1.09 Last Train for Charlie Poe

[@AzizalSaqr]

I always judged my episodes by how much Johnny was in them, so I give this a yhumbs up for that reason, lots of Johnny.

[@debrarick9617]

Love Johnny no matter how dark the footage .. his sparkling jewelry is gorgeous and his hand & finger movements lighten up any scene. He totally steals the show!!!

[@marinapauig6843]

thank you u tube and all those people responsible for the "comeback" of my favorite show

[@AzizalSaqr]

I always loved how Johnny could sleep anywhere, no matter what was going on around him and how much trouble he might be in.

[@stephensorenson6559]

i was 11 when"lancer"first aired.when i first saw it on wcbs ch.2 when i lived in mt.vernon,NY in 68,i loved it.good show!

[@debrarick9617]

I was 10 when Lancer came out on wbtv channel and I was so in LOVE with James Stacy and loved everything he was in after his devastating wreck and loss of limbs, Cagney and Lacey, Wiseguy, Highway to Heaven. His life was so tragic !!! He was the same age as my daddy. Yet I wanted to marry him when I grew up!!! Then he died around the same time as my daddy. It was so sad...my daddy even looked a lot like James Stacy !!! Strange coincidence !!!

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@debrarick9617 9! 😉 It doesn't seem time has moved a another generation + some from then. Wow.

[@bethbartlett5692]

NW Tennessee 9 - Woodstock era

[@debrarick9617]

I'm old now. But I love the love scene...so sweet !!!!

[@mariemiller1547]

Love how Murdoch put Mr. Marks in his place saying he'll find him if anything happens to Johnny..

[@debrarick9617]

Totally true about the Dark footage can't see a thing...which is hard !! Some parts are not visable. But Johnny's sparkling jewelry in jail scenes made that Ok & fun to watch. But the love scenes between Poe & his wife are priceless !! Wish someone loved me like Poe & had such good friends as Lancer brothers!!!!

[@barbarawhite2928]

I REALLY LIKED THIS EPISODE, BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID IT REMIND ME OF THE OLD TIME WESTERN WITH TRAIN ROBBING, LAND DISPUTES, & HOMESTEAD INVASION, & UNNECESSARY MURDERS, THAT WAS DEMMED JUSTIFIABLE. IT WAS FUN TO SEE OUR TWO LANCER BROTHERS PLAYING TRAIN ROBBERS & GETTING AWAY WITH IT. BUT IN THE LONG RUN THE LANCERS, & CHARLIE POE SET EVERYTHING RIGHT. (NOTE) WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS EPISODE IT WAS ON CBS ON TUESDAY NIGHTS, NOW SOME 50 YEARS LATER VIA U_TUBE I WATCH THE SAME EPISODE AGAIN, AND AFTER ALL OF THIS TIME, I FINE THAT I STILL LIKE THIS EPISODE. A LANCER FAN 🎥🎥🎥🎥😍😍

[@christiancowboy352]

These are really some great written and acted series. It's a total shame that others back in the day didn't see it, and continued Lancer longer then 2 seasons.

[@alanoldham1700]

Good ol' Johnny Madrid with his red shirt in every episode.

[@lancerfan4231]

Lol Only first season. Second season he wears blue mostly.

[@lindacorreia428]

Now that I watched all the episodes he actually had same design but different colors, Dark Pink, Light Pink, Orange and Red !

[@debrarick9617]

They had to do retakes and had to make shirts alike...that was real sweat on those shirts as James Stacy (and his brother was his only stunt double) James was actually leaping on those horses and doing all the horse work !!! Wow. He was so athletic !!!

[@lindacorreia428]

@@debrarick9617 Yes I can see his brother in some episodes his brother louie who was a stuntman, slow the DVR down, the episode where they save Murdocks freinds daughter from marriage his brother is in there, scene where his going out the saloon door, another almost end of show where she's tied to a tree fight scene, that's not James Stacey fighting the double has a black band around his pant legs James Stacey's didn't, it looks like his brother louie ! Episode Junipers Camp !

[@debrarick9617]

@@lindacorreia428 I don't have a DVR. But I did see an interview where his brother said he was the stunt double for James

[@7colliemac]

This was an excellent episode.. the writers come up with top notch stories.. & perfectly casted. I’m 71 & never heard of this show in Australia. Thanks for uploading, I’ll keep watching.

[@debrarick9617]

Yeah saw stunt double!! Only an old article I pulled up said it wasn't always his brother Louie.. but it was James Stacy's sister who was the makeup artist for the show !!!!

[@Patricia-bs5ty]

you see the doubles at the beginning&end of every episode are you not watching the same episodes as the rest of us ?

[@debrarick9617]

LOVE JAMES STACY'S JEWELRY!! Wonder where you can get his blue beaded bracelet, big ring & medallion necklace !!! He does little things to show off his jewelry

[@AzizalSaqr]

Everybody always calls Johnny boy, as if he were a little kid, I figure Scott must be about 27, and Johnny maybe 23?

[@davidmahin874]

I have not seen TV western Lancer since I was a boy thank you hope to see more shows

[@bethbartlett5692]

...all the actors, so well known in the era.

[@mickcullen1176]

Lancer is up there with the likes of wagon train gunsmoke and bonanza

[@AzizalSaqr]

THERE IS A PANEL DISCUSSION ON KZbin with Robert Culler James Ztacy, and Clu Gulager(sp)Jim is wearing his red shirt(well faded), he looks to be in his 70's, but is still cute as ever

[@josephfinnegan151]

63,714 View's So Far: Lancer: Episode 9. Season 1. Episode 9. "Last Trajn For Charlie Poe". Tuesday, February 27 - 2024.

[@AzizalSaqr]

Did anyone else notice that JOhnny's bell bottoms changed in the second season? HE HAD HIS CONCHO ONES IN episode 13, but in episode 15, he was wearing a plain lighter brown pant with no conchos, must have been all those bullet holes wore them out finally, lol.

[@yeseniakrueger1863]

Ahh yes the old Spanish land grants...the Lancers have to live in the old Hacenda.. and with only 100k acres.. only a part of the first owners land..and the first owners owned the people on the the land also...

[@AzizalSaqr]

MAKES ME WONDER IF ANYONE ASKED HIM ABOUT HIS KEWELRY, I liked the little Blue ring on his middle finger, I wonder if the pr. was a St. Christopher, assuming Johnny was Catholic, coming from Mexico as he was, maybe not practicing but more for protection.

[@mickcullen1176]

Them lancer lads got hit or grazed with abullet nearly every week but never died must have been indestructsble still a great series though

[@AzizalSaqr]

What is H&I?

[@mickcullen1176]

I agree with marie miller murdoch lancer a guy not to be messed with

[@carljorgensen2813]

When you can’t see the movie that is not a good movie too dark..

[@scvandy3129]

This episode is near unwatchable, both as a "Lancer" story and as a viewing experience. It's close to being an anthology about old time train robbers that needs little to zero input from the Lancers. The first half of the show is essentially Johnny's and Harold Gould's characters frustratingly wasting away in jail. Not the ideal way to hold your audience's attention. They're victims. The corrupt sheriff reminds them over and over. The setting reminds viewers over and over, every boring minute. In contrast, in the near-perfect "Julie" episode, Scott being locked up was written and directed in a way it was compelling. Of course, having Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg and John Kellogg helped in that regard. Plus Johnny integral to Scott's crisis; and ACTIVE to relieve it. This episode's boring middle, like the boring first act and a half, involves two senior citizens manufacturing nitro for the train robbery. Not an exciting procedure, brewing explosive chemicals; dialogue hardly stimulating; AND, where are our Lancers?! The unforgivable dramatic sin is in climatic Act IV: photographing the what-should-be-exciting-train-hold-up in the cheap, old standby, day-for-night process. Sometimes it's successful, but not on 'Last Train for Charlie Poe.' It is SO dark one can't tell what's going on. We're talking an entire act that's unwatchable! The choices of stock footage of the train in motion and robbery in motion were underwhelming to the 10th degree. Furthermore, the old-timers, Harold Gould and Dub Taylor, are doing the "heavy lifting" during the crime. Scott and Johnny are nearly incidental. Too bad we don't have the definitive reference book devoted to "Lancer" -- surely it would explain the poor choice for doing the climatic train action using (sub-par) day-for-night and stock footage only. One theory is that the available stock footage shot in clear daytime is clearly evident as NOT being the principals in this episode. Therefore the nighttime footage was used where the bodies in motion, galloping horses and stepping atop the train's cars one at a time, could be Johnny or Scott. I usually like the work of character actor Frank Marth, here playing the (corrupt) sheriff, but this is the first of his two "Lancer" guest appearances where he unnecessarily uses a Southern accent. And, his skill at doing a Southern accent is lacking. So bad it's distracting. Finally, there's no need for either of his "Lancer" characters, the other in the 2nd season where Jelly buys a Brahma bull, to have a Southern accent. This is Northern California for heaven's sake; his character’s dialogue implies he’s lived nearby for decades. Very sad about the off-camera, murder by gunfire of the Gould's handyman, who's conscientious enough to come back to the farm to water the livestock. And, for his good deeds gets killed. That capital crime was infinitely worse than any larceny. But it doesn't seem to be given a priority, even by the honest judge at the conclusion. Okay, speaking of conclusion: SPOILER ALERT !! The surprise of Charlie Poe surprising his "widow" that he indeed is alive betrays the fact that the stock footage used of the nitroglycerin explosion -- initiated by partner Dub Taylor -- is so intense, visually and sound-wise, it approximates a nuclear blast of epic proportions. How could anyone within a quarter mile survive that?! I'm a "Lancer" fan going back to first run, 1968, half a century ago! Who else would go on this long on a KZbin comment?! I remember seeing "Charlie Poe" again 20 years ago via a very welcome syndication or cable cast of the "Lancer" series and remembering I didn't care for it. Now, having the opportunity to see this good quality copy provided by the generous, thoughtful "Lancer Fan," I can see, hear and shutter at all its many faults. I'm surprised that 50 years ago the program executives at CBS or 20th Century Fox Television let this one even air. Perhaps telling producer Alan A. Armer to start ALL OVER or forego this episode entirely. Yes, devotees to all things "Lancer," Wayne Maunder, James Stacy, Elizabeth Baur, Andrew Duggan, 'Last Train for Charlie Poe' is THAT bad.

[@lancerfan4231]

Accurate and we'll written! Thanks. And there is the reason Lancer Fan Fiction has thrived. The writing left much to be desired. Thanks for your thoughtful post.

[@jfranklins]

Totally disagree with you. This was a good episode.

[@calamityjane2913]

I agree that the Lancers are incidential throughout the whole episode. I think it's basically the story of Charlie and Molly's love for each other and how it endures through all the hardships that life throws at them. The two actors playing those characters do a great job. As a thirteen year-old I'm sure this ep would've been drab and uninteresting but fifty odd years down the line I can appreciate the acting talents of 'Charlie' and 'Molly' and their heart-warming love story.!

[@debrarick9617]

You know so much about it. I think you should write the definitive book about Lancer!!! *-)

[@breezinbyu]

It's the poor quality of this video that makes the dark scenes terrible. If you watch this episode on H&I it's a thousand times better lighting. But, yes, the old night filter that was used back in the day was crummy quality, regardless of the show or movie it was used on. I really wish the legal owners of the original series would do a digital remastering and authorize a release on DVD. I doubt that will ever happen. The perfect time would have been when Once Upon A Time in Hollywood was released, but Tarantino was criticized badly for featuring James Stacy in a positive way and I'm sure that put a halt to any plans to do an official Lancer dvd set.