Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)

The Brush Roper (1955)

Lee Aaker: Cowhide Atkins

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Cowhide : And that's how I come Sub Doyal so mad, and Grandma got her garden back and plowed out. I guess we showed the champion roper of Texas a thing or two about catchin' outlaw cattle - me, and Duke, and Grandpa!

• Grandma : What's your grandpa doin' up a tree?

  Cowhide : Nothin' much - just sittin' there on his horse.

  Grandma : On his horse? Up a tree? Now, Cowhide Atkins, you just settle down and tell me what has happened to your grandpa.

  Cowhide : That's what I been tryin' to tell you! Grandpa's stuck in a tree, and we can't get him down 'til we bring the choppin' axe.

  Grandma : Ohhhh, land of Moses.

• [first lines] 

  Cowhide : My grandpa, Bate Atkins, is like a teased snake this morning - mad enough to bite himself. It's because Grandma nagged him clear on into a corn patch to plow out the weeds.

• Cowhide : Grandpa's an old-time cowhand, but it sure rankles him to work at anything he can't do from the saddle of a horse.