1963, DEATH VALLEY DAYS, "A HOLY TERROR" S12:E7, introduced by Ronald Reagan

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S12:E7 | Oct 22, 1963, Penny Singleton plays the character of Maggie Franklin who is such a strong willed Irish redhead that she earns the nickname of "Holy Terror" by her husband. Daughter Cora marries the love of her life after her mother, Maggie, expressly forbid it. This leads to Maggie striking her daughters name from the family bible this disowning her daughter Cora. Cora's father and Maggie's husband Bill loves his daughter very much and secretly has to meet her so Maggie will not find out after she made a promise to strike his name as well from the family bible. On one of Cora and her fathers secret meetings Bill discovers gold. Bill, afraid to say a word in the little town about the find and realizing he has to file on the claim ASAP he leaves without telling Maggie. He has told his daughter that he would name the claim after his wife and make the claim deed out 50, 50, in her name and his. Maggie comes looking for Bill and Cora confesses the details about the meeting with her father and everything about the gold including his intentions to name the mine and share with Maggie. The mortgage owner of Bill and Maggie's home finds out about the gold find and presses Maggie into signing over her half of the mine by demanding the money owed that night or he would foreclose. He and Maggie agree that she would sign over her half of the claim if their debt on the house was wiped clean. As part of the contract that the mortgage owner is concocting he needs to have the name of the claim. He and Maggie believing the name would include the name Maggie use several variations in the contract to be safe. Both of them were completely unaware that Bill would use Maggie's nickname.
Ronald Reagan ... introduction
Dick Foran ... Bill Franklin
Penny Singleton ... Maggie Franklin
Stanley Adams ... Henry Pardee
Tom Simcox ... Billy
Norman Leavitt ... Leif Weaver
Stanley Andrews ... Old Ranger
Sharon Farrell ... Cora Franklin

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