BarBara Luna marries Doug McClure! GUNSMOKE & HAVE GUN's frightening experiences! Plus STAR TREK!

[@joansmith1195]

Barbara is a delight. She is a treasure trove of stories from the golden age of television especially the westerns. Thank you for such an enjoyable interview.

[@alan30189]

The only problem I have about these interviews is they’re not long enough. They should be at least an hour long. These people aren’t going to be around much longer.

[@Orrymain1]

I've commented on him before, but I think Doug McClure was a very nice man. He really encouraged me at one point about something very silly and common, and he barely knew me. It's been ages since that moment, but I've never forgotten it. I love hearing Barbara speaking about him so fondly.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Orry.

[@kaye8231]

Orrymain--I love your nickname! As for myself, I was a huge George Hazard fan.

[@frankolsen9568]

These videos will be historic gold forever, please archive. So much is lost.

[@OdeeOz]

Babara Luna, is another heart breaker ... Of millions of young adults. What a life and career she has had too. Thanks for keeping these interviews a going concern, RW. The memories they revive are priceless.

[@mojavewolf1]

This actress is so Sweet . A genuine person . Had me laughing a few times . Really enjoyed this

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Pam.

[@steveinge7058]

"You were naive, too." Good one, Rob! I greatly enjoyed hearing about Guy Williams and Doug McClure.

[@intuitive7274]

Doug McClure was a very pleasant and positive person. We were all be blessed by having him do films and TV

[@timothyplonk6881]

Thanks for showing this interview with Barbara Luna. An era in Hollywood in which real stars were produced.👍

[@er5406]

Thank you for that interview. Miss Barbara is a lovely person. I can remember her in a lots of 60’s westerns and I must confess I went to Star Trek conventions before they were called cons.

[@37903eral]

Thank you Rob for your time in keeping the westerns alive and the actor's as well.

[@AWordonWesterns]

You bet, Dennis. Thanks!

[@AB-uh3qe]

Actors like Mr. McClure during that times Deserve so much respect. The actors of today will sell their mother for a dollar. I love your show she’s a great actress and all the shows she’s done.

[@openmind763]

Today's actors would definitely sell their mother for a dollar and today's dollar is not worth that much and particularly with the inflation going is like a penny compared to back then.👍👍👍👍

[@carolyngrubb4076]

This is great I like theses shows

[@debbiegoble9836]

I watch The Virginia everyday. I just wonder where he got the name on the show from.

[@alan30189]

I remember his role as Trampas on the “The Virginian” and one of the funniest things I remember the most, was one of the characters in an episode calling him “Trampass.” LOL! 😂🤣

[@ginnylorenz5265]

What a lovely, down-to-earth, gracious, honest LADY!! Rob Wood knows how to let a person tell their story. Thanks for this great interview.

[@williamclifford9757]

Barbara Luna is a CLASS ACT. Thanks for sharing such fabulous times of early television.

[@efhs1970]

Rob, absolutely one of the best guest on your program ever! What a delightful lady! Thanks for sharing!💫

[@arlineabdalian8974]

Many thanks, Rob, for another fine interview. I would have loved to hear BarBara's memories of her turn as Miranda in her scenes with Peter Breck and Barbara Stanwyck on that superb 1968 Big Valley episode. And of course as a Trekker/Trekkie I have long admired her performance as Lt. Marlena Moreau in "Mirror, Mirror". A fine, gifted and multi-talented actress. Many thanks again for sharing this interview with us!

[@genepoolbooboo]

I loved her role in Gunsmoke where she fell in love with Chester in their seventh season on the series. She and Dennis Weaver were wonderful. Doug McClure was special. Had a huge crush on him. Who didn’t? Lol

[@bessiemorris5282]

Good Sunday to you Rob wow miss Luna is so beautiful she hasn't changed a bit love her and just so thankful she's still here with us have seen her in many westerns what a great actress thank you for this great video this is a real treat Rob

[@susanrutherford866]

Thanks rob for another great interview wonderful memories from barbara luna i loved doug mcclure in the virginian watched it here in australia in the early seventies also loved james drury as the virginian sadly both no longer with us thanks.!!!!

[@davek5027]

Great interview! I had a huge crush on Miss Luna when I was a kid back in the 60’s and 70’s. Fantastic to hear her stories.

[@pattiwhite9575]

OMG I remember her. She was in so many things. She has hardly even aged. She is quick with humor and remembers so much. She must have had a wonderful life.

[@priscillaL83]

Her hair is amaaaazing!! I love watching interviews of the older actors and actresses. They are so well spoken and have wonderful stories to tell. They were so much more beautiful too.

[@cherylrichards8951]

"Mirror, Mirror" is one of my favorite episodes. 🖖 Ms. Luna.

[@mjemigh3304]

I'm sure I've seen her a lot over the years, but all I remembered until now was Star Trek. What a great personality! What astounded me the most, however, is the fact that you are older than MY broken-down old self. Good thing I'm headed to the gym in a couple hours to help preserve what's left! Great interview, as expected, Rob. Thanks!

[@atreb56]

Thank you very much for this excellent video. Ms. Luna is a captivating storyteller. I'm glad she was in my favorite Western The High Chaparral.

[@Riogi]

What a delight to view this interview. Thank you for sharing it with us. Ms. Luna is a real sweetheart.

[@patrickmooney4135]

One of my all time favorite actresses. She's perfection in my book. Thanks.

[@gerardjohnson2106]

Watching this interview was a real treat. Luna is a true legend in the industry. Thanks for sharing

[@maxthepupp]

I LOVE the sincerity of this channel and the guests that come on! Anecdotal stories about the shows you grew up with is so cool.❤

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thank you very much, Max. We're thinking of adding a Podcast channel, too.

[@jerrybraswell3958]

This is the best interview I've seen on this program. Barbara Luna is fabulously entertaining and still a beauty.

[@stevekitt52]

Really enjoyed that interview. Thanks, Rob 👍👍🇬🇧

[@johnnychurch4476]

Love these classic interviews. So informative about the guest and all the acquaintances they have had during their careers

[@marksheffer625]

Very cool I can see why Doug McClure always had a big smile . Great interview Rob thank you

[@hiramnoone]

BarBara Luna was also in "Ship of Fools" with Lee Marvin who was nearly beaten to death in the film by an enraged Vivien Leigh, with a high heel shoe of all things. Which Marvin kept as a memento from that film for the rest of his life. Zorro was almost as big a craze among Boomer kids as Davy Crockett. So there was hardly a mailbox, garage door or grade school blackboard that didn't have a Guy Williams "Z" marked on it by some boomer kid imagining himself as his caped hero. BarBara was a great sexy beauty and a terrific actress who made the guest star rounds on mosta the great western shows in those days, so it's not surprising Paladin when she appeared on his show put the moves on her. No one had an unkind word to say about Doug McClure who really must have been a truly great guy, as well as an iconic character in The Virginian as Trampas. Highly entertaining full-length show with BarBara. Great memories from a very classy lady.

[@johnholliday5874]

Somewhere in a dusty album is a picture of me in my Davy Crockett outfit. And sure enough, a couple of years later I had a black hat, mask, cape and sword and would go riding through the night on my trusty hobby horse. Scratching "Zs" in public places. Also guilty.

[@hiramnoone]

@@johnholliday5874 Yeah. Fortunes were made by enterprising marketers on both those crazes. If you were in the glassware wallpaper bubble gum trading card or boys pajama business for instance? You found by slapping a Davy or Zorro related image on your product, or even retrofitting summa your dusty inventory you could quintuple your sales as well as unload all your unsaleable junk.

[@joansmith1195]

Vivien Leigh,Scarlett in GWTW Janet Leigh was in Psycho.

[@hiramnoone]

@@joansmith1195 Oops!

[@garydavidson1970]

What a wonderful interview with a beautiful and really fun guest. Thanks, Rob!

[@AWordonWesterns]

You bet, Gary. Thanks.

[@MrCoconutcat]

I love me some spaghetti westerns and now I can listen to interviews from the actors marvelous darling

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, CJ

[@MIKEKELLEY12000]

Great interview, as usual, Rob.

[@templer46]

She was my childhood "Wow Girl." In my eyes, she always stood-out from the others. Thanks for the interview.

[@Paladin1873]

I enjoyed seeing this (extended) interview again (this time with my wife). Barbara Luna is so witty, and my wife was impressed by her ageless beauty. By coincidence, last week we just finished watching the entire Disney Zorro series, including the 1960 and 1961 specials. I've never enjoyed a television show more than I did this wonderful series. I can't say enough about how impressive the casting, writing, acting, and stunts were. I doubt it will ever be topped. As for never having seen a western you didn't like, I have to ask if you ever watched Shotgun Slade. I made it through one episode and stopped.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Of course, I liked SHOTGUN SLADE. I've still got the soundtrack LP with the Peter Gunn style score...which kinda didn't work. But, hey, Col K, IT'S A WESTERN!

[@Paladin1873]

@@AWordonWesterns That was one of my major gripes about it (and I love Peter Gunn and Henry Mancini). Also, he was using a type of shotgun that was not yet invented. I know, I know. Most of the handguns and rifles featured in those old TV westerns were slightly anachronistic, but at least they closely mimicked the guns of the period.

[@Truthteller58-z3c]

The Greatest Western series to me is the Virginian I was a child when it came out so it's practically a new show to me I'm obsessed with this show in 2022 I'm now a fan of doug McClure and James Drury James was so cool as the Virginian 😎 loved his acting both actors very handsome loved but never forget.

[@ginnywalker184]

Thanks for sharing this interview. I love hearing about the experiences of actors interacting with others and how they came to meet so many others.

[@takkmoran9770]

Great show, Rob! BarBara Luna is probably more recognizable and better remembered than many of the series stars from the 60s because she was in so many different series and movies. No "Star Trek" fan will ever forget her appearance in that series. Wonderful to hear her stories and memories from all those great shows. Thanks Rob, for another enjoyable episode!!!

[@kingskountry1246]

Loved the stories. As for Doug, he had the most amazing smile. Think it started at his toenails and worked it's way up to brilliant.

[@OdeeOz]

@@kingskountry1246 Now that's country funny!

[@leonardcaplan2022]

Funny, many Westerns used that plot a lot!

[@tonyrome5584]

Great episode Rob! BarBara Luna, what a beautiful sweet talented lady!! Keep those wonderful interviews going, they bring back so many memories and add special touches to them!!!

[@waynegilchrist1596]

Oh Lord how I remember Barbara Luna in every role you showed her in and then some! The both of you were great Rob. Like you jokingly mentioned it being you that was being interviewed; she really did make it seem that way. You both looked like you were having a delightful time. I miss Doug McClure too. He always seemed so carefree and congenial.

[@viktoriaironpride4977]

I always liked Doug McClure, especially his self-deprecating sense of humor. He seemed like a very nice person, but he was so young when he died!

[@AWordonWesterns]

For sure, Vik. He was only 59. I miss him and was a pallbearer at his funeral. Others I remember were James Drury, Bobby Hoy, Bob Fuller.

[@viktoriaironpride4977]

@@AWordonWesterns Odd that you should mention Bobby Hoy. He was and remains a great favorite of mine, especially in The High Chaparral, which I turn on every a.m. as I do my transcribing work at home (because of pandemic). I always thought he was a fine actor (needless to say) and very attractive (OK, I admit it--I always thought he looked perfectly fine in his snug-fitting ranch pants--) The bunkhouse boys on Chaparral were such a group of fine, fine character actors (all these Western character actors are first-rate), and, sadly, so many of the cast members have passed relatively recently--beautiful, beautiful Linda Cristal, Henry Darrow, Don Collier (beautiful blue eyes!) but they will live forever on film.

[@lorenzosimpson8039]

This is the best show on You Tube.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, lorenzo. That means a lot.

[@prycerobertson4695]

She is so beautiful inside and out. Great interview as always!

[@johnmilner7603]

Nothing today will beat the TV shows that I watched in the 60’s and 70’s.

[@cdfreester]

Love Barbara Luna. Especially loved her not only in Star Trek, but she had a great role in the 2nd season of Hawaii Five-O, playing off of James MacArthur, Harry Guardino, and Jack Lord. Classic.

[@davidschlecht3016]

Rob, another great interview a very talented woman and how she fit in with so many talented people bringing back so many memories of them all.

[@donaldoehl7690]

I've heard that Doug McClure was a huge Simpson's fan and he was very amused by the character Troy McClure.

[@ericmccurry8907]

I think this is by far the best interview I have ever seen so respectful tasteful just wonderful

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Eric.

[@doberman1ism]

It was so wonderful to see her again after all of these years. I was a young teenager when I saw her on all those different shows and now my hair is white and very long and, I too, can not believe 50 years has flown by. Ms. Luna is so charming and lovely and has obviously taken care of her self. Thank you for this wonderful and charming interview.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Aidah

[@trotterhorsewatsonjr.6668]

I like when you have character actors who talk candid about the stars they worked with!

[@AWordonWesterns]

Me, too, Trotter. Thanks.

[@paulkitt2376]

Great interview Rob. Barbara told some great stories. I guess part of interviewing is making the guest feel at ease to tell stories and you definitely do that.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Paul. I tell them that it's not a normal interview but a conversation about their work in westerns and will see where it takes us. It's a lot more fun for me, too.

[@edithdavis2848]

Thank you Rob. Barbara Luna a great actress and heartthrob Doug McClure two really great people.

[@mickey2117]

Very nice interview. I loved watching her in anything. She was so beautiful (still is). Thanks, Rob!

[@AWordonWesterns]

Glad you enjoyed it, Mickey.

[@elizabethbeckman1947]

Comments say it all, Rob. Thanks so much for sharing. This, one of my favorites, and I like the add, the unused footage. The finish is poignant because universal themes were as much '50s Wagon Train as '60s Star Trek. Feels like we need to get back to that.

[@earlschleiden3629]

Ki

[@lauvonfr9222]

This was such an awesome interview. I:m a western fanatic and have seen do many of Barbara Luna's movies. The host was an excellent interviewer with a great sense of humor.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Lauvon. More interviews every Sunday.

[@francistubolino8810]

Rob, another great one! She's a delight!

[@rsykesjr]

Another bright star from television’s golden era, still beautiful and like Will Hutchins from another recent interview a truly genuine down to earth person. 🙂

[@jamesthackeray7421]

I got to tell you that this show is the best show!! I really enjoy it and I hope you do it for a very long long time😉👍

[@AWordonWesterns]

I hope so too, James. Thanks. Spread the WORD.

[@thedoxinator3934]

Rob, that was a great interview…I laughed the way you referred to her as LUNA @ 14:18 & 21:39 ….👍

[@nicfewer8393]

I'm friends with her and Doug's family, she likes to be called Luna.

[@thedoxinator3934]

@@nicfewer8393 cool, what is the origin of the nickname LUNA

[@buddylobos5277]

Of course I remember her on High Chaparral with Henry Darrow. Just watched again last week. Funny episode. I admit alot of the westerns I didn't watch or even remember. WOW has given me a brand new appreciation for all of them and all the background work that went into them. I watch the credits closely now because of your show "Gunsmoke" really still stands up today as the best of the best. Thanks Rob. By all of your indications I figured we are about the same age. (Here comes 70 on 12/23.)

[@AWordonWesterns]

Sure glad you are enjoying all of my efforts, buddy. It's great fun for me and I always love hearing the stories about the shows and films I love. Responding to this now, Sep 2024, I'm 77. We grew up in a terrific era.

[@Tone76602]

I really liked this interview that you did. Thank You for the many others thru the years.

[@JRobbySh]

A really attractive figure. As for her husband, one of my favorite films is “Shenandoah” and the scene he shot with James Stewart.. Such a pleasant person.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks. I interviewed Rosemary Forsyth about working with Doug on SHENANDOAH. I feel that it's director McLaglen's best feature.

[@perniciouspete4986]

"Burn the train!"

[@johnnewcomb534]

Barbara Luna is terrific and ageless great interview.

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, John.

[@loreebrew38]

It pleasantly surprises me how sweet, nice smart and down to earth she is.

[@speedracer1945]

She always stand out in mind when I think of the roles she's been in like Star Trek and the Wild wild West.

[@JeffElkins]

This was excellent and not nearly long enough!

[@tod1045]

Spent an evening at the Hog's Breath Inn in Carmel. Doug McLure was standing at the bar and turned around to me and my two buddies and said, "nice night isn't it?" Wow, we were touring the country and he was the first movie star we encountered on our way to LA. My buddies and I got our drinks and went and sat down around an outdoor fireplace and Doug and his fiancee' (soon to be wife) Diane Furnberg followed us out and sat with us for the entire evening. He wondered why us guys, from Massachusetts, all had "Kennedy eyes." I was trying to get in the movie business and he gave me a handful of people to contact. Really nice people, both of them.

[@slypup1]

Great woman, I love her work over the years!

[@sonnyroy497]

Remember her, she was on an episode of Star Trek, I think it was Mirror Mirror. Anyway, she was the Captain's woman.

[@gregdavis19]

Good interview, Rob. I would have never guessed that you’re 74 now you look fantastic!

[@locqfortune5652]

The first time I ever saw Barbra was on One Life To Live Soap Opera, I don't remember her exact role but I do remember that she shook up the whole show and breathed new life into it. She was amazing, but was not on the show for very long as I would tune in just to see what she was up to... She looked so different and exotic from the rest she really stood out and stood up for herself very good writing. I also remember seeing her on star trek. To me she is much more of a star then any of the men she is talking about. She was the most talented.

[@erikandrus4387]

She played “Maria Roberts”. She started off as a very strong-willed lady, who had had a child when her character was a child, by Clint Ritchie’s character “Clint” in the story. Clint’s father Asa, played by matinee idol, Phil Carey, was not happy, that the daughter of their family cook, got pregnant by his son. (The Buchanans were the wealthy family of the story). So Asa paid pregnant Maria to leave Texas. The Maria character was mentioned as early as 1980, because this banishment created a big rift between Asa and Clint, who had just reconciled around that time over this. Then ultimately Clint’s illegitimate son Cord (John Loprieno) showed up. And then Maria followed, hoping that this would reunite her and Clint as well. But Clint was married to Viki Lord (Erika Slezak), the leading lady of the show. So it wasn’t very long that Maria schemed and plotted against the Buchanans and the Lords, only for it to catch up with her. But the audience loved every minute of BarBara Luna’s work. She’s one of the most memorable characters I think because of what she did during her time on the show, which I agree it was a year and a half (at most). ❤

[@arthurtripp6922]

THANK YOU FOR THIS SHOW A GREAT OPEN ENDED ENJOYMENT WITH A GREAT LADY.

[@rosemarie3784]

❤ Doug McClure at 9:36 May he R.I.P.

[@frankolsen9568]

I admire what you do Rob!

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Frank.

[@doctorartphd6463]

Very enjoyable and interesting presentation. Thank you. Merry Christmas !

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Doc. Happy holidays!

[@THE-HammerMan]

Rob! You're the best, dude, THE BEST! Thank you.

[@edvanderslice9726]

She's a beauty and has a very delightful personality. I remember her in so many westerns. Her episode in star trek had me hooked.

[@JeanieM7475]

What a delightful lady, I was watching Mirror, Mirror when I found this interview.........she was great in it, one of my fav Star Trek's

[@Ben-nh9xw]

Miss Luna drove me crazy as a young teen and still does to this day

[@Ladybug_62]

She is still one beautiful lady and so sweet 🥰🥰

[@briangoldy8784]

She was Gorge. ...............Very Pretty an Funny Lady.. Thanks Rob..

[@elderhiker7787]

Well that was fun. You can count me among the enduring Zorro fans. I never quite understood how putting on the mask made Don Diego unrecognizable to everybody. But, the series should have lasted. And Sgt. Garcia was amazingly funny. I never missed an episode.

[@joeburns4294]

That’s a great point about the mask. I wondered the same thing at the time. But I believe it was intentional by the creators so that handsome face was recognizable by us, the viewers, and the bad guys, shall we say, ‘not as smart as us.’ Brilliant! Loved Barbara Luna’s stories. Had no idea til now that she was married to DM. Watching him evolve as an actor was great too. I remember him in ‘57s The Enemy Below, when David Hedison was still ‘George.’

[@JRobbySh]

Williams was wasted in “Lost in Space”. Can’t undedrstsand why he didn’t have a bigger career.

[@williamsweeney2012]

Loved that show. I had a Zorro and horse model.

[@viktoriaironpride4977]

Well, I always wondered why nobody recognized Clark Kent as Superman with only a pair of horn-rimmed glasses as a disguise!

[@daskritterhaus5491]

never forget her in 'Ship of Fools'. WOW.

[@desertfox3860]

That was a fun interview, thanks for sharing!

[@HJKelley47]

BarBara was married to Doug only 2 yrs - from 1961-1963. Doug had 5 wives in total: Diane Furnberg (1979 - 1995) · Diane Soldani (1970 - 1979) · Helen Crane (1965 - 1968) · BarBara Luna (1961 - 1963) · Faye Brash (1957 - 1961). Dougie was busy and did not like being alone!

[@thomasmartinscott]

I worked in a 6 nights a week Theater Show with Dennis Weaver in Ouray, Colorado. He was great fun to work with. He had the actual hat from Gunsmoke and did a bit every night as Chester, who would teach the audience how to play the Git'tar. I never grew tired of it. I have pictures of him that I took from backstage doing that bit. I miss him.

[@stephenbastasch7893]

She was in Star Trek...and was a guest star on Roy Thinnes's "The Invaders", where she played an alien invader masquerading as a housekeeper for a priest played by Joseph Campanella. Always good in whatever role she had.

[@cherylnewland6538]

I Truly Adored Doug McClure when I was Young and Barbara was so Beautiful, but she Married my Doug! I Really enjoyed this interview, she's just full of interesting stories from all the Westerns that my husband and I still watch continuously today! Thanks So Much Barbara and I Love This Show!💖💖

[@leeprism9564]

Doug McClure was great in the Unforgiven with Bert Lancaster.

[@tombankwel4822]

Gourgeus Lady and a great interview, she is very enjoyable actrees, dough and her together wow, and she Was in My favorite show have gun will travel, thanks lord Rob Word of Word on Westerns laird of the Word manor from your friend tom now and always 🤩 🤩

[@AWordonWesterns]

Thanks, Tom. Luna is ageless and always a delight.

[@raymondortiz1113]

Barbara you still look beautiful, seen you on many shows, from star trek, to the many westerns on tv, during that time, your still very striking in looks.

[@mothershelper1981]

What a delight she is! A very lovely lady. I happened upon this by accident and thoroughly enjoyed listening to it.

[@williambilyeu9801]

I fell for Barbara Luna on the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of Star Trek and was disappointed when she didn't show again. I have that episode on DVD as well as her episodes on "Zorro." I have the complete series of "Wild, Wild West" and will have to try to find her on that. Another great interview, Rob!

[@scottjackson1420]

More often than not the Virginian was turned into "the Trampas Show." The producers understood how much audiences loved Doug.

[@junerobertson4389]

Actresses who were lucky enough to be in westerns had such a great life.........

[@sixtiesguy593]

Always loved her

[@saran3214]

She was very good looking and still is. She could play a lot of different nationalities.