Bonanza – Enter Mark Twain

Enter Mark Twain

Season 1 (Episode 5)

Air Date: 10 October 1959

Writer: Harold Shumate

Director: Paul Landres

Synopsis
Sam Clemens arrives in Virginia City to take up a job at the Territorial Enterprise. He initially gets on the wrong side of the Cartwrights but soon teams up with them to battle a corrupt judge who is up for re-election.

Recurring Actors/Characters
Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing)

Guest Stars
Howard Duff (Samuel Clemens), Dorothy Green (Minnie Billington), Patrick McVey (Bill Raleigh), Edmund Ryan (Daniel Lash), John Litel (Judge Jeremy Clarence Billington), Lane Bradford (Lash’s Foreman), Ann Whitfield (Rosemary Lawson), Percy Helton (Blurry Jones), Arthur Lovejoy (Dr. Ephraim Lovejoy), Robert Carson (Marshal)


Notable Guest Stars

Howard DuffHoward Duff

Production Notes

  • This is the first of three episodes that features Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain

Episode Notes

  • Business: Sierra and Nevada Railroad (Owner: Daniel Lash)
  • Saloon: The Bucket of Blood
  • Newspaper: Territorial Enterprise

 

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