Don't Leave Me Hanging!

Leap-frogging to the fourth series of photos from Limelights' Movie and TV Trivia!! Stripped and Hung Out to Dry, posted this past November, a deviant is shown hanging from a tree by his ankles.

The Young Riders, was an American western television series created by Ed Spielman. This popular TV show presented a fictionalized account of young Pony Express riders, based at the Sweetwater Station in Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War. The series came galloping into our lives on ABC September 20, 1989, and ran for three seasons until the final episode aired on July 23, 1992.

You may remember this excellent ABC / MGM Television drama was about six orphaned teenagers who became employees of the Pony Express. The boys faced danger in nearly every episode as they breathlessly carried U.S. Mail on horseback across the wild and dangerous central U.S.

In Season 1, Episode 18, Running Buck Cross played by foung Gregg Rainwater, fell "head over heals" for the gorgeous daughter of the new and, should I say, corrupt Sweetwater, Nebraska town banker. Buck became caught between his infatuation with the girl and her father and a cruel beau. Buck had his work cut out for him.

Upon learning of the father's penchant for hiring miscreants, Buck decides to teach a lesson to a couple of them. So, late one night, he kidnaps one of the men, a drunk, by lassoing him just after his having left a saloon, pulling him from his horse to the hard ground.

Then, taking him discreetly out of town, Buck ties him upside down from a tree branch with a strong rope, leaving him hanging... 

As the camera pans down from his boots, we learn that Buck has stripped this unfortunate of his clothes, 

leaving him in his union suit, twisting, twisting....

...and twisting above a pit of rattlesnakes:

as the rope knot loosens and loosens....

he struggles in his long underwear crying out for help!

This episode, like so many of the others, will keep your undivided attention. 

View it on Pluto, Dailymotion, Youtube or maybe even purchase the set.

Series Note:  It's hard to believe that one of the boys is actually a girl and that her secret is kept from all of the rest of them for some time. This despite them all sleeping together every night in their union suit underwear!  

Hmmm, what girl?