Posted on 12/13/2025 3:46:45 PM PST by BFW
When the inscrutable Dr. Lao (Tony Randall) and his mystical Chinese medicine show roll into the Wild West settlement of Abalone, Arizona, he ends up in the middle of an ongoing feud between a ruthless land baron, Clint Stark (Arthur O'Connell), and an idealistic newspaper editor, Ed Cunningham (John Ericson). The shape-shifting Dr. Lao soon weighs in on the battle, as well as the problems of widowed librarian Angela (Barbara Eden) and her ambitious young son, Mike.
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Danged good movie!!
Love it.
It was moronic, even for t.v.
Great movie!!
I was quite taken by this movie when I saw it on TV, back in the 1970s.
My children didn’t like it that much though.
Enjoyed this as a kid. Good clean fun.
I haven’t seen it for 15-20 years, but I thought it was a very good movie, and was amazed at Tony Randall’s ‘range’.
Anyone else see parallels to “Something Wicked, This Way Comes”? ... Something Wicked may be a little darker, but some of the ‘lessons’ are quite similar.
Now that I see it has both Barbara Eden and Frank Cady (Sam Drucker), I may have to give it a chance.
That scene where the seer tells the old woman she’ll get older but no wiser, stiffer but not more dignified...one of the saddest things I ever heard!
The rest of the film...was just weird. I was very young, maybe it just went over my head?
Sheriff Andy Taylor: Nature's been good to you. I mean real, real, *real* good! I - I can't remember when I've seen nature spend as much time on any one person.
Amen to that, brother.
Yeah, I remember that one. It’s okay if you’re 9 yrs old.
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