Joel Higgins
Marshal Sam Best
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- 1. Pilot Sep 10, 1981
- Sam moves his family from Philadelphia to the Wild West.
- 2. The Prisoner Sep 17, 1981
- A sheriff's heart attack leaves Sam in charge of a prisoner.
- 3. Mail Order Bride Sep 24, 1981
- Doc Kullens learns his mail-order bride is a former hooker.
Best of the West: Created by Earl Pomerantz. With Joel Higgins, Carlene Watkins, Meeno Peluce, Valri Bromfield. The Wild West misadventures of a mild-mannered store owner turned town Marshal.
- (282)
- 1981-09-10
- Comedy, Western
- 30
Synopsis. The Old West spoof featured the misadventures of Sam Best (Joel Higgins), a Civil War veteran who becomes a marshal in Copper Creek after accidentally scaring off an incompetent gunfighter called the Calico Kid (Christopher Lloyd).
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Best of the West. Seasons Years Top-rated. #1 ∙ S1.E14 ∙ Frog's First Gunfight. Thu, Jan 7, 1982. Amos Skinner comes to town to marry his unhappy girlfriend Merilee, but finds she has been flirting with Frog and wants to kill him. This leads to a confrontation in the saloon.
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Season 1. S1, Ep1. 10 Sep. 1981. Pilot. 7.2 (15) Rate. Immediately after the Civil War, a union soldier takes his southern belle wife to Montana, planning to open a general store and helping change part the wilderness into a thriving community.
Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982. An unwitting city slicker is made the marshal of a lawless town in this absurdist Western that pokes gentle but clever fun at the genre's stock plots and characters.
