The Great Diamond Mines
A prospector and his partner try to con a banker.
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"A very weak episode badly directed by Denver Pyle. It stars Gavin McCloud (McHale's Navy, Love Boat) and John Fieldler (The Bob Newhart Show, the voice of Piglet) as a couple of miners who claim to have discovered a huge diamond mine in the desert. Of course the local bankers try to cheat them of their find. But who's fooling who? Admittedly Pyle was given a pretty bad script to work with because this story does not work on several levels. At one point it looks as if its going to be one of those "big cons" pulled off frequently on "Maverick" or "The Rockford ..."
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This is the second of two episodes depicting this event. The other one is A Killing in Diamonds (1955). Maverick episode Diamond in the Rough (26 January 1958) also used this incident for its story line.
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A prospector and his partner try to con a banker.