MAUDE & MERVIN WENDELL
CREATED BY:
James Michener
PORTRAYED BY:
Mervin Wendell - Anthony Zerbe
Maude Wendell - Lois Nettleton
AS SEEN IN:
'Centennial'
TV STATUS:
"Born To Rerun"
(Splainin to follow)
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
From Wikipedia:
Mervin Wendell (Anthony Zerbe), his wife Maude
(Lois Nettleton), and young son Philip (Doug McKeon) come to town. The Wendells
are ostensibly itinerate actors but in reality they are charlatans and
con-artists working their way across the new railroad towns one step ahead of
the law. Their favorite con is called the "badger game".
The con works on the
local pastor and the Wendells reap large blackmail proceeds. Their plan turns
sour when they try it on a worldwise businessman, Soren Sorenson (Sandy McPeak).
He recognizes their trick, too late, and threatens to expose them. Wendell
attacks him. They struggle and Sorenson is killed by Maude Wendell. While
looking through his belongings, they find a large fortune in cash that Sorenson
was going to use to finance a real estate purchase. Philip hides the body in a
subterranean cave along the riverbank. They keep the money but realize that they
cannot spend it as it will expose their guilt.
With the sheriff now out of the picture, Mervin and Maude Wendell are now free from legal suspicion. He charms a railroad land agent and begins planting the seeds of a future real estate empire.
With the sheriff now out of the picture, Mervin and Maude Wendell are now free from legal suspicion. He charms a railroad land agent and begins planting the seeds of a future real estate empire.
Two for Tuesday!
BCnU!
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