Bonanza – The Tax Collector S2 E22

Bonanza – The Tax Collector S2 E22

At the behest of a local bureaucrat, good-for-nothing Jock Henry (Eddie Firestone) becomes Virginia City’s tax collector. Jock also becomes drunk with power, levying huge, unfair assessments against everybody in the vicinity. Thus it is when Jock is faced with a series of profound personal crises, no one in town will come to his aid. No one that is, except Hoss Cartwright. Kathie Browne, who later played Adam Cartwright’s fiancee Laura Dayton in several fifth-season Bonanza episodes, is here cast as Ellen, while Russ Conway plays Dave Hart. Written by Arnold Belgard, “Tax Collector” was originally broadcast on February 18, 1961.

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