I didn't remember this, but Ken Berry had a stunt in it. He climbs a crude wooden ladder up a water tower. He's a couple of stories up. The ladder is too straight, isn't at an angle which makes it look dangerous. And there are TWO ladders. One goes halfway up, then there's a platform with the water tank on it and there's another one going to the top of the tank. The slightest slip and he could have been horribly injured. But he climbed down effortlessly, staying in character the whole time.
Ken Berry was a tougher customer than I imagined.
Reminds me of two other things. All this is stuff I've written about before.
There was the episode of that practical joke show where Dick Van Patten calmly lies to a man pretending to be a goon working for a bookie threatening his friend.
And there was Scotty Beckett, former child actor who, as an adult, was reduced to playing a character named "Winky" on Rocky Jones: Space Ranger. Beckett was an alcoholic with a gambling problem and was found passed out with a gun in a hotel that had just been robbed. He didn't have the loot on him so they didn't charge him with robbery, but they got him for carrying a gun. He fled to Mexico City. When Mexican police came to his hotel to question him about the bad checks he'd been passing, he got into a gunfight with them.
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