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This segment from a "Best of Dick Cavett" series shows Mr.Cavett rehearsing for his appearance on Alias Smith and Jones. Mr. Cavett played a sheriff in the episode, 21 Days to Tenstrike. Click on a thumbnail photo below to view the full size version. To save a photo to your computer, click on it with your right mouse button, then fill in the "save as" information. After viewing the full size version, click the "back" button on your computer to return to this page.
Here is a transcript of what Dick Cavett was saying to the audience while the rehearsal film was being shown:
"I gotta show you something that I did last week. …
"I was, um. Years ago, I thought if I ever get into show business, the one thing I really want to do, sometime when I’m in show business, is be in a western. And I still want to be in a western. Every time, if I’ve had Kirk Douglas on the show or someone like that, I’d say I’d love to be in a western sometime if you’re ever making one. And they’d laugh and move on to something else.
"So when I was coming out here they arranged for me to be in a western show, not a movie but just like a movie cause it’s film. It’s a show. It’s Alias Smith and Jones. (Audience applauds.)
"And they said that I could be in that. I had a wonderful part. I had I think well over 3 lines of dialog. I had 4 lines if you count 'nope'. But I wanted to see what these actors go through. They always say its drudgery you know to be stuck in a western or any series because it’s awfully hard work. You have to get up in the morning and all. And I wanted to see what they did. So I had one days work in a western. We have some film …
"Now we’re on the set. This is the jail. That’s the director Mel Farber. There’s an old rule, never be in a western directed by a man named Mel. But I... Oh that’s a shot of Pete Duel. This is me with Walter Brennan. Walter Brennan wondered why they made me up so young. Now what you're going see here is sort of rehearsal of the scene. "Peter Duel and Ben Murphy coming in there. That’s Walter Brennan in the jail. I’m the sheriff. They gave me a left handed pistol so you can’t really see it in the shot, it was on my other hip. Now this is shot from above. Rehearsal. People coming over, telling me how to act. Mel Farber again. I went through 2 cigars that one of the stage hands gave me and I was nearly passing out. Oh here I am signing autographs for the fan who appeared."
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