This was a strange Wagon Train episode with a character played by Charles Bickford that I could not quite come to grips with. As the title character in The Daniel Barrister Story, Bickford is a man of strong convictions and he's ready to stand by them even at the cost of his wife's life.
Among the tenets of his faith is that he does not believe in doctors and as a result of that his daughter died of an untreated illness. Now his wife is hurt in a fall and eventually it's diagnosed as a fractured rib that has punctured a lung.
It takes a physician, a young physician at that fresh from battling a smallpox epidemic there to try and move Bickford. Roger Smith as the doctor has a religious background as well and the two fling scripture quotations back at each other.
Although Ward Bond has some good scenes defending Bickford's right to his beliefs as wacky as they are, this episode presents guest stars Bickford and Smith at their best. But in a really strange and somewhat unbelievable story.
Among the tenets of his faith is that he does not believe in doctors and as a result of that his daughter died of an untreated illness. Now his wife is hurt in a fall and eventually it's diagnosed as a fractured rib that has punctured a lung.
It takes a physician, a young physician at that fresh from battling a smallpox epidemic there to try and move Bickford. Roger Smith as the doctor has a religious background as well and the two fling scripture quotations back at each other.
Although Ward Bond has some good scenes defending Bickford's right to his beliefs as wacky as they are, this episode presents guest stars Bickford and Smith at their best. But in a really strange and somewhat unbelievable story.
