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It's impossible to discuss this episode without a spoiler alert. It's about a sheriff who's been hijacking passing cowboys and working them as a road gang. But that's not his real problem: he picked up a drug habit in the War Against Treason while in the hospital (he was on the wrong side) and when he went West and became sheriff he kept the habit. And it got bigger. He has a man in town who's been supplying him with drugs...He decides to raise his prices. Doesn't go over well, as is usual when drug dealers raises prices. It gets him killed. But in precedent, Robert Fuller asks him about "narcotics". Uses that word. The Sheriff owns up.I won't give away the main plot. But I have to believe this was the very first time a drug dealer got called out as such on a cowboy show. Praise to the writers and directors involved. They were far, far ahead of their time.
It's impossible to discuss this episode without a spoiler alert. It's about a sheriff who's been hijacking passing cowboys and working them as a road gang. But that's not his real problem: he picked up a drug habit in the War Against Treason while in the hospital (he was on the wrong side) and when he went West and became sheriff he kept the habit. And it got bigger. He has a man in town who's been supplying him with drugs...He decides to raise his prices. Doesn't go over well, as is usual when drug dealers raises prices. It gets him killed. But in precedent, Robert Fuller asks him about "narcotics". Uses that word. The Sheriff owns up.I won't give away the main plot. But I have to believe this was the very first time a drug dealer got called out as such on a cowboy show. Praise to the writers and directors involved. They were far, far ahead of their time.