Best of the West was a sitcom airing on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982. This Western spoof featured the misadventures of Sam Best, a Civil War veteran (played by Joel Higgins) who becomes a marshal in Copper Creek after accidentally scaring off an incompetent gunfighter called the Calico Kid. Sam's family was made up of his Southern belle wife, Elvira (played by Carlene Watkins) and his smart-mouthed son, Daniel (Meeno Peluce). The cast also included Leonard Frey as the villain Parker Tillman, Tom Ewell as the drunken town doctor Jerome Kullens, and Tracey Walter as Tillman's clueless, but kind-hearted henchman, Frog Rothchild Jr. The brave marshal, the evil saloon keeper who "owns" the town, the drunken old sawbones--Best of the West was a rollicking spoof of the cliches of TV Westerns. "Best" was Sam Best, a Civil War veteran from Philadelphia who journeyed west in 1865. With him were his ten-year-old son Daniel and his new wife Elvira, a Southern belle whom he had met while burning her father's plantation to the ground. Fluttery Elvira and smart-mouthed Daniel were not exactly at home on the rough-and-tumble frontier. Elvira did her best to tidy up their new cabin, though. Dabbing daintily at the floor with a broom she sighed, "I just can't seem to get the dirt off this floor"--to which Sam deadpanned, "It's a dirt floor." And from city kid Daniel came: "I want you to understand, Dad, I'm never going outside. But Sam's problems weren't confined to home. First there was the Calico Kid, an incompetent gunfighter who terrorized the town until Sam accidentally drove him off, thereby earning himself the job of town marshal. A more continuing source of aggravation was Parker Tillman, the villainous proprietor of the Square Deal Saloon (and of most of the rest of Copper Creek). Though his fastidious, prissy demeanor seemed totally out of place in the West, Tillman had his manicured fingers in every racket imaginable. When his construction company put up the new jail, the building promptly collapsed; when the townspeople had to fight a flood, he rented them shovels. Also in the cast was Tillman's dim-witted henchman Frog, bawdy mountain woman Laney Gibbs, and--of course--drunk old Doc Kullens. Starring Joel Higgins as Marshal Sam Best Carlene Watkins as Elvira Best Meeno Peluce as Daniel Best Leonard Frey as Parker Tillman Tom Ewell as Doc Jerome Kullens Valeri Bromfield as Laney Gibbs Tracey Walter as Frog Macon McCalman as Mayor Fletcher In its short run, the show managed to feature an impressive array of guest stars.

The list of noted actors and actresses who appeared include: * Dixie Carter in Episode #19 - "The Pretty Prisoner" * Andy Griffith in Episode #4 - "The Reunion" * Al Lewis in Episodes #5 and #6 - "They're Hanging Parker Tillman, Parts 1 and 2" * Christopher Lloyd in Episode #3 - "The Calico Kid Returns" and Episode #14 - "The Calico Kid Goes to School" * Richard Moll in Episode #2 - "The Prisoner" * Slim Pickens in Episode #2 - "The Prisoner" * John Randolph in Episode #10 - "The Railroad" * Betty White in Episode #16 - "Mail Order Bride"

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