Alias Smith and Jones [SEP] creator
Smith. Joan Hackett played a character called Clementine Hale, a character with the same name appeared in two "Alias Smith and Jones" episodes, played by Sally Field. This pilot was rejected, but Huggins was given a second chance and, with Glen A. Larson, developed "Alias Smith and Jones". As with the previously-rejected pilot "The Young Country", this series pilot proper also aired as an "ABC Movie of the Week".
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One of Carter's more unusual roles was in 1970 as L. Frank Baum, the creator of "The Wizard of Oz", on the episode "The Wizard of Aberdeen" on the syndicated series "Death Valley Days". Other appearances were on ABC's "Alias Smith and Jones", NBC's "The Wide Country" with Earl Holliman and "Dr. Kildare" with Richard Chamberlain, and CBS's "The Dukes of Hazzard".