# What is this scene from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418 "2008-12-16T17:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418/1 "2008-12-16T17:12:17Z")
Small town in the old west. Sick child has a bad fever. He (or she) starts to go into convulsions. Townspeople don’t know what to do. Indian grabs child, runs outside and dunks him (her) in the water trough, bringing down the fever and ending the convulsions. Townspeople think the crazy indian was trying to kill/hurt the child and get ready to beat him up/lynch him. Hero/doctor arrives and gives the indian the props he deserves for saving the kid’s life. I have a vague memory that it’s a Clint Eastwood movie. But it could just as easily be an episode of _The Rifleman_ or _Bonanza_. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418/2 "2008-12-16T17:22:53Z")
Sounds like somehting you might see on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” although I don’t specifically remember it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418/3 "2008-12-16T17:25:38Z")
> [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](#): > > Sounds like somehting you might see on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” although I don’t specifically remember it. I should add that I saw it a long time ago. Certainly not in the last 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418/4 "2008-12-16T17:42:35Z")
“Little House on the Prairie,” maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418/5 "2008-12-16T18:43:22Z")
It was **Gunsmoke**. Festus tried to bring the old Indian back to his tribe, only to discover that the old man had been given the prairie equivalent of being abandoned on an ice floe, and we all learned a hard lesson in multiculturalism. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418/6 "2008-12-16T19:31:13Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > It was **Gunsmoke**. Festus tried to bring the old Indian back to his tribe, only to discover that the old man had been given the prairie equivalent of being abandoned on an ice floe, and we all learned a hard lesson in multiculturalism. A very special episode. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-scene-from/477418/7 "2008-12-16T20:23:08Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > It was **Gunsmoke**. Festus tried to bring the old Indian back to his tribe, only to discover that the old man had been given the prairie equivalent of being abandoned on an ice floe, and we all learned a hard lesson in multiculturalism. Ooooh, that’s probably it. Any idea of the episode name?