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Some Familiar Faces and Names Here


I love these old Francis, the talking mule movies. And this one has some familiar names and faces in it. First of all there's Les Tremayne, who played a pickpocket in one of the more memorable episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. Then there's David Janssen and James Best who played as a couple of hardass corporals. Janssen would go on to become The Fugitive and later on detective Harry O. And James Best would go on to become Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane on one of my favorite series of all time, The Dukes of Hazzard. And last but not least Leonard Nimoy was one of the West Point football players. In about 15 years he would go on to become one of TV's most famous space aliens, Spock, on Star Trek.

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Nimoy acted in a few episodes of Highway Patrol, Best had a lead role in a Twilight Zone episode. I've always wondered how David Jansen's career would have gone had he not dies at a fairly young age.

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