AS SEEN ON TV: ALT-TEDDY ROOSEVELT

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

AS SEEN IN:
'Voyagers!'

AS PLAYED BY:
Gregg Henry

STATUS:
Revised Timeline

In this parallel timeline, Teddy Roosevelt turned out to be the 27th victim of Billy the Kid. Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones had to work their time-traveling magic to prevent that.

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"DARK SHADOWS" OF "THE RIFLEMAN"

'THE RIFLEMAN'
"The Coward"
Lucas becomes involved in a battle between an aspiring writer recently fired as cook for a trail outfit and a cocky, bragging trail hand who finds it fun to whip up on those weaker then himself.
From "The Rifleman Episode Guide List"

George Collins was an aspiring writer whose family hailed from back East. By "back East", it could be that he was from Maine, where his family founded the town of Collinsport.

If so, he may have seen this painting in his family's ancestral home of Collinwood.....

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AS SEEN ON TV: WELLS-FARGO

HENRY WELLS & WILLIAM G. FARGO

AS SEEN IN:
'The Improbable History Of Mr. Peabody'

AS VOICED BY:
Paul Frees

From Wikipedia:
Henry Wells (December 12, 1805 – December 10, 1878) was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company.

William George Fargo (May 20, 1818 – August 3, 1881), pioneer American expressman, was born in Pompey, New York.

In March 1850, when through a consolidation of competing lines the American Express Company was organized, Wells became president and Fargo secretary. In 1851, with Wells and others, he organized the firm of Wells Fargo & Company to conduct an express business between New York and San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama and on the Pacific coast, where it long had a virtual monopoly.

In 1861 Wells Fargo & Company. bought and reorganized the Overland Mail Co., which had been formed in 1857 to carry the United States mails, and of which Fargo had been one of the original promoters.

1852: Henry Wells and William G. Fargo (Mayor of Buffalo, NY from 1862–63 and again from 1864–65), the two founders of American Express, form Wells Fargo & Company to provide express and banking services to California.

1860: Wells Fargo gains control of Butterfield Overland Mail Company, leading to operation of the western portion of the Pony Express.

In the Tooniverse, however, Wells and Fargo were bitter rivals in 1850 for control of the Pony Express, with Wells being something of an evil prick about it....

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AS SEEN ON TV: ALT-BILLY THE KID

BILLY THE KID

AS SEEN IN:
'Voyagers!'

AS PLAYED BY:
Frank Koppala

STATUS:
Revised Timeline

In this parallel timeline, Billy the Kid gunned down Teddy Roosevelt. Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones had to work their time-traveling magic to prevent that.

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"THE RIFLEMAN" - CULP-ABILITY

'THE RIFLEMAN'
"The Hero"
A young stable hand becomes upset when the town people won’t give him the reward money he deserves for killing a notorious outlaw - because he was shot in the back.

"The Man From Salinas"
A young man comes to town to collect the body of his dead brother, but Lucas suspects the main isn’t who he says he is.
From "The Rifleman Episode Guide List"

Many of these posts about individual episodes of 'The Rifleman' are proving to be theories of relateeveety, and this is a tele-quickie along the same lines:

Hoby Gilman was a Texas Ranger (and a member of the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame) seen in the TV series 'Trackdown'.

Colly Vane ("The Hero") and Dave Foley ("The Man From Salinas") were probably his younger cousins, identical cousins. But I don't know if you'd find that they laugh alike or walk alike, or even if they talk alike......

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"THE RIFLEMAN" - THE ASHFORD LINE

'THE RIFLEMAN'
"The Young Englishman"
Lucas McCain accuses the young foreman of a neighboring ranch of rustling one of his calves.
From "The Rifleman Episode Guide"

Jeremy Ashford was maintaining the ranch for his older brother, who had inherited the title of Duke and all of its wealth. If that Duke had more than one son, those other children would have to find their own way in the world. And with each succeeding generation, that connection to the noble line would become more distant.

The previous Duke, father of the "current" Duke and of Jeremy, may have had a younger brother as well, so that by the time of World War II, the great-grandchildren Martin and Edith Ashford were leading simple lives as Quakers (as seen in an episode of 'Foyle's War' - "Bad Blood".)

Martin was accused of a murder, and because of the investigation, his sister Edith rekindled a past love with Sgt. Paul Milner.

You go far enough back, I suppose you can link plenty of TV characters to each other. And the great thing about the Toobworld timeline is that if you go far enough forward, you can do the same thing!

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AS SEEN ON TV: WILD BILL HICKOCK

WILD BILL HICKOCK

AS SEEN IN:
'The Legend Of Calamity Jane'

AS VOICED BY:
Clancy Brown

From Wikipedia:
The dead man's hand is a two-pair poker hand, namely "aces and eights". This card combination gets its name from a legend that it was the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok, when he was murdered on August 2, 1876, in Saloon No. 10 at Deadwood, South Dakota.

According to the popular version, Hickok's final hand included the aces and eights of both black suits. As Hickok's biographer, Joseph Rosa puts it: the "accepted version is that the cards were the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, two black eights (clubs and spades), and the queen of clubs as the "kicker". However, Rosa says no contemporary source for this exact hand can be found. The earliest detailed reference to the "dead man's hand" is 1886, where it was described as a "full house consisting of three jacks and a pair of tens."

In accounts that mention two aces and eights, there are various claims regarding the identity of Hickok's fifth card, suggestions that he had discarded one card and/or that the draw was curtailed by the shooting and Hickok therefore never received his fifth card.

In the HBO television historical drama series 'Deadwood', a nine of diamonds is depicted, although the show posits that another player concocted the hand, to further his own newsworthiness. An episode of 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' shows Hickok holding a queen of clubs.

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TEDDY ROOSEVELT: "THE DUDE" ABIDES......

To celebrate Teddy Roosevelt in the TV Universe, here's "The Dude" himself, as seen in 'Law Of The Plainsman', the spin-off from 'The Rifleman'....

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THE TOOBWORLD TRIBUTE TO CHUCK CONNORS

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AS SEEN ON TV: TEDDY ROOSEVELT

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

AS SEEN IN:
'The Law Of The Plainsman'

 From Wikipedia:

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.

After the Republican Convention of 1884, Roosevelt said he had no further aspiration but to retire to his ranch in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory, which he had purchased the previous year while on a buffalo hunting expedition.Roosevelt built a second ranch, which he named Elk Horn, thirty-five miles (56 km) north of the boomtown of Medora, North Dakota. On the banks of the Little Missouri, Roosevelt learned to ride western style, rope, and hunt. He rebuilt his life and began writing about frontier life for Eastern magazines. As a deputy sheriff, Roosevelt hunted down three outlaws who stole his river boat and were escaping north with it up the Little Missouri.

Capturing them, he decided against hanging them (apparently yielding to established law procedures in place of vigilante justice), and sending his foreman back by boat, he took the thieves back overland for trial in Dickinson, guarding them forty hours without sleep and reading Tolstoy to keep himself awake. When he ran out of his own books, he read a dime store western that one of the thieves was carrying." While searching for a group of relentless horse thieves, Roosevelt met Seth Bullock, the famous sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota. The two would remain friends for life.

After the uniquely-severe U.S. winter of 1886-1887 wiped out his herd of cattle (together with those of his competitors) and his $60,000 investment, Roosevelt returned to the East.
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