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''Alias Smith and Jones'' is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from January 1971 to January 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, outlaw cousins who are trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, aiming to keep the pact a secret. The "condition" is that they will still be wanted until it becomes politically advantageous for the governor to sign their clemency. ==Origin== ''Alias Smith and Jones'' began with a made-for-TV movie of the previous year called ''The Young Country'', about con artists in the Old West. It was produced, written and directed by Roy Huggins, who served as executive producer of ''AS&J'' and, under the pseudonym of John Thomas James, at least shared the writing credit on most episodes. Roger Davis starred as Stephen Foster Moody, and Pete Duel had the secondary but significant role of Honest John Smith. Joan Hackett played a character called Clementine Hale; a character with the same name appeared in two ''AS&J'' episodes, played by Sally Field.〔Yoggy, Gary A., ''Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television'', McFarland & Co., 1995, pp.477-478.〕〔.〕 This pilot was rejected, but Huggins was given a second chance and, with Glen A. Larson, developed ''Alias Smith and Jones''. Both ''The Young Country'' and the series pilot movie originally aired as ''ABC Movies of the Week''. ''Alias Smith and Jones'' was made in the same spirit as many other American TV series, from Huggins' own ''The Fugitive'' to ''Renegade'', about fugitives on the run across America who get involved in the personal lives of the people they meet. The major difference was that Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry were guilty of the crimes that they were accused of committing, but were trying to begin a non-criminal life. The series was modeled on the 1969 film ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'', starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford (Universal contract player Ben Murphy was offered to the producers because he was considered a Paul Newman lookalike.)〔Glen A. Larson, audio commentary on ''Alias Smith and Jones'', Season One, Disc One, the pilot, Universal DVD, 2007.〕 There were a number of similarities between the film and the TV series: One of the lead characters in the film was called Harvey Logan (played by Ted Cassidy). In real life Harvey Logan was also known by the nickname of "Kid Curry", Harvey Logan was an associate of the real Butch Cassidy and unlike the TV version, the real Kid Curry was a cold-blooded killer. The TV series also featured a group of robbers called the Devil's Hole Gang, loosely based on the Hole in the Wall Gang from which Cassidy recruited most of his outlaws. In order to lend them an element of audience sympathy, Heyes and Curry were presented as men who avoided bloodshed (though Curry did once kill in self-defense) and were always attempting to reform and seek redemption for their "prior ways". The names "Smith" and "Jones" originated from a comment in the 1969 film ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' when, prior to one of their final hold-ups, the characters are outside a bank in Bolivia and Sundance turns to Butch and says: "I'm Smith and you're Jones." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alias Smith and Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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