"The Virginian" Stacey (TV Episode 1968) Poster

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Reverse psychology
bkoganbing27 February 2020
The spotlight is on Don Quine in this Virginian episode. Stacy Granger has an accident and breaks his right arm. The break heals but there is nerve damage is there and a specialist Dr. Robert Harris is brought in.

It will take time to heal and attitude is important. But the girl Stacy is courting breaks up with him.

As he's pretty hopeless and down in the dumps, both John McIntire and James Drury try a little reverse psychology on him. You'll have to see the episode to know what I mean.

Good story as Don Quine starts to windup his tenure on The Virginian.
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Well, I Hope Nobody'll Be Offended If I Tear Myself Away
CaptWinkie20 November 2023
This show talks about the disability possibility conundrum.

Stacey has a girl, Janie, they're serious, then an accident happens and his strong arm gets hamstrung. The arm gets put in a sling and everyone goes about their normal business as much as possible while it heals. Bingo-Bango, weeks go by and the arm skin is healed, but he still can't feel anything, arm is still incapacitated. Okay, how about an operation- it's risky but if you don't try something, it won't get better anyway. Somebody said if the arm had been mangled where amputation was required, that would have been one thing but with the arm still attached and seemingly normal but unusable, nobody knew anything, so they opted for surgery. Yay- surgery went well, there was a blood clot impeding the nerve, try to move your fingers. Nope, no movement. No matter, keep trying, massage the arm, if it recovers it will happen sooner than later so don't give up. Now Stacey is afraid to hope, plus he enjoyed the attention he got while winged, so he joins his arm in the hamstrung department and walks around with his lip hanging out.

Clay Grainger and the Virginian don't need a strong and capable man crippling himself psychologically and being a burden to folks if it can possibly be helped, so they jerk him around and mouth off until Stacey is finally mad enough to do something about it, if he can.

Janie ran away grossed out as soon as Stacey offered to let her massage the arm, but there was apparently good reason for that. You'll have to watch to see how it all plays out. It's interesting- Trampas throws in a joke-

This is the last show that Don carries/plays the main character. He does the support for The Decision in a couple weeks, then he's out and apparently happily as president of the Professional Karate Association.
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