After watching Travels for the 1st time, I would say I would agree with everything you had to say MB. Diana was indeed lovely. But the show itself wasn't. It obviously was a knock off of Wagon Train  but not near as good. From what I gather, Jaime made it a point in the episodes to wander off and get himself in jeopardy. Sorta like Lassie on a covered wagon. At first I thought Jaime's dad was Ross Martin but nope. He struck me more as an annoying frontier Dr. Smith. The topic of the episode regarding rogue fur traders wasn't appealing  ..but then again , neither was the 2 part Gunsmoke episode Women for Sale with Kathy Cody. At least they did mitigate it with Wlliam Conrad doing a narration describing how bad it was. It also didn't help that Get TV ran it with an extra 15 minutes of commercials (!). That made it feel even more tortuous. As for Diana, I think her Rifleman or Bonanza westerns were much better but hey, anything with DS alumni is always worth a look see.

huff and puff and blow the house in.

were you considered the class dunce?

R: You have a rare wit Devlin... I'm hoping it will become extinct.
B: Then you need to put your boy David on it... He's an expert with bleeder valves as you discovered.

Perry Mason "The Case of the Knocked Off Knocker"

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