While struggling as an actor, Clu Gulager met Fuller on the fourth episode of "Laramie," in which Gulager played the role of a private who showed up at the Sherman Ranch Relay Station beaten and half-starved looking for help from Jess Harper, who was his brother-in-law. The friendship took off from there and a lifelong connection began. Gulager was also reunited with Fuller on 2 more episodes of "Wagon Train" and 1 episode of "The Virginian," where Gulager was credited as a star, but like Drury, Gulager did not appear in the episode.