Kyle X. Applegate Films - On the sci-fi sitcom OUT OF THIS WORLD/SYN/1987-91 Doug McClure appeared as Kyle X. Applegate, the mayor and later police chief working in Marlowe, a small coastal town in Northern California. Before his political career Kyle was an actor (a la Clint Eastwood) who starred in two television series COWBOY KYLE and THE FLORIDIAN; and a number of feature films including The Good, The Bad and the Unattractive, Gunfight at the Pretty Good Corral, a 1962 cannibalism film called Please Don't Eat the Daileys and Gidget Goes to Gettysburg. His COWBOY KYLE series featured Cowboy Kyle, the marshal of Laramie Heights (Doug McClure really appeared in a series called LARAMIE) who had a horse named Myron and a dentist sidekick, Sheldon Moskowitz. Because he a wore fancy ruffled shirt, Kyle earned the nickname "The Ruffleman."