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Objection to Deletion

The episode is the most intensely discussed and well-known of this series, dwarfing the others in terms of how often it's mentioned, both in interviews and in conversation by people who saw the series over the years. See the Roy Huggins and James Garner Archive of American Television interviews for two superb examples: both Huggins and Garner discuss this episode at extreme length, with more time spent on this one than all the other individual episodes put together, literally, and as mentioned in the article, Garner has talked about this episode in every in-depth interview in which the series comes up at any length, always mentioning it first; a typical example is found in his Charlie Rose interview, also cited in the External links section of the article. Equally as important as anything else, however, and reason enough for it to merit its own page, is the fact that the plot of the first half of the movie The Sting was purloined from this episode, a matter also discussed at length by Huggins in his Archives interview and elsewhere. (If you don't believe this, watch them back to back. Max Baer, Jr. asked Huggins immediately after the movie was previewed whether he planned to sue the movie's producers.) Skymasterson (talk) 01:58, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The interviews are unavailable as the links are apparently broken. These assertions of notability and other factual information require reliable sources, of which there appear to be a paucity. If the article is retained it needs to be re-written in an encyclopedic tone and format. Otto4711 (talk) 02:07, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are ample sources cited in the External links section, the links to the Huggins and Garner interviews have been fixed, and the article's level of writing seems impeccable to me, I can't see a thing wrong with it; it adheres to Wikipedia's format and if by "encyclopedic...tone," you simply mean dull, perhaps the subject matter itself was too entertaining to accommodate you. Skymasterson (talk) 19:38, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
As an aside, I just ran across a reference from ex-FCC head Nicholas Johnson discussing the episode's coining of the phrase "If you can't trust your banker, who can you trust?" featuring an embedded clip from the show followed by a quotation of this Wikipedia article in its entirety with full credit. Here's a link to this, just scroll down:

Nicholas Johnson - From DC2Iowa
Skymasterson (talk) 15:32, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]