Cimarron Strip/Knife in the Darkness

Knife in the Darkness
Season 1, Episode 18
Airdate	January 25, 1968
Production Number	0704
Written by	Harlan Ellison
Directed by	Charles R. Rondeau
← 1x17 Heller	1x19 → Sound of a Drum
Cimarron Strip — Season One

Guest Starring: Jennifer Billingsley (Josie), David Canary (Tal St. James), Philip Carey (Kallman), Jeanne Cooper (Pony Jane), Patrick Horgan (Tipton), George Murdock (Bladgey), Victoria Shaw (Maddie Lennert), Tom Skerritt (Enoch Shelton), Ron Soble (Shadow Feller), Karl Swenson (The doctor)

Co-Starring: Don Harper (Peddigrew), Grace Lee Whitney (Katie), Joey Tata (Gomer), William Phipps (Odell), Richard Angarola (1st Indian), Cal Bolder (Trapper)

Plot Overview

In 1888, a foggy December night following a dance a saloongirl, Josie, is butchered and Marshal Crown hunts for a killer which has similarities as Francis points out to killings in London earlier that year by Jack the Ripper.

Fear and the many suspects make the task all the more difficult with the local citizens taking the law into their own hands...and the Indians seem to be waiting???

Arc Advancement

Happenings

Francis informs Crown of ripper killings, two in New York, one in Philidelphia, one in Washington DC, Two in Chicago, and one in Kansas City indicating the ripper is moving west.

Crown receives a letter from "Jack"

Characters

Maddie Lennert is an old freind of Crowns from Abilene he had last seen five years ago'

Tipton claims to work for George Lusk of The London Vigilance Commitee.

Shelton claims to be a reformer.

Kallman is a professional gambler handy with a knife.

Peddigrew is a knife sharpener.

The Doctor says the butchery was done by someone skilled with a knife.

Shadow Feller claims Josie was his woman.

Trivia

Allusions and References

Jack the Ripper operated in London and the five main murders attributed to him, (This story claims seven), occured between August 31 and November 9, 1888.

George Lusk was Head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Commitee and did receive a letter, with a kidney enclosed, from "Jack".