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The adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son.

S02E10 Letter of the Law (Dec.01.1959)
Stars Chuck Connors Johnny Crawford Paul Fix Ken Lynch John Goddard Paul Carr Michael Fox Harlan Warde Milton Parsons Rhys Williams Vic Morrow​
An outlaw gang kidnaps Micah and threatens to kill him unless their leader is released from jail. Lucas must decide whether to turn loose the notorious killer or face the possibility of the murder of his friend Micah.​
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A young man who is hounded by fear of other people moves to the West, hoping the experience will toughen him up.​
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An ex-convict with a grudge against Lucas comes to town determined to kill him.​
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A fleeing bank robber decides that the McCain ranch is a good place to hide out, so he holds Lucas and Mark prisoner in their own home until the heat dies down.​
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Gabe Fenway, a sharecropper for local landlord Preston, plans to run his quarterhorse Sapphire in a local horse race. Mark also plans to race his horse, Blueboy, in the race. Preston, who wants to keep all of Fenway's crops, believes Mark's horse can beat Fenway's and tricks Fenway into betting his crop against Preston's $1000 that Mark will win. And to make sure that... Read all​
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With all the many classic tv series I’ve posted here, The Rifleman has garnered more comments in one day than most others have in the last 8 months. That is certainly a testament to what a beloved classic it is!
 
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Outlaws take Mark hostage in order to force Lucas to help them rob the bank in North Fork.​
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Lucas and Mark interrupt two young men stealing horses. Lucas is forced to defend himself and shoots and kills one of the men. He is one of Ma Boyle's sons. The Boyles are a mountain family who live by their own laws and Micah foresees trouble. When the clan arrives in town they are set on hanging the man responsible for the killing.​
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Seven escaped prisoners terrorize the town of North Fork. The leader has a personal grudge against Lucas McCain that he must settle before leaving the town.​
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According to the stipulations in a bizarre will, the citizens of North Fork will divide $100,000 if Lucas McCain dies within seven days of Sarah Caruthers. The vicious old woman has hated Lucas ever since he killed her husband during a robbery.​
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Mark and Lucas help a young man muted by a traumatic past.​
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I know this compilation has been posted before, but the situation calls for it...fan created video of The Rifleman in action across five years and 120 righteous killings by Lucas McCain (definitely not all of 'em)...I think Sam Peckinpah rings the bell for each of them, with multiple trifectas along the way...starts with a rarely seen later season opening...Vic Morrow, John Anderson and Claude Akins (among others) had the honor of being killed more than once...Lucas kills his own likeness at #101, in S4's Deadly Image...


I imagine that just about the time that, acting on viewer complaints and some congressional grandstanding, the FCC considered a hearing about violence on TV as seen in The Rifleman, Levy-Gardner-Laven would call down to the writer's bullpen to produce another 'Faith episode', allowing for a good sermon by Chuck Connors on how much Lucas detested violence and that mayhem was no way to settle grudges in the old west...while the dry goods store in North Fork received another keg of Winchester .44 bullets for next week's show, ha, ha...

Apparently, Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev was a big fan and became friends with Chuck Connors after meeting him at a Nixon White House reception.

Spoofed by Mad Magazine as "The Rifle, Man!"
 
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A book salesman gives flower seeds to a woman whose husband is away from home. He then covers her mouth with one of his hands as she tries to scream for help.​
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When he sees the face of a young man who is calling him out, Lucas experiences a shocking flashback to his civil war days.​
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After his herd is wiped out by hoof-and-mouth disease, McCain agrees to serve as an undercover detective for the U.S. government in order to raise enough cash to buy more cattle. He travels to Wyoming to learn the source of the repeating rifles that have fallen into the hands of rebellious Cheyenne Indians.​
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Lucas continues his undercover assignment - searching for the source of repeating rifles that have fallen into the hands of renegade Indians. Meanwhile McCain's absence is keenly felt back in North Fork.​
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When Micah's recurring nightmares drives him back to drunkenness, Lucas decides that the marshal must confront the source of those nightmares - a gunslinger he failed to face down sixteen years before.​
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Clarence, Millie's mop boy, is wearing a gun he just cleaned for a customer. When he accidentally kills a famous outlaw, some locals play up their new friend's reputation hoping for more fun as they expect his partner to come to town.​
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Lucas and Mark are in the barn. Outside a snowstorm is raging and the wind is howling. After they reach the house, they hear Scotty, the driver on a stagecoach. He asks to spend the night. The stagecoach passengers are also invited into the McCain home.​
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A gunfight with an unwilling participant brings a need for a doctor, but Doc Burrage is out of town. A doctor passing through North Fork volunteers to help. However, he and Lucas have a past, and not a good one.​
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In Mexico to buy a seed-bull, Lucas and Mark McCain fall prey to bandits. These bandits strip Lucas of his shirt, hat, and boots. Then they tie him to a tree and leave him to die while they ride off with his kidnapped son.​
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Lucas is asked to stand guard when $50,000 is transferred from a specially designed stagecoach strongbox to the North Fork Bank's vault. Sloan, a former bank clerk plans to rob the shipment with a couple of henchman and uses the general store as a base to launch their attack. Meanwhile, Milly and Mark are held captive in a back room, helpless to prevent the heist.​
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Lucas witnesses a shooting while repairing fencing on his property. When the man who did it is arrested, he is prepared to testify at the trial. Bribery and threats to his family and self are tried but may just backfire on the accused.​
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Two mountain men ride by the McCain ranch and one, Ambrose, is enamored with Lucas' rifle. He tries to trade for it but Lucas won't trade. He is set on getting the gun and later that night they return to ranch and try to steal it. In the scuffle Gorwin is accidentally killed. Lucas returns his horse to his people in the high country but Ambrose has lied about what hap... Read all​
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Lucas and Mark take in a young woman and her brother after the brother comes down with measles. But rumors are flying around that the young woman is a princess - not merely a woman who's yearning to be a farmer.​
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At night Micah stops by the North Fork jail to check on a prisoner named Charlie Gordo. Charlie does not want to go to Yuma prison to be hanged. He threatens Micah by telling him that if he tries to make him go, he will kill him.​
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A friend from Lucas' Army days buys a farm near North Fork. His daughter attracts a lot of curiosity since she's very beautiful and very deaf.​
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The stage arrives in North Fork, and a young lady gets off. She is Sally Walker, a niece of Milly. When Mark sees Sally, he is instantly smitten and stopped in his tracks by her good looks.​
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A super fast, black gunman who killed the 5 men the law allowed to murder his father years ago, demands that deputy McCain symbolically throw his badge in the dirt.​
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It's an interesting day in North Fork when a woman and her son arrive on a stagecoach. Before too long she sees Micah and thinks that he is her long lost husband.​
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When Lucas, Mark, and Micah get lost in Old Mexico, they are held hostage by a bunch of bandits who intend to kill the men and make Mark a slave. Micah is seriously hurt and buried alive - so it is all up to Lucas to save them.​
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While trapped in a ghost town saloon, Lucas tries to come up with a plan of escape in order to save his son and Micah after Mark refuses to leave without him.​
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Lucas arrives in North Fork to learn that a new arrival, Lou Mallory, has been been buying up land and some of the town's businesses. Mallory is a no-nonsense businesswoman, a self-starter who seems quite determined in looking after her own interests. Lucas even manages to get a very good price for Milly Scott's store, now that she's moved away. When the townsfolk lea... Read all​
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A famous fast gunslinger comes looking for his old friend Lucas to help him retire in North Fork, but 3 gunman followed him and want his help to dominate the town.​
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North Fork is eagerly awaiting a visit from a U.S. Senator who is promoting Statehood for the territory. Micah has received a telegram saying there might be an attempt on the Senator's life but isn't too worried since a troop of soldiers are in town and have just checked in at the hotel. Oddly, the soldiers arrived with a large coffin-like box which they've taken up t... Read all​
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Mark and Lucas disagree on the character of a man claiming to work for the circus. Lucas shoots the man during a robbery at the hotel, but Mark believes the man's story. This puts father and son at odds.​
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A famous gun fighter, whom Mark idolizes, is in town telling more of his stories. But this time, he tells one story too many and is challenged. Lucas begins thinking that maybe he's not "the most amazing man" after all.​
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A murder occurs in the railroad camp near North Fork. The accused is found in the McCain barn where Mark and Lou hid him. As a result, when Lucas goes to the trial he finds himself being tried with the accused.​
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Mark falls off his horse and becomes paralyzed. Doc Burrage confirms to Lucas that a visit to a hot spring may help. The only one near is a few days ride in the mountains and Lou offers to help. When they arrive they have to deal with the cold as well as three escaped convicts. To avoid discovery they have to hide which keeps them from lighting a fire. As it is gettin... Read all​
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Mark's grandfather visits, running from present troubles while seeking to resolve troubles from the past.​
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The Wild West adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community. Because Bonanza was such a long-running television series it will be presented season by season over the coming months.

Best Of Season One

S01E01 A Rose for Lotta (Sep.12.1959)
Stars Lorne Greene Pernell Roberts Dan Blocker Michael Landon Yvonne De Carlo George Macready Barry Kelley Willis Bouchey Christopher Dark Victor Sen Yung Sammee Tong Ned Glass​
Lotta Crabtree is hired by mining tycoon Alpheus Troy to lure one of the Cartwrights into town and hold him for ransom in exchange for Ponderosa timber rights.​
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The Cartwrights discover an old enemy killing steers on the Ponderosa. Their camp has a sickly woman who needs to get to the high desert country. When an innocent man is killed, Ben decides to boot them all back to California but he gets resistance from the others in the camp and some local miners who now believe Ben is hiding gold.​
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Philip Diedesheimer, a Pied Piper, is refused payment after he saves Virginia City's silver mines from a cave-in.​
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Little Joe and Adam join a posse bent on catching the murderers of Vannie Johnson. The longer they take to catch them, the more whipped into a lynching party they become, much to the liking of the grieving widower.​
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When one of the Morgan brothers is shot and killed by Ben during a bank holdup, they vow revenge. The friends he thought he had in town decide to hide away while a wounded Ben lays up waiting for them to ride into town.​
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Joe and Hoss shelter a pregnant Indian from a blizzard -- and Shoshones ordered to find her.​
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After tangling with bandits on the way to California to buy a prized bull for the Ponderosa, Little Joe fends off a pretty senorita and her jealous fiancé, while Hoss discovers that the bull has been spirited away by a little boy who is convinced that the Cartwrights plan to kill and eat his big bovine friend.​
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The Cartwrights come to the aid of Leta Malvet when she is ostracized by the community after her father and brother are hanged by a lynch mob for killing two men while trying to rob the stagecoach that they thought carried the Ponderosa's payroll. But Adam is sure that the gang will try again when they find out that the Malvets came up empty-handed and suspects that i... Read all​
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Ben and Adam are locked in jail, about to hung for a crime they didn't commit. Joe and Hoss must find out why the witnesses to the alleged crime have perjured themselves before the execution takes place. They receive help from an unexpected source, a drifter called Lassiter who is searching for the men who committed a lynching in Kansas years ago.​
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While in San Francisco, two of Ben's hired hands get shanghaied and so does Ben in the process of looking for them.​
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A woman dies. Her husband is in prison, and the sheriff needs someone to look after the boy until the boy's uncle can come to claim him. The Cartwrights begin to take care of the boy at the Ponderosa. When the boy arrives at the ranch, he does not know that his father is in prison. The boy learns the truth about his dad, and news reaches the Ponderosa that the convict... Read all​
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When a powerful gang plagues Virginia City with a murderous protection racket, the Cartwrights are determined to stop it even as it threatens them.​
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Dressed-up dandy (derby and cane), gambler, and lawman roams the West, charming women and defending the unjustly-accused. His primary weapon is his wit (and cane) rather than his gun.​

Bat encounters a group of wranglers who are stealing horses. A old flame of Bat's asks him to rescue her current beau, accused of murder and shackled to a tree by a lynch mob led by the slain man's brother who leads the wranglers.​
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Bat wins the contract of a young fighter from his unscrupulous manager, then trains him for one honest fight, betting all his poker winnings on it. The boxer's former manager doesn't want a fair fight and plans to ensure the boxer loses.​
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Bat responds to cry for help when a friend's small gambling house is threatened by rival casino owned by Big Keel Roberts. Roberts suggest that he and Bat play one hand of poker, with the winner gaining ownership of both casinos.​
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"The Commissioner" sent US special agent Steve Mitchell to exotic locales where he encounters adventure and international intrigue, all played out using extreme violence.

S01E01 The Alien Smuggler Story (Feb.13.1950)
Stars Brian Donlevy Herb Butterfield Jane Adams Paul Marion Ralph Moody Jan Arvan Tiny Stowe Betty Moran Anton Northpole​
Agent Steve Mitchell journeys to Portugal to help his friend and fellow agent bust a human smuggling operation.​
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Steve Mitchell is sent to the South China Seas to assume the identity of the mysterious Captain Jaeger with the mission of breaking up a huge gun-running operation.​
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Steve is sent to Stockholm, Sweden, to investigate a group of European professors who go conduct worldwide lecture tours. One of them is though to be a foreign agent carrying secrets back with him or her. An informant asks Steve to retrieve his son from a boarding school there, but finds the child has disappeared.​
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The Commissioner ships Special Agent Steve Mitchell off to the Swiss Alps to recover a document that proves the death of a foreign leader was no accident.​
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Steve is in Africa to learn the identity of the man who is stirring up trouble with the native witch doctor.​
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A Civil War map has been stolen by a foreign agent and Steve has been sent to investigate.​
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A Balkan general is found murdered and important documents he had have gone missing. Steve heads behind the Iron Curtain to find the paperwork that could aid the Allies.​
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Steve must secretly enter an Eastern European country to infiltrate a spy ring and through the air seems to be the only way.​
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Valuable Hapsburg art pieces have vanished and intelligence reports that may have gone overseas. Steve heads to Mexico to track down the rumors and hopefully recover the priceless art.​
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Steve travels to West Morocco to identify and stop saboteurs at a base being built.​
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A squad of Treasury Department agents, headed by "The Chief", go after counterfeiters and other criminals who commit crimes that fall under the Treasure Department's jurisdiction.

S01E04 The Case of the Castings (Oct.02.1950)
Stars Walter Greaza Martin Balsam Marry Patton Irving Winter Richard Abbott Alfred De La Fuente​
In this episode a simple IRS inquiry alerts the Treasury Men to investigate a jewelry store that has lots of visitors with full bags of stuff, but they always leave empty handed. Could this be illegal activity?
A rare episode of Treasury Men In Action when it was a live show on ABC in 1950. Interesting production values on this live show, as there are many outdoor scenes usually not present on live shows. The outdoor scenes were filmed segments, with the rest of the scenes live on stage. Mastered from a 16mm b-w kinescope. Moviecraft Inc.​
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Chad Smith is the protagonist in this light-hearted, family-oriented show about a police detective, his wife and their three children.

S01E01 Cindy (Jan.20.1971)
Stars Henry Fonda Janet Blair Ron Howard Michael-James Wixted Darleen Carr Heather Menzies-Urich June Vincent John Carter Yale Summers Wink Roberts Susan Abbott Vince Howard Ricky Powell Paul Barselou Kenner G. Kemp​
Chad arrests Cindy's best friend for marijuana possession, and Cindy's friends snub her when she is branded as a "narc."​
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A lawbreaker who has served his time in prison tries to resume his place in society but meets resistance. Chad Smith attempts to help the man get started but finds he cannot change people's attitudes.​
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Chad is used to his neighbors who consider him their private police force. But things turn personal when hippies rent a house on the block, and Chad is expected to be the spokesman to tell them they're not welcome.​
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Chad joins a task force to take down some gun-runners, two of which are ex-cons with a grudge against him. Chad tries to keep news of this dangerous duty from the family while dealing with his own anxiety.​
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Cindy's friend Lynn seems to have it all with wealthy parents who lavish her with gifts. When Lynn runs away to find herself, Chad is assigned to the parents' missing persons report.​
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Chad's latest investigation involves drugs being sold to local grammar school children.​
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Chad is assigned to a "lovers lane" mugging stakeout with a young female detective. Bob sees his father with her and assumes the worst.​

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A faded Hollywood starlet turns up in the precinct drunk tank. When Cindy and Bob hear about her from Chad, they take it upon themselves to bring her home and help her get back on her feet.​
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Chad's home life is the focus as he helps and advises each of the kids on their personal problems.​
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Chad trades a shift for a family commitment, and the detective working in his stead is killed during a routine call. Out of guilt, the Smith family begins overdoing favors for the dead officer's family.​

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A truck driver rescues Brian after he's hit by a car. The appreciative Smiths befriend the man, but his behavior raises suspicions in Chad. An investigation reveals that he's a fugitive from a murder conviction.​
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Chad agrees to take in a young girl who was a witness to a shooting. In doing so he puts his entire family in danger.​
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Chad and his partner investigate the bombing of an underground newspaper office. The publisher's anti-establishment attitude tends to obstruct their effort, as well as generate freedom of the press discussions at work and at home.​
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In order to throw attention away from Chad's investigation of her jewel thief boyfriend, a woman claims that Chad assaulted her.​
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Cindy's new boyfriend meets with Chad and Betty's approval being the guy next door with a promising future. But as they get to know him better they see disturbing behavior and try to convince Cindy to end the relationship.​
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