Comments on: DVD Tuesday: Tales of Wells Fargo, The Guns of Will Sonnett http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/07/dvd-tuesday-tales-of-wells-fargo-the-guns-of-wells-fargo/ Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:48:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Barry I. Grauman http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/07/dvd-tuesday-tales-of-wells-fargo-the-guns-of-wells-fargo/comment-page-1/#comment-11069 Barry I. Grauman Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:48:16 +0000 http://www.tvobscurities.com/?p=3384#comment-11069 There were 50 episodes of "THE GUNS OF WILL SONNETT"; #50, "Three Stand Together", which served as a "pilot" for a proposed third season of the series [the Sonnetts as the law in a small town], was indeed shown on September 15, 1969, the last night it aired on ABC, and omitted from most episode guides....even producer Aaron Spelling forgot about that in his autobiography, claiming #49, "The Man Who Killed James Sonnett", was the "final episode" (HE got that information from an earlier printing of Brooks & Marsh's "COMPLETE TELEVISION DIRECTORY.."). MCA treated the hour-long color version of "TALES OF WELLS FARGO" (the final 1961-'62 season) as a "separate series"- it wasn't syndicated in the same "package" with the first five seasons of half-hour monochrome episodes...in fact, two of the hour-long episodes were re-edited into an "overseas" theatrical feature, eventually turning up in the States in syndication. As with most of their "unsaleable" black and white shows, MCA allowed their copyright to lapse on most of the half-hour "WELLS FARGO" episodes years ago, so the DVD "box set" probably consists of most of those episodes. There were 50 episodes of “THE GUNS OF WILL SONNETT”; #50, “Three Stand Together”, which served as a “pilot” for a proposed third season of the series [the Sonnetts as the law in a small town], was indeed shown on September 15, 1969, the last night it aired on ABC, and omitted from most episode guides….even producer Aaron Spelling forgot about that in his autobiography, claiming #49, “The Man Who Killed James Sonnett”, was the “final episode” (HE got that information from an earlier printing of Brooks & Marsh’s “COMPLETE TELEVISION DIRECTORY..”).

MCA treated the hour-long color version of “TALES OF WELLS FARGO” (the final 1961-’62 season) as a “separate series”- it wasn’t syndicated in the same “package” with the first five seasons of half-hour monochrome episodes…in fact, two of the hour-long episodes were re-edited into an “overseas” theatrical feature, eventually turning up in the States in syndication. As with most of their “unsaleable” black and white shows, MCA allowed their copyright to lapse on most of the half-hour “WELLS FARGO” episodes years ago, so the DVD “box set” probably consists of most of those episodes.

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