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 6.07 [156]
"Ah Sing vs Wyoming"
Original NBC Broadcast - 25 October 1967

Executive Producer Norman Macdonnell
Produced by Cy Chermak
Written by Irve Tunick
Directed by Charles S. Dubin

Starring:
(shown on the ride-in)
Charles Bickford as John Grainger (last appearance)
Doug McClure as Trampas (NOT in this episode)
Clu Gulager as Emmett Ryker (appears)
Don Quine as Stacey Grainger (NOT in this episode)
Sara Lane as Elizabeth Grainger (appears)
and
James Drury as The Virginian

Complete credits currently unavailable

Guest Stars:
Edmond O'Brien ................ Thomas Manstead
Aki Aleong .................... Ah Sing
Lloyd Bochner ................. Luke Evers

Closing Credits: (incomplete)
Co-Starring:
Robert Ellenstein ............. Milo Temple
Jill Donohue .................. Lucy Evers
Gilbert Green ................. Sy Bailey
John Hoyt ..................... Judge Manton
Bartlett Robinson

Associate Producer David Levinson
Music Score Ralph Ferraro
'The Virginian' theme music by Percy Faith
Color by Technicolor
The title 'The Virginian' by permission of EMKA LTD.

Series Regulars in this episode: John, Ryker and Liz

Brief Synopsis:
Ah Sing (Aleong), a Chinese immigrant who had formerly been John Grainger's
cook, is jailed when he defies Medicine Bow's bigoted justice of the peace
by opening a restaurant after being denied a license for one.  John urges an
alcoholic lawyer to sober up and fight Ah Sing's case, going all the way to
the Supreme Court.

(Note:  This synopsis was adapted from THE TV COLLECTOR magazine, Vol. 2,
No. 49, July-August 1990, p.13, and THE TELEVISION WESTERNS EPISODE GUIDE by
Harris M. Lentz III, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1997, p. 434.  It has not
been viewed by us personally to attest to its accuracy.) (bj)

Note:
This episode marked the final appearance Charles Bickford.
He died on November 9th, 1967, of a blood infection in Los Angeles,
California, USA.
Bickford remained on the ride-in upto and including episode 6.16 'The Death Wagon'

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