As most of us from back in the day knew Art Linkletter never made secret of the fact that he was a fundamentalist Christian. So it's no surprise that this outing on the Zane Grey Theater had him as an itinerant evangelical preacher doing his revival thing in the town where Peter Whitney has his saloon and business is drying up because of Linkletter's preaching.
Only in this town Linkletter's son catches up with him, played by his real life son Jack Linkletter who as a drifting cowboy was a great TV announcer. The gimmick of Linkletters father&son I guess was too much to resist for the Four Star Production people.
Whitney hears some family secrets from Jack that threaten to destroy Art and his work.
I have to say that it's casting that does the trick here. Peter Whitney who played a variety of plug uglies in his film career as the saloon keeper kind of tilts things against him. Imagine if someone like James Garner who played many a film flammer was the preacher. And you can't blame Whitney for resenting someone cutting into his business.
After all these were the folks that brought us Prohibition and we all know how that went.