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 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."
(a parody of the western series THE RIFLEMAN
starring Chuck Connors.)
Kyle
X. Applegate Films
