Wagon Train - "The Melanie Craig Story" - 06:00 am Saturday, November 1 on Great American Faith & Living

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The Melanie Craig Story

Season 7, Episode 22

Tempers flare and fists fly as four bachelors---including Duke---vie for the attentions of widow Melanie Craig.

repeat 1964 English

Western Family Drama

Cast & Crew

Scott Miller (Actor) .. Duke

Jim Davis (Actor) .. Rudd

John Craig (Actor) .. Prentiss

Tony Young (Actor) .. Quent

Roger Torrey (Actor) .. Sonny

Bobby Diamond (Actor) .. Matt

Myrna Fahey (Actor) .. Melanie Craig

John McIntire (Actor) .. Chris Hale

Robert Horton (Actor)

Frank McGrath (Actor)

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Did You Know..

Scott Miller (Actor) .. Duke

Born: April 25, 1934
Died: September 09, 2014
Birthplace: Bloomington, Indiana

Jim Davis (Actor) .. Rudd

Born: April 26, 1981
Died: April 26, 1981
Birthplace: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, United States

John Craig (Actor) .. Prentiss

Born: November 10, 1935

Tony Young (Actor) .. Quent

Born: June 28, 1937
Died: February 26, 2002

Trivia: The son of character actor Carleton G. Young, Tony Young was born in New York and raised in Hollywood. A handsome, athletic teenager, Young was offered a few film roles in the early '50s, but his father insisted that he get an education before launching a career. After stints with the Air Force and Los Angeles City College, the 6'3," 195-pound Young found showbiz work of sorts as an NBC page. Making all the right connections, he began landing TV roles in 1959. Two years later, he starred as U.S. Cavalry undercover agent Cord in the weekly TV Western Gunslinger. Tony Young remained typecast in Westerns ever afterward, essaying fast-draw roles in such films as Taggart (1963) and Charro (1969). The Tony Young listed in the credits of 1985's A Chorus Line is a different performer.

Roger Torrey (Actor) .. Sonny

Bobby Diamond (Actor) .. Matt

Born: August 23, 1943

Myrna Fahey (Actor) .. Melanie Craig

Born: January 01, 1938
Died: January 01, 1973

John McIntire (Actor) .. Chris Hale

Born: June 27, 1907
Died: January 30, 1991

Trivia: A versatile, commanding, leathery character actor, he learned to raise and ride broncos on his family's ranch during his youth. He attended college for two years, became a seaman, then began his performing career as a radio announcer; he became nationally known as an announcer on the "March of Time" broadcasts. Onscreen from the late '40s, he often portrayed law officers; he was also convincing as a villain. He was well-known for his TV work; he starred in the series Naked City and Wagon Train. He was married to actress Jeanette Nolan, with whom he appeared in Saddle Tramp (1950) and Two Rode Together (1961); they also acted together on radio, and in the late '60s they joined the cast of the TV series The Virginian, portraying a married couple. Their son was actor Tim McIntire.

Robert Horton (Actor)

Born: July 29, 1924
Died: March 09, 2016

Trivia: Redheaded leading man Robert Horton attended UCLA, served in the Coast Guard during World War II, and acted in California-based stage productions before making his entree into films in 1951. Horton's television career started off on a high note in 1955, when he was cast in the weekly-TV version of King's Row as Drake McHugh (the role essayed by Ronald Reagan in the 1942 film version). The series barely lasted three months, but better things were on the horizon: in 1957, Horton was hired to play frontier scout Flint McCullough in Wagon Train, which became the highest-rated western on TV. Horton remained with Wagon Train until 1962. He then did some more stage work before embarking on his third series, 1965's The Man Called Shenandoah. When this one-season wonder ran its course, Horton toured the dinner-theatre circuit, then in 1982 accepted a major role on the popular daytime soap opera As the World Turns. Horton continued acting until the late 1980s. He died in 2016, at age 91.

Frank McGrath (Actor)

Born: January 01, 1902
Died: January 01, 1967