Wednesday, August 8, 2018

TV-GPS - PORTERVILLE, WYOMING



'QUINCY, M.E.'
"THE DEADLY CONNECTION"


From the IMDb:
Quincy is sent to a small rural community in Arizona to determine the cause of a deadly outbreak. Several of the town's residents become gravely ill with similar symptoms, but the local doctors are unable to find a cause. Quincy discovers the cause, but also finds a cover-up at the corporate level. It's a race for time to uncover the culprits, as well as deliver the antidote while fighting the resistance of the hospital's top administrator.
Based on Google Maps, there is no Porterville, Az.  But in  Toobworld, apparently there is.

This could have been an historical TV-GPS connection for 'Quincy, M.E.' - if only the case was in Porterville, Wyoming.  Which doesn't seem to exist either.




Porterville, Wyoming, was a town in the old West, that wild, wild West, where the lives of two Kansas cousins, Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, changed forever.


From Vintage45's blog post about the pilot movie for 'Alias Smith and Jones':
Hayes and Curry ride into Porterville where their old pal Lom Trevors (James “The Virginian” Drury) is the sheriff. Curry hand him the paper the old lady gave him. It’s an opportunity for amnesty. Lom says he’ll talk to the governor.




So I've lost out on that connection with 'Quincy, M.E.', unless the family of Miss Susan Porter of Porterville, Wyoming, also founded the Porterville of Arizona, investing in the fertilizer company that would end up poisoning the land.

But I do have a more solid connection for 'Alias Smith and Jones'......

'THE VIRGINIAN'
"THE OUTCAST"


From the IMDb:
Charlie Ryan is in jail in Porterville, Wyoming, after shooting a man during a bank robbery.  

And then there was that 'Maverick' episode in which Doc Holliday rode into town....



So there's that.....

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