- Excerpt from TELEVISIONARY
Rona Barrett's Hollywood, March 1973
Ben Murphy wasn't
exactly bowled over by the cancellation of Alias Smith and
Jones. According to Ben, doing a series is "...a
killing 12-hour work day, five days a week. And I believe it
helped to kill Pete Duel. He worried too much to cope
with the punishing routine. And he drank too much through all
that worry. Then he died so tragically. He was too young for
that." But Ben's future looks bright--we hear Universal
is already pitching a lush movie offer his way...
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