Bonanza: The Gunmen

Bonanza: The Gunmen
NBC
January 23, 1960
Western
DVD
C+

By this point with westerns, apparently they were using more humor, and we're talking mid '60s Don Knotts movie humor.  (The music also gets Vic-Mizzy-ish at times.)  That made it more bearable for me than the '50s Westerns we've seen in this project so far, as did the Lysistrata resolution, but, yeah, it's still a Western.  Note that Landon was then 23 and just a few years past I Was a Teenage Werewolf, so of course the girls all want to go to first base (hand-holding) with him.  This is from the first season, although I didn't realize that because it apparently was the first Western in color. 

Lorne Greene and Pernell Roberts are absent and the whole episode takes place in and around a Texas town where the Cartwrights are mistaken for hired killers, two doppelgangers with facial hair.  I'm tagging Ellen Corby, who plays Lorna Doone Mayberry, since "Grandma Walton" has a good chance of showing up elsewhere.  This is the middle of five Bonanza stories written by Carey Wilber, while it's one of twenty-six episodes directed by Christian Nyby.