Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Katy Piper Story (1965)

Frances Reid: Dr. Katy Piper

Quotes 

• Dr. Katy Piper : He shot the boy as an automatic reflex to the presence of danger. I don't see what he or any other gallant young man could do in the circumstances.

  Judge : Well, thank you, Miss, er, or do I call you Doctor Piper?

  Dr. Katy Piper : I'm both. I answer to either form of address.

• Barnaby West : Where're all your girls?

  Dr. Katy Piper : Out stalking a husband for me. So they don't end up with an eighty-year old spinster mother.

  Barnaby West : How'd you collect all of them anyway?

  Dr. Katy Piper : Oh, you and the judge. And they women are snoopy.

• Rosie : Mom, do you like Bill Hawks?

  Dr. Katy Piper : Now, let's see. He's a very nice man. We had a lovely long talk yesterday about that girl he's engaged to out in Ohio.

  Rosie : Do you like Coop Smith?

  Dr. Katy Piper : Mm. Very handsome, but he's a few years younger than I am, I think.

• Dr. Katy Piper : Lily's people were Navahoes who were murdered by the Utes. So I bought her from their medicine man, you know, one doctor dealing with another, so to speak. For 5 gallons of pure grain alcohol. I gave them fire water. But I saved a little girl's life. You going to tell the authorities?

• Dr. Katy Piper : My heart bleeds with your hand.

• Barnaby West : Well, what could I help him with?

  Dr. Katy Piper : Blood. A transfusion.

  Barnaby West : Why don't you give him mine. I seem to have too much of it.