Magic Hour          

HARRY HARRIS, JR.  

          Watch episodes of the late-1950s Rory Calhoun cowboy series The Texan, 
and there's a good chance it was edited by Harry Harris.  
          He moved on to directing in the 60s, most notably the b&w tv westerns 
Wanted: Dead or Alive, Rawhide, and Tales of Wells Fargo.  
          Harris directed sixty-five episodes of Gunsmoke.  
After doing five half-hours, he directed the first hour-long episode, 'Perce.'  
          Twenty-two of Kathleen Hite's Gunsmoke scripts were directed by Harris.  
          A bigger mystery than the fact that Harris sometimes 
affixed a Jr. to his name and at other times did not, 
is that when Kathleen Hite wrote a script & Harry Harris directed it, 
the episode was almost always...  magic.  

Season 7  
Miss Kitty----------------------------October 14, 1961------------ep# 236/7-3 
Apprentice Doc----------------------December 9, 1961-----------ep# 244/7-11 
Lacey---------------------------------January 13, 1962------------ep# 249/7-16 
Cale-----------------------------------May 5, 1962-----------------ep# 264/7-31 

Season 8  
The Search---------------------------September 15, 1962--------ep# 268/8-1 
Call Me Dodie-----------------------September 22, 1962--------ep# 269/8-2 
Collie's Free--------------------------October 20, 1962----------ep# 273/8-6 
The Way It Is------------------------December 1, 1962----------ep# 279/8-12 
Cotter's Girl--------------------------January 19, 1963-----------ep# 286/8-19 
The Cousin---------------------------February 2, 1963-----------ep# 288/8-21 
Anybody Can Kill a Marshal--------March 8, 1963--------------ep# 293/8-26 
I Call Him Wonder------------------March 23, 1963------------ep# 295/8-28  

Season 9  
Kate Heller--------------------------September 28, 1963----------ep #306/9-1 
Legends Don't Sleep----------------October 12, 1963-------------ep #308/9-3 
My Sister's Keeper------------------November 2, 1963-----------ep #311/9-6 
Quint's Trail-------------------------November 9, 1963-----------ep #312/9-7 
Friend--------------------------------January 25, 1964-------------ep #322/9-17 
Comanches Is Soft------------------March 7, 1964----------------ep #328/9-23 
Scot Free----------------------------May 9, 1964------------------ep #337/9-32 

Season 10  
Take Her, She's Cheap-------------October 31, 1964-------------ep#347/10-6 
Help Me Kitty-----------------------November 7, 1964-----------ep#348/10-7 
Gilt Guilt----------------------------April 24, 1965----------------ep#372/10-31 





THE WALTONS  

The Sermon                               September 11, 1975  
The Vigil                                     September 30, 1976  
The Career Girl                          January 27, 1977  
The Stray                                    September 22, 1977   
The Return                                March 16, 1978  
The Parting                                January 18, 1979  

A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain     November 22, 1982  





FALCON CREST  

Heir Apparent                            March 19, 1982                   





June 6, 2005  


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