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| March 27th, 2016 at 1:16:50 PM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | While Chuck Connors is quoted as saying that his character killed 2.5 people on average, several other sources count 120 deaths by his character out of 168 episodes. I haven't seen 3.5 per episode anywhere else. I've watched a lot of Rifleman episodes, and that number just didn't ring true with me. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| March 27th, 2016 at 2:27:10 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
It was on American Pickers. They found a 60's Rifleman gun in a barn and blurb came up stating that 3.5 were killed on average per ep. Even 2.5 is ridiculous, even 1 is silly. The badest of the bad in the Old West killed very few in their whole career. Killing was a big deal then, just like it is now. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| March 27th, 2016 at 2:48:31 PM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | As long as you don't count killing savages for scalps or sport, or just wiping out the buffalo, or giving away infected blankets as killing. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| March 27th, 2016 at 4:55:17 PM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
The way you just said it, it sounds like they were talking about all deaths on the show, not just people Lucas McCain killed. Anyway, it was a western tv show, they killed lots of people. I recall someone did an analysis of the murder rate per capita in Cabot Cove, home of Murder, She Wrote. It was astronomically high. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| March 27th, 2016 at 5:37:41 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11796 |
The TV series Dexter is about a serial murderer in Miami His 117 murders would account for 15% to 20% of the murders in Miami from 2006 to 2013 Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| March 28th, 2016 at 9:00:27 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
Note that most of the murders were not identified as actual murders. Bad folks simply went missing, and it was assumed they moved out of the area. |
| March 28th, 2016 at 9:02:44 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
Hehe.. Same with Las Vegas and the original CSI. |