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The Swamp Fox
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The Swamp Fox was a short-lived American series that aired as part of the Walt Disney Presents block (the 'Frontierland' segment). It starred Leslie Nielsen as The American Revolution figure Francis Marion, leader of a guerrilla band based in the South Carolina swamps. (It wasn't a comedy series; this was in the early part of Nielsen's career, when he was a straight dramatic actor—think Forbidden Planet rather than The Naked Gun.) A few other notable faces showed up in various episodes, including Slim Pickens as Marion's man Plunkett, and Tim Considine, of Disney and My Three Sons fame as Marion's nephew 'Young' Gabe Marion. Despite it being rather obscure, it did show up in several Disney comic anthologies and got a Disney coloring book at one time.It only lasted eight episodes, but since it was rotated with other series in the program, it appeared to go on longer than if it had been a weekly program. It was, when looking at portrayals of the war, one of the few (along with The Patriot (2000)) to actually portray the war in the southern colonies. | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: Gabe is whipped to try and force him to tell where Marion's base is. It doesn't work. | |
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Heal It with Booze | |
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Heal It with Booze: Young Gabe is given whiskey to dull the pain of his wound; not uncommon in those days. | |
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Conflicting Loyalty | |
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Conflicting Loyalty: All over the place. Briggs and his brother, Mary's family—until a secret is revealed in a later ep. | |
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Historical Villain Downgrade | |
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Historical Villain Downgrade: Tarleton, who in real life gained the nickname 'The Butcher' for his treatment of rebels trying to surrender. | |
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Dressing as the Enemy | |
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Dressing as the Enemy: Marion dresses as a Redcoat to rescue an arrested Mary. It doesn't work. | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Sibling Rivalry / Sibling Yin-Yang: The Briggs brothers. One's a Tory, the other's a Patriot. The Tory had no regrets whatsoever burning down his brother's house. | |
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Automaton Horses | |
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Automaton Horses: Averted. Marion and Oscar realize they need a diversion in one episode because the Redcoats are still chasing them and the horses can't go much further. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The Americans consider themselves this to the British rule. | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word: The 'S' word—'Slave'—in this case. Only words like 'servant' and 'boy' are used. | |
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You Monster! | |
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You Monster!: One of the Tory women at Mary's home says this when Marion has his band break in and act like the Tories expect Americans to act—like a bunch of wild guys—so he can use the distraction to warn Mary that Tarleton is coming. | |
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From Dress to Dressing | |
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From Dress to Dressing: Mary cuts up her party dress to use as bandages for the guys on the prison ship. | |
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Powder Trail | |
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Powder Trail: 'A Day of Reckoning' has one when Briggs is caught in the tavern. | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: The prison ship, very much Truth in Television. The captain of the ship Mary left warned her of how bad conditions were there, and some prisoners did die before she could help them escape. | |
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Boot Camp Episode | |
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Boot Camp Episode: In the episode Horses for Greene, Marion allows his men to be trained to be more military. As his men are not regular soldiers but militia, they do not care for this. | |
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Disneyfication | |
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Disneyfication: Quite a bit. There was a degree of accuracy, but quite a few areas were softened as well. The African-American characters, for example, are never referred to as slaves, and most of the darker sides of the main characters are left out. | |
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Backup Bluff | |
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Backup Bluff: Marion outsmarted a squad of Redcoats this way, with Oscar using the pack horses on a wooden bridge to sound like backup. The effect was intensified by the Americans changing where they fired from after each shot. | |
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Rebel Leader | |
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Rebel Leader: Marion, even though he wasn't the top leader obviously. | |
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Bar Brawl | |
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Bar Brawl: In the final episode, the guys sneak off to drink and the Tory tavern owner alerts the Redcoats. One of these breaks out when the soldiers arrive. | |
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Black-and-White Morality | |
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Black-and-White Morality: Especially since it's an American series—reality was a lot more White-and-Grey Morality. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Marion tries to break into a masquerade party to free Mary, and is caught himself. His band later has to free him. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Marion goes on one of these after Young Gabe is kidnapped. | |
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Masquerade Ball | |
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Masquerade Ball: Mary is made by Tarleton to attend one after she's caught as a spy, and it turns out to be a plot to catch Marion. | |
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Civil War | |
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Civil War: The 'brother against brother, parent against child' stuff is well portrayed. And subverted in one case. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Marion's brigade. Pretty much true in real life, as it was of many Americans. | |
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Artistic License – Medicine | |
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Artistic License – Medicine: In one episode, Mary goes to get quinine, which wasn't invented until the 1800s. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Briggs, the Tory one. Gwynne kills him after becoming certain he (and not Marion) is the actual killer of his father. | |
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Twisted Ankle | |
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Twisted Ankle: Marion, in the pilot. Truth in Television, apparently. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: When Young Gabe is captured, then killed. | |
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Disturbed Doves | |
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Disturbed Doves: Marion's signal to the brigade was to shoot a rifle to make the birds on the island fly up. | |
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Rank Up | |
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Rank Up: Marion becomes a Brigadier General and Horry a Colonel. | |
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Color-Coded Armies | |
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Color-Coded Armies: Although Tarleton's group wore green, the Redcoat variety is still very present. Marion's group doesn't have uniforms—in real life, some did, but most wore whatever they could find. | |
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You Rebel Scum! | |
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You Rebel Scum!: many loyalists viewed those that fight for the colonists as lesser beings, althro they usually got their comeuppance soon afterward. | |
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I Lied | |
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I Lied: Tarleton never intended to let Mary off, he just wanted to catch Marion using her. | |
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You Said You Would Let Them Go | |
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You Said You Would Let Them Go: Tarleton says he'll let Mary go if she attends the ball, pretending that he thinks she's just a rebellious child, but he really uses the ball as a way to capture Marion briefly. | |
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Colonel Badass | |
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Colonel Badass: Marion at times, until his Rank Up to Brigadier General. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The attempt to rescue Young Gabe doesn't work, and Marion stops at nothing to find his killer. No one is shown to die onscreen, but there's quite a bit of beating up and intimidating. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Plunkett, Horry, and one or two others give this to Marion when it's obvious that he's so consumed with finding Young Gabe's killer that he forgets he's fighting a war as well. | |
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Island Base | |
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Island Base: Marion's base at Snow Island in the South Carolina swamps. | |
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Worthless Currency | |
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Worthless Currency: An episode where Marion's men pay a tavern owner with Continental money, which is worthless at the time. He's a Tory and not happy. They tell him the new government will make good on it after the war. Truth in Television, as continental money really was worthless since the fledgling Americans had nothing to back it with until after the war. | |
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Food Slap | |
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Food Slap: One of the guys starts a bar brawl and thwarts an arrest attempt by throwing booze in a Redcoat's face. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: Gwynne, to Marion—it was actually Briggs, the man who also killed Young Gabe, who had pretended to be Marion to try and turn people against him. | |
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