Television
The Gene Autry Show
Dynamite
Flying A Pictures
Season 5, Episode 13 (5-13)
Production #88
Network: CBS
Running Time: 30 minutes
Color
Original Air Date:
Saturday, December 24, 1955
Sponsor: Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum
Brief Synopsis:
An empty stagecoach prompts Gene to investigate a recent mine disaster.
Detailed Synopsis:
Gene Autry and Pat Buttram stop a runaway stage only to find it empty! They locate the wounded driver, who says that his one passenger, Driscoll, is missing. Driscoll shows up at the sheriff’s office, claims his luggage, and says that he knows nothing. The trail leads to Ben’s general store, where Gene catches Driscoll breaking in. He reveals to Gene that he is an undercover detective working for a Colorado mining company trying to catch a fugitive mining engineer who caused a fatal explosion. Suspicious of Ben’s explosives’ knowledge, Pat trails him and strange gunmen to a mine, where a caved in side tunnel traps him. Guided by Pat’s runaway horse, Gene tracks Pat to the mine and tries to free him. Ben, faced with letting Pat die, admits he is the missing mining engineer and sets about saving Pat’s life, using a dynamite charge. Ben claims he is innocent and, by saving Pat’s life under identical circumstances, proves it. The gunmen, who were blackmailing Ben, attack, but Gene outshoots and captures them.
Cast:
| Character: | Performer: |
| Gene Autry | Gene Autry |
| Pat Buttram | Pat Buttram |
| Ben | Francis McDonald |
| Deborah | Sally Fraser |
| McCann | Glenn Strange |
| Sheriff | Harry Harvey, Sr. |
| Driscoll | Robert Bice |
| Garson | John Boutwell |
| Stage Driver | Bob Woodward |
| Musical Group | The Cass County Boys |
| Champion | Champion, World’s Wonder Horse |
Songs:
| Sierra Nevada | Gene Autry |
| Trail to Mexico | The Cass County Boys |
Crew:
| Executive in charge of Production |
Armand Schaefer |
| Directed by | George Archainbaud |
| Teleplay by | Maurice Geraghty |
| Producer | Louis Gray |
| Director of Photography | William Bradford, A.S.C. |
| Supervising Film Editor | Anthony Wollner |
| Film Editor | Bruce B. Pierce, A.C.E. |
| Musical Director | Carl Cotner |
| Music Supervisor | Irving Friedman |
| Musical Score | Walter Greene |
| Music Editor | Erma E. Levin |
| Assistant Director | Stanley Neufeld |
| Recorded by | Glen Glenn Sound Company |
