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Does everyone get MeTV? I just discovered it & lovingly watch Svengoulie
make fun of old B&W horror CLASSICS.

If we're talking Twain in TV, did anyone see our man Clemens in the SIFI
adaptation of Riverworld?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld_(2010_film)

A 6ft 3in model in white suit tries his worst at talkin' Pike while
navigating a riverboat.

FANNNNtastic.

ABE

On Monday, August 19, 2013, Jackie Wood wrote:

> I remember seeing that Rifleman episode when I was a kid and remember
> being excited to see my favorite author on TV!!
>
> FYI, the Cartwrights were on Bonanza.  Gunsmoke was the venue for
> Marshal Matt Dillon.
>
> Jackie Wood
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Robert E Stewart wrote:
>
> > Yup. in 1861 Sam Clemens and John Kinney laid their Timber Claim on
> > Tahoe  shoreline that was owned by the Ponderosa Ranch, according to
> > the burning  map  Bob S
> >    In a message dated 8/18/2013 10:28:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> writes:
> >
> > Yes. I  enjoyed that one-- also when he (as a character) showed up on
> > 'Gunsmoke' ,  a couple of times, I believe. The Cartwrights lived in
> > the
> > right part of  Nevada at the right time.
> >
> > DDD
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:01  PM, Dwayne Eutsey <[log in to unmask]<javascript:;>
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'm watching a  rerun of an old show called The Rifleman on MeTV
> >> tonight
> >> ("The  Shattered Idol") and, coincidence of coincidences, I see that
> >> Mark
> >>  Twain is the special guest in this episode.
> >>
> >> It's all  deliciously anachronistic, of course (it's the early 1870s
> >> and
> >> Twain's  in his white suit and writing Huckleberry Finn), but
> >>  interestingly...Langdon Clemens' recent death is an integral part of
> >> the
> >> plot.
> >>
> >> I'm attaching a photo I found of Chuck  Connors with the Twain
> >> character.
> >>
> >>  Dwayne
> >>
>

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