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Ubiquitous

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Jan 21, 2016, 9:03:14 AM1/21/16
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anim...@cox.net wrote:

>This rerun on ME-TV
>"Old York"
>Season 8, episode 34, from May 4 1963
>Starts out with a title card
>REDWATER TEXAS
>1858
>We get some talk about people wanting to get rid of slavery, and a
>coming 'civil war' and there's a great big young fellow named Dillon
>whose face we never see ...
>A year and a half earlier Dillon had been working at the Three Bar, and
>almost went bad before Uncle Joe straightened him out
>Then we get another title card
>DODGE CITY
>17 YEARS LATER
>so we've got a firm year of 1875, at least for this episode.

Why were they providing background exposition in the eight season of the
show?


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anim8rfsk

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Jan 21, 2016, 9:27:21 AM1/21/16
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In article <n00rzM$bf9$2...@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> anim...@cox.net wrote:
>
> >This rerun on ME-TV
> >"Old York"
> >Season 8, episode 34, from May 4 1963
> >Starts out with a title card
> >REDWATER TEXAS
> >1858
> >We get some talk about people wanting to get rid of slavery, and a
> >coming 'civil war' and there's a great big young fellow named Dillon
> >whose face we never see ...
> >A year and a half earlier Dillon had been working at the Three Bar, and
> >almost went bad before Uncle Joe straightened him out
> >Then we get another title card
> >DODGE CITY
> >17 YEARS LATER
> >so we've got a firm year of 1875, at least for this episode.
>
> Why were they providing background exposition in the eight season of the
> show?
>

Old friend of Matt's returns, gone bad.

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Rhino

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Jan 21, 2016, 10:36:49 AM1/21/16
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Maybe they'd received a lot of fan mail asking about Matt's back story
so they featured it in an episode?

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anim8rfsk

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Jan 21, 2016, 10:41:12 AM1/21/16
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In article <n7qtpb$t05$1...@dont-email.me>,
I dunno. It was interesting. What I'd have loved would have been a
line saying how long he'd been in Dodge City at that point.
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