Based on Around the World in 80 days its' fun to see how the writers weave Paladin into the Jules Verne classic's path through the Sierra Nevada. IMBD gives the Filming Location as Paramount Melrose Ave but there are a lot of outdoor scenes including the river that runs backwards that must have been done outside Los Angeles, maybe even Central Oregon?
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Rule Britannia!
cougarannie10 January 2016
Another great two-for-one sees Richard Boone squaring off against veteran film and television actor Patric Knowles. The huge success of the 1958 film "Around the world in 80 days " was the obvious inspiration for this episode.
Wealthy British aristocrat and adventurer Phineas Fogg (played by Knowles) is determined to circle the globe in the aforementioned 80 days, using the fastest means of local transport available. A ship has brought Fogg to San Francisco and the Carlton, from which he must travel to Reno in order to rendezvous with a train that will eventually see him depart New York and collect on a wager he made with members of a London CLub. Travelling with Fogg are his hapless manservant Passepartout (literally "Pass-Key" in French) and the Punjabi Princess Aouda, whom Fogg saved from Ritual Immolation.
Paladin offers his services as bodyguard to the completely unimpressed Fogg, who clearly has no idea of the dangers that the "The West" still poses, or of how affairs are conducted in America. Passepartout confides to Paladin that his pompous Master is a wee bit mad, and the high-spirited Princess shows Paladin a thing or two about horsemanship. As if all that weren't enough, Phineas has made a mortal enemy of a self-important American 'Gentleman Officer' determined to engage Mr. Fogg in a duel. The exasperated Paladin repeatedly loses his temper, is forced to resort to his gun, risks death in an icy river, and is finally glad to see the last of Fogg and his party,- with the exception, perhaps, of the beautiful Aouda!
Wealthy British aristocrat and adventurer Phineas Fogg (played by Knowles) is determined to circle the globe in the aforementioned 80 days, using the fastest means of local transport available. A ship has brought Fogg to San Francisco and the Carlton, from which he must travel to Reno in order to rendezvous with a train that will eventually see him depart New York and collect on a wager he made with members of a London CLub. Travelling with Fogg are his hapless manservant Passepartout (literally "Pass-Key" in French) and the Punjabi Princess Aouda, whom Fogg saved from Ritual Immolation.
Paladin offers his services as bodyguard to the completely unimpressed Fogg, who clearly has no idea of the dangers that the "The West" still poses, or of how affairs are conducted in America. Passepartout confides to Paladin that his pompous Master is a wee bit mad, and the high-spirited Princess shows Paladin a thing or two about horsemanship. As if all that weren't enough, Phineas has made a mortal enemy of a self-important American 'Gentleman Officer' determined to engage Mr. Fogg in a duel. The exasperated Paladin repeatedly loses his temper, is forced to resort to his gun, risks death in an icy river, and is finally glad to see the last of Fogg and his party,- with the exception, perhaps, of the beautiful Aouda!
Paladin as travel expediter?
ebertip27 September 2018
Fogg missed his train and hires Paladin to get to Reno to catch up with it. Lots of British/American verbal dueling and allusions to cricket. The party reaches the Truckee River (from the west) and Fogg is on his way. Curiously, the river flow is shown to be from left to right (southerly if viewed from the west bank) but the Truckee flows north from Tahoe to Reno.
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