This is for those of you who are diehard TAGS fanatics. I recently obtained a copy of the pilot episode that appears to be fully intact, running over 23 minutes. It has an entire scene featuring Will Wright (a.k.a. Ben Weaver) that is completely omitted from the episode that aired on Nick-at-Nite in the 1980s.
Here's my question. The closing credits list Rance Howard as one of the actors in the episode. I've searched over and over and I cannot find Mr. Howard anywhere in the episode. Does anyone know what happened? Maybe he was in a scene that was later edited out, but my copy doesn't appear to have any edits. Perhaps he was originally in the episode and it was left on the cutting room floor before it first aired and they accidentally kept his name in the credits (I think this happened at least once in a later episode). I thought that maybe he was one of the cameramen seen in the courthouse interview scene, but neither of these guys look like Rance and they don't usually credit the folks who don't have speaking parts. This has got me stumped! What happened to Rance? This may be one of those big unanserable questions, kind of like "Who played Mr. Schwamp?" Can anyone out there please shed some light on this for me? John "Too Much Time on My Hands" Worsham Hendersonville, Tennessee _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
