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  1. John Dunning _ On the Air: The Encyclopedia

    Dennis Weaver would be given a wooden leg and a greater drawl as Chester. Two things amused Parley Baer in later life: that the new people would find it necessary to change Chester's surname {from the Baer-coined Proud-foot to Goode} and that Dennis Weaver eventually came to hate the role. Isn't it interesting, Baer was asked in 1984, that what was the highlight of his professional life became for Weaver a limiting, confining trap, like the picture tube itself? "That is interesting," Baer said, as if such a thought had never occurred to him.
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