The main plot of the pilot episode PALMS OF GLORY isn't what it should have been since Lee Majors' Heath being the illegitimate son of the unseen, long dead patriarch of a wealthy ranching family plays secondary through rushed dialogue...
Yet it needed more input and time to grow, especially since someone claiming to be part of powerful family would be viewed as a con-man... and it would take longer than seven minutes in a closed room to solve...
The real plot is about a rich and formidable (and cliche) land baron so that our central wealthy family can look good and honest by comparison...
\Especially since the series was co-written by a pulp author who used class-envy as his biggest plot-device (rich are bad, poor are good), basically killing that aspect here along with Heath's extremely simple foot in the door... that should have been a much tougher climb.
Yet it needed more input and time to grow, especially since someone claiming to be part of powerful family would be viewed as a con-man... and it would take longer than seven minutes in a closed room to solve...
The real plot is about a rich and formidable (and cliche) land baron so that our central wealthy family can look good and honest by comparison...
\Especially since the series was co-written by a pulp author who used class-envy as his biggest plot-device (rich are bad, poor are good), basically killing that aspect here along with Heath's extremely simple foot in the door... that should have been a much tougher climb.