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1. In the series 'Have Gun - Will Travel', the episode titled 'The Mark of Caine', the character Paladin, played by Richard Boone, references a western outlaw as being dead. The series took place around 1876. This outlaw lived until 1915 although his brother was murdered in 1882. Which outlaw was given an early death by television?
2. This 1959 western television series saw a notorious outlaw hang up his life of crime to become the law in a small town. In the television show he had two deputies, a girlfriend and a trick gun. In truth this outlaw actually died shortly after the gunfight at the OK corral probably as a direct consequence of the fight. Whose criminal record did television erase?
3. The television series 'Little House on the Prairie' had a visit from two notorious outlaws in an episode from 1977. They posed as southern civil war veterans and won the sympathetic heart of Mary Ingalls. When discovered, they took Mary hostage and eventually escaped to reap more criminal mayhem. A young Walnut Grove resident would grow up to kill one of them. Who are the villains that television gave a brief respite to?
4. This campy actor played OK corral hero Doc Holliday visiting Wyoming in the 1959 western series "Lawman". He was put in danger from vengeful brothers after killing their brother after a card game. This actor would go on to a future tv role as a costumed hero. Who played the dentist that television gave more adventures to than he had in real life?
5. In the late sixties-early seventies series "The Brady Bunch", little Bobby wrote an essay on his hero. As it was about a well known western outlaw, Mike and Carol were concerned. Although this man was a criminal and killer, who did television paint more as a sadistic, trigger-happy, ruthless, cold blooded, sociopathic, murderer?
6. Barry Sullivan played an almost paternal figure to Clu Gallagher's character. In this 1960-62 series these two had an uneasy friendship. They each anticipated that they must eventually collide, as they were on different sides of the law. Which real life characters from the series "The Tall Man" did television try to reconcile?
7. Paladin, in the series "Have Gun, Will Travel" tangled with a teenager named Dorateo Arango. Despite the fact the show supposedly took place approximately a decade after the civil war, the young Mexican was already a teenager. What Mexican revolutionary hero did television age by almost 20 years in this episode since he was actually only born in 1878?
8. Though more noted for battling criminals with his baton, this real-life western hero fought for women's rights in a television episode of his series called "The Inner Circle", in Wyoming in 1869. Despite the good deed portrayed in the episode, the real life individual at that time would have only been 16 years old! What character played by Gene Barry did television age so he could fight for the fairer sex?
9. On "Bonanza", a famous writer met the Cartwrights in the episode, "A Passion for Justice". Though this writer of "Great Expectations" traveled the eastern American coastal cities, he never visited the west. Who did television bring further west than he really travelled and make him Hoss Cartwright's hero?
10. In an episode of "Bonanza" entitled "Enter Mark Twain", Hoss befriends Sam Clemens. During a shootout with land grabbers, Sam decides to create a new pseudonym for himself after writing a newspaper article. What pseudonym did television have Hoss help Clemens abandon before deciding on Mark Twain?
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