry Harvey, Sr. (Railroad agent), Joel Fluellen (Railroad porter), Al Wyatt (Case), Abry Edwards (1st man), Ed Barth (2nd man).

Plot Overview

High Jinx with fireworks and Jing McQueen, the drunken son of a wealthy cattleman, shoots a preacher and burns down a livery stable killing 8 horses. The Cimarron settlers demand immediate justice. Kilgallen, a saloon-keeper with a thirst for power, and gunslinger Wiley Harpe to whom he had promised the Marshals job side with the settlers. When the preacher recovers and refuses to press charges, Jing is released from jail. Kilgallen and Wiley Harpe move into action: they convince the settlers that Marshal Jim Crown and the preacher have sold out to the wealthy rancher, Mike McQueen who refuses to face the fact that his only son is emotionally immature. By turning the settlers against Crown, Harpe and Kilgallen hope to take over the entire Cimarron Strip and the riches by way of graft.

Notes

This episode reveals that Marshal Crown presides over 1000 sq miles, 5 towns, a railroad, and 17 farm settlements.

Cimarron City has 8 saloons.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Wiley Harpe was to be Marshal but arrived a month after Crown's appointment.

• Jing is illiterate and ruled by his father but knows right from wrong.

• Dulcey reads the book Treasure Island to Jing.

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

Royal Dano plays Walking Man in the episode The Beast That Walks Like a Man.

Steve Forrest plays Sgt. Clayton Tyce in the episode Sound of a Drum.

Allusions and References

This story has a reference to the boxing match between John L Sullivan and Englishman Charley Mitchell that took place in France in 1888. The fight lasted for more than two hours until both men could not lift their arms. Boxing was illegal in France.

Treasure Island was first sold as a book in 1883. It was originally serialised in a children's magazine Young Folks.

Quotes

• Dulcey in the open cell reading to Jing. "He promised not to escape, I got the keys from your desk".

• Dulcey about Jing "His father wants him to be an Eagle, but he's only a little bird with a broken wing".