J.D. CANNON 1975
CONLAN CARTER 1964
JACK CASSIDY 1968, 1971
MICHAEL CONRAD 1981*, 1982*, 1983, 1984
WALLY COX 1953, 1954
BRADFORD DILLMAN 1963
TOM EWELL 1977
SALLY FIELD 1977*, 1995, 2000, 2001*, 2003
DAVE GARROWAY 1956 (two categories)
WILL GEER 1973, 1974, 1975*, 1976, 1977, 1978 (three categories)
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. 1977*, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1997
JOAN HACKETT 1962
DIANA HYLAND 1963, 1977*
SAM JAFFE 1962
DEAN JAGGER 1964, 1965
SHIRLEY KNIGHT 1981, 1988*, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995* (two categories, won both)
MICHELE LEE 1982
IDA LUPINO 1957, 1958, 1959
JULIET MILLS 1975*
ROBERT MORSE 1969, 1993*
DIANA MULDAUR 1990, 1991
JEANETTE NOLAN 1964, 1966, 1974, 1978
SHEREE NORTH 1976, 1980
SUSAN OLIVER 1977
PERNELL ROBERTS 1981
CRAIG STEVENS 1959
LARRY STORCH 1967
VAUGHN TAYLOR 1952, 1953
WILLIAM WINDOM 1970*
KEENAN WYNN 1978
Directors
EDWARD M. ABROMS 1970* (film editing), 1972* (film editing), 1973
BRUCE BILSON 1968*
HARRY FALK 1975
ALEXANDER SINGER 1972*
WRITERS/PRODUCERS
JUANITA BARTLETT 1979, 1980
GLORYETTE CLARK 1972 (film editing)
ROY HUGGINS 1958, 1959*, 1968, 1977
GLEN A. LARSON 1974, 1975, 1978
DAVID MOESSINGER 1981, 1983
MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA
Number of Gormans — 4
Number of Harrys — 4
Number of Tommys — 2
Numbers in titles — Six Strangers at Apache Springs; Stagecoach Seven; The Girl in Boxcar #3; 5th Victim; How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson; Twenty-One Days to Tenstrike; The Ten Days That Shook Kid Curry; Only Three to a Bed
Number of coin tosses — 7
Number of times either Heyes or Curry is in jail — 13
Number of times Red Rock used as town — 5
Number of times Curry called on to demonstrate fast draw — 22
Number of times Heyes called on to demonstrate silver tongue — 15
Number of episodes in which Heyes and Curry play cards — 30
Number of episodes featuring a cattle drive — 7
Bankers — Blodgett, Blake, Sterling, Binford, Powers
The name “Hanley” is used for the judge in “Jailbreak at Junction City” and for the horse trainer in “Miracle at Santa Marta.”
Clothes carried in the “Magic Saddlebags”
CURRY — brown hat, leather coat with sheepskin collar, tan jacket, leather coat with no collar, white shirt, royal blue shirt, brown shirt, red shirt, light blue shirt, black or navy blue shirt, dark red shirt, red longjohns, white henley, brownish-red henley, green pants, jeans, bandanna, brown leather vest, gray leather vest, gray suit and derby
HEYES — black hat, brown corduroy jacket, gray jacket with black collar, brown suede vest, tan shirt, black shirt, navy blue shirt, white shirt, tan shirt, medium blue shirt, royal blue shirt, blue shirt with white cuffs white longjohns, gray henley, white henley, tan pants, string tie, gray vest, black vest, lapel vest, leather vest, fringed chaps, suspenders, blue or black bandanna, brown suit and derby
Money
Heyes and Curry were always interested in money, and often had their hands on a substantial amount, yet somehow never managed to come out ahead. Over the course of the series, the total cash the boys had on hand was $38,178.63. The total amount they were promised by various employers was $464,900. The amount they were actually paid by these employers over the course of the series was $215,967. But in the end, the amount the boys were able to keep was only $23,379.90.
Appendix D
Merchandise
Derived from Alias Smith and Jones
Brian Fox novels:
Cabin Fever
Apache Gold
Dead Ringer
Dragooned
Trick Shot
Outlaw Trail
Cigar bands, UK annuals, and trading stamps.
Appendix E
Time Slots
Season One
ABC — Thursday 7:30-8:30 PM
BBC2 — Monday 8:00-8:50 PM
Season Two
ABC — Thursday 8:00-9:00 PM
Season Three
ABC — Saturday 8:00-9:00 PM
Appendix F
Roy’s Rules for the Writers
Alias Smith and Jones did not have a formal “bible,” that is, a written list of character traits and backstory used by the writers to maintain consistency in characterization. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t one. The show’s bible did exist, but only in the head of Roy Huggins, and he would share his vision of the characters with the writers as he deemed it necessary. Below are the rules for writing about Heyes and Curry as gleaned from story conference notes.
Our boys are trying to build up a record for the Governor…This whole area should be given a reality in the series. Then someday we could build a story around meeting the Governor. The Root of It All — 11/19/70
Note: our boys are facing the possibility of being put away as Kid Curry and Hannibal Heyes — which is life…if it isn’t the gallows. The Root of It All — 11/19/70
Reward: there should be ten thousand dollars on the head of each one of our boys. Anyone who turns them both in will thus collect twenty grand. The Root of It All — 11/19/70
Note: we never refer to them as the Hole-in-the-Wall gang. In the series we will call them the Curry-Heyes gang. Wrong Train to Brimstone — 11/23/70
Our boys handle themselves well…being Western heroes. They’re skilled with guns and they’re tough — although they don’t look tough. The McCreedy Bust — 11/24/70
They tell McCreedy they’ll think it over and let him know…our boys are too smart to accept any deal like that on face value. They’ve been around too long and have been crooked too many years to take anything on face value. They are very skeptical, sardonic, cynical guys — although they don’t look it. The McCreedy Bust — 11/24/70
They’ve agreed that Heyes will do the poker playing because he’s the smart one. Note: part of the humor of this series is that Heyes isn’t always the smart one. Curry comes up now and then with better ideas — but our boys always agree that Heyes is the intelligent one. The McCreedy Bust — 11/24/70
Note: our boys now have ten thousand dollars apiece and they’re going to South America, where they can’t be extradited and where they can lie low until their year is up. Then they’ll come back. In the meantime, they can live a great life. The McCreedy Bust — 11/24/70
Our boys even think about doing something about Sam Finrock — but one of the things they have to watch out for is trouble. They’re not really free to be as violent as they might like to be. They might like to take Finrock and tie him up and threaten to kill him if he doesn’t tell them — but they don’t. Exit from Wickenburg — 11/25/70
When our boys first became outlaws, they rode with a guy named Tom Plummer. Almost one of the first robberies our boys were ever in on, they hit a train and got away with thirty thousand dollars…Our two boys were there with him that day, a part of that gang. Ten other guys were also a part of that gang — and they’re still out there somewhere. Exit from Wickenburg — 11/25/70
Our boys tell Plummer that he must not remember them very well. They don’t kill people. They never have, and they don’t expect to in the future — and they’re not going to kill him. Exit from Wickenburg — 11/25/70
Heyes and Curry didn’t share misspent youths for nothing. They have come prepared. The McCreedy Bust — 11/29/70
New approach to the scene: Kid Curry doesn’t know Jim Plummer. This all happened nine or ten years
ago, before Heyes met the Kid. Heyes was a member of Jim Plummer’s gang — and Plummer recognizes him. The Kid never did have to leave town, it was only Heyes…but they knew if they wanted to get rid of Heyes, they had to get rid of the Kid too. Exit from Wickenburg — 12/3/70
Heyes is in his early thirties — and this all happened when he first started ten years ago. This is the first gang he ever rode with. Exit from Wickenburg — 12/3/70
They don’t want to go back to train robbery. They kind of like this life — it’s kind of challenging to be honest…and it’s also getting very tough not to be. They figured out that the time they spent planning a robbery, running from the posse and everything, they made more money doing an honest job — when you put it on a day labor basis. Besides, that Devil’s Gorge wasn’t exactly the greatest place in the world to live. A Fistful of Diamonds — 12/8/70
The Kid and Heyes are still debating, still wondering what to do…because they’ve got that money, and they could leave, go to South America, and they wouldn’t have to worry about being nabbed and some other guy blaming a murder on them, etc. But our boys are concerned, too, because it’s a violation of their word to the Governor and to Lom. Besides, who wants to live in South America for the rest of his life? This is where they were born — and this is where they want to live. (This is a very important instinct in people, not wanting to be exiled.) A Fistful of Diamonds — 12/8/70
Amnesty: our boys haven’t got any kind of amnesty. They have been told that if they behave themselves, and really stay out of trouble — stop robbing trains and banks — in a year or so the Governor will consider the possibility of giving them amnesty. Our boys haven’t got amnesty partially — they haven’t got it at all. All they have is a promise. A Fistful of Diamonds — 12/21/70
Neither man is violent. Curry is good with a gun but he’s not going to stick it in a guy’s face and threaten to kill him if he doesn’t tell the truth. A Fistful of Diamonds — 12/21/70
Note: we should have no ambiguity about whether our boys are going straight. They are not crooks, and they wouldn’t be thinking of taking off with that money. A Fistful of Diamonds — 12/21/70
General problem: the character of our two boys. In their own rough way, they should be a lot more sophisticated than they are in the present draft. They are more worldly. Curry is just as knowing as Heyes. The writer should go through the script and upgrade the level of sophistication. Our boys should be sharper, smoother. When they’re with women, they’re much more apt to say things like Cary Grant than like John Wayne. Journey from San Juan — 12/22/70
Where money is concerned, Curry doesn’t care how it comes. Journey from San Juan — 12/22/70
Actually [Michelle] heard all about them wherever they went in the West. Once they got across the Mississippi, people heard all about Heyes and Curry. Journey from San Juan — 12/22/70
Curry’s first entrance into it is a little angry, because he really doesn’t like Downs. But Curry should not be the chip-on-the-shoulder guy. Stagecoach Seven — 1/7/71
Note: our boys must not get the money, because if they ever got a big sum they would leave the country. They’d go to South America. They can never come out ahead — but they can drive big bargains. Never Trust an Honest Man — 1/25/71 Heyes and Curry…still have a lot of larceny, self-centered instinct for survival, etc. Stagecoach Seven — 2/1/71
He uses the guy as his partner — because Heyes always works with a partner. How to Rob A Bank in One Hard Lesson — 4/1/71
Curry — although he’s confident — never faces a situation like this (a shootout) with boredom or smiling contempt, because he could come up against someone someday who is better than he is. So he’s looking, at the least, neutral, and even possibly worried. Jailbreak at Junction City — 5/11/71
They’re not free to go around telling people they’ve been promised an amnesty. They have, in fact, done so. Jailbreak at Junction City — 5/11/71
Lom says there’s nobody he can think of who could open a Pierce & Hamilton 1878 Model Safe just by turning the dials — except Heyes. Heyes says, “I can’t even do that. I tried it once in the bank in Red Rock and I couldn’t do it!” Everything Else You Can Steal — 5/11/71
Note:…[Heyes] doesn’t think there’s anybody who can open a Pierce & Hamilton 1878 Model Safe just by listening. The safe is too good for that. The tumblers are silent. Everything Else You Can Steal — 5/11/71
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry have been bank robbers, train robbers, and all the rest of it for some time…. It’s very difficult to do what they used to do — which was without ever having to kill anybody. They had never even shot anybody…. Important note: our boys are wanted only in one state — Wyoming. Everything Else You Can Steal — 5/13/71
Heyes knows how to open [a Pierce & Hamilton 1878 Model Safe.] Everything Else You Can Steal — 5/13/71
Heyes is the brain. Curry is cooler, and he’s very fast with a gun. He is also more of a ladies’ man. Everything Else You Can Steal — 5/13/71
Later the modus operandi turns out to be very important. Heyes invented this method of robbing a safe. How to Rob A Bank in One Hard Lesson — 5/14/71
Our boys are not instant Good Samaritans. They are very reluctant to do anybody a good turn. The Bounty Hunter — 6/1/71
Note: Heyes and Curry have no prejudice. They were both born and raised in Kansas — and Heyes should make a point of that. The Bounty Hunter — 6/1/71 Note: our boys do any Good Samaritan deed shamefacedly. The Bounty Hunter — 6/1/71
Neither Heyes nor Curry have really used rifles very much in their lives. The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 6/1/71
They’re not wanted on any capital offense. They’re just wanted for robbery and they’ll get about twenty years. The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 6/1/71
“By the way, young fellow,” the Judge says [to Curry], “what states are you wanted in?” “Just in Wyoming, Your Honor.” The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 6/1/71
Note: our boys have really had very little contact with Indians. They’re not very sharp about Indians and Indian attitudes. They don’t know how to talk to the Indians, because neither of our boys speaks very good Spanish. They have picked up a little, but not very much. Six Strangers at Apache Springs — 6/3/71
At its most ordinary, our dialogue is “smart aleck” — and when it isn’t that, it’s oblique and witty. (Roy is using this term kiddingly. It really isn’t “smart aleck” he’s looking for — it’s an oblique and witty view of life, that comes out in the dialogue of Heyes and Curry.) The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 7/7/71
It is Curry who is good with a gun, not Heyes. The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 7/7/71
Curry and Heyes have a relationship wherein they needle each other. The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 7/7/71
[Drought] is a normal condition in this area, and Heyes knows it. He’s a Westerner. The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 7/7/71
There are no pictures of Heyes and Curry. No one knows what they look like, and that’s why they’re able to wander around the way they do. The Posse That Wouldn’t Quit — 7/7/71
The Chiricahuas…had a tradition of bravery and of independence — which Heyes could know about. Six Strangers at Apache Springs — 7/20/71
“We’re from Kansas,”…Now we learn that our boys are orphans. Their families lived right next to each other in Kansas, and they grew up together. There were southern raiders in Kansas during the Civil War. They tell Sister Julia they went to church before they were ten years old, and their folks had farms next to each other. Their farms were raided — and both Heyes and Curry were suddenly orphans. They grew up in what was practically a reform school — a school for kids.
who didn’t have any parents. They ran away when they were fifteen. After that, they didn’t have much time for church. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe — 7/20/71
“We almost never take a chance on anything noble,” Curry says. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe — 7/20/71
“I a
m Irish,” Heyes says. “No, you’re not,” she says. “Are you a Catholic?” “No.” “Then you’re not Irish,” Daisy says. “Well, my grandparents came from Belfast,” Heyes says. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe — 7/20/71
Our boys are equals. Curry does not always defer to Heyes. Curry is just as sharp as Heyes — but he just doesn’t scheme as thoroughly as Heyes. He is not as devious as Heyes. Heyes is an expert in figuring out how to rob a bank or how to handle a card cheat. Curry is a specialist in a fast draw. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe — 8/6/71
Both of our boys have a degree of sophistication. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe — 8/6/71
Our boys never do anything altruistic. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe — 8/6/71
“Do you have any idea what it’s like to be born to two immigrant Irish Catholics in 1860 in the United States?” Our boys don’t know what it’s like. The Reformation of Harry Briscoe — 8/6/71
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