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Sajid Khan had a brief period as a teen idol in this hemisphere after teaming with Jay North in the big screen film Maya and the brief television series adapted from that film. This Big Valley story was an attempt to capitalize on that featuring him as a Hindu prince who has a western 'guardian' in Harold Gould.

In point of fact Sajid is no kind of royalty, in fact he was a beggar kid when Gould found him and started using him in all kinds of con games. Now he's about to be betrothed to a rich American girl who Gould is trying to fleece.

Gould who definitely could play grifters as he did as one of the many in The Sting shows a nasty side to him not often seen in his more memorable roles. He's really worth watching for the offbeat casting.

And you can see Sajid Khan graced those Tiger Beat covers back in the day.

In a rather bizarre story, we learn that Jarrod has been made the ward of a sixteen year old girl named Laura Hayden (Kathy Graver of 'Family Affair' fame). Seems Ms Laura was the child of wealthy parents but both had died and Jarrod is in charge of her money until she reached a certain age. As you would guess Laura is a head strong girl that believes she is grown-up enough to make her own decisions in life. And she bumps heads with Jarrod, much like she did with her father, about going back to school and how to spend her money.

About this time a seventeen year old Prince of India, Ranjit Singh, happens to be coming to Stockton in hopes of raising money for his people back in India. And as you may have already guessed, Ms Laura begins falling in love with the young Prince and also wants to give the Prince a large sum of money from her estate.

Unknown to most, the Prince is really a common boy that happened to come to America on a ship owned by Captain Crawford. Crawford is now pretending to be the overseer of the Prince's affairs and the intention is to get the donated money and keep it for himself.

When Crawford is recognized by a local, the scheme is put into high gear. The Prince proposes marriage to the young Ms Laura and they are to set out for San Fran the next day. Things go bad when Crawford wants the Prince to leave the girl in the wilderness. The fake Prince will try to defend the honor of Ms Laura or at least die trying.

NOTE-Without giving a 'spoiler alert' I will try to be vague in the last paragraph-- but you have to see the end of the show. The Prince, or should we say Ranjit, comes into the Barkley house alongside Heath. I have never seen such great care with costume design as I did with neckerchiefs. All I can say is that they wanted you to notice the neckerchiefs and boy-oh-boy they accomplished the task.

A pretty weak episode that apparently was a tryout for two young actors, Sajid Kahn and Kathy Garver (from Family Affair) to see if they could handle a show of their own. They couldn't, at least not with a script this bad. Khan plays the assistant of a conman Garver falls in love with, because she is flighty and empty headed and out on furlough from a boarding school her guardian, Jarrod, has sent her to. Substitute Father Jarrod is left to deal with the mess.

The only things good about this episode are the mud fight at the end and Jarrod's wicked laugh in the epilogue.

Mediocre episode at best. But it was cool to see "Hey Boy" as Laura's house servant.