Disney Shew
Will Feature
Steer Story
“Sancho, the Homing Steci',”
a nature novelette based on the
actual story of a Texas longhorn
who left a cattle drive to find
his way home again, traveling
1200 miles in a year, will be
presented in two parts on the
Walt Disney Show, starting this
Sunday at 7 on KFAR-TV.
Channel 2.
The show features Bill Shurley
and Rosita Fernandez as Ed and
Maria Kerr, and Arthur Custis as
Shiner. Narrator is Rex Allen.
Part One
In Part I, subtitled "Sancho on
the Rancho . . . and Elsewhere,”
Ed Kerr (Shurley) finds an aban
doned longhorn calf and takes it
home to his pretty Mexican wife,
Maria (Miss Fernandez). Ed and
Maria just manage a bare living on
a small Texas ranch.
Sancho becomes Maria's pot but
the larger he gets, the more trou
ble he gets into. He is constantly at
odds with the farmyard animals,
pilfers Maria's tortillas, wanders
into the house and breaks up the
furniture, and gets into Maria's
cornfield where he destroys half
the crop.
Maria now agrees reluctantly to
sell Sancho to Shiner (Custic. for
a cattle drive from Texas to Mon
tana. Sancho is more trouble than
he is worth, getting into the food
and starting a stampede. When some
renegade Indians step the trail drive
and demand rcc: Shiner gives them
Sancho. wh sc n escapes from the
Indians and starts his long trip
home.
Part Two
In Part II. subtitled “The Perils
of a Homesick Steer" Sancho en
counters numerous bostacles as he
begins his 1200-mile homeward jour
ney.
Sancho befriends a coyote who
saves his life from a hunter. San
cho enters a ghost town where he
is attacked by a wolf pack whom
he outsmarts. He encounters the
hardships of winter and finds mo
mentary shelter in a small settle
ment around Christmas time, where
he is befriended by a group of chil
dren. who set him free when the
adults decide to slaughter him. Back
on the prairie. Sancho tangles with
a herd of buffalo.
As spring gives way to summer,
Sancho draws nearer to home when
he is attacked by two cougars, who
find Sancho too tough to handle. In
stead the big cats turn on a sleep
ing man and his horse.
The man is Ed Kerr, returning
from the cattle drive. Sancho saves
life but Kerr mistakes him for a
wild longhorn and shoots him. For
tunately Sancho is not wounded
seriously, and Kerr returns with
him to Maria and the ranch.
Haunting Story Of
Wrong Conviction
Spurs Defenders
“The Search," a haunting drama
by Reginald Rose about a man who i
confesses to a murder for which
another man has already been exe
cuted, will be presented on “The j
Defenders,” starring E. G. Marshall
and Robert Reed, Saturday at 8 on
KTVF, Channel Eleven.
James Mitchell tJames Congdon), I
unable to live with his terrible
secret after six years, surrenders to
the police and admits to the rob
bery-murder of a business execu
tive for which Ernest Pomeroy
(Harry Millard) has been convicted !
and put to death.
Attorney Lawrence Preston (E.
G. Marshall), who had defended
Pomeroy, is deeply disturbed by the j
revelation, and is determined to
probe the past for the truth.
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