![]() I am willing to give leeway to the costumes worn by Stephanie Zembalist, Barbara Carrera and Christina Raines considering their characters’ social positions. One, I was not that impressed by Helen Colvig’s costumes for the female characters. I do have a few quibbles about the episode. "The Wagon and the Elephant" is without a doubt, my favorite of all the twelve episodes featured in "CENTENNIAL". Louis, they meet three other men who will play major roles in their future – Oliver Seccombe, an Englishman with plans to write a book about the American West Army Major Maxwell Mercy, the husband of Lisette Pasquinel, who has been assigned to find and establish an Army fort on the Plains and the venal mountain man Sam Purchas, who acts as a guide to the wagon train that the Zendts accompany. During their journey west, Levi and Elly quickly fall in love. He also makes a surprise visit at the orphanage and asks Elly to accompany him on the journey west, as his bride. After befriending Elly, Levi decides to leave Lancaster and head west to Oregon. The only people who know the truth are two late adolescent girls – Elly Zahm and Laura Lou Booker. The accusation not only leads Levi to be shunned by the Mennonite community, but also by his older brothers – include Mahlon, who had plans to marry Rebecca. Unfortunately, Rebecca becomes aware that the orphanage’s head mistress is observing them and accuses Levi of attempted rape. Encouraged by the flirtations of a local Mennonite girl named Rebecca Stolfitz, Levi kisses her after they deliver market scrapings to a local orphanage. This infraction proved to be nothing in compare what follows. The story begins in the early spring of 1845, in which young Levi Zendt irritates his more conservative family by forgetting to appear on time for Sunday supper with a local minister. This episode also shifted its focus upon a new central character a young Mennonite from Lancaster, Pennsylvania named Levi Zendt. The third episode of "CENTENNIAL", "The Wagon and the Elephant", picks up at least fifteen to sixteen years after the last episode ended. ![]() "CENTENNIAL" (1978-79) - Episode Three "The Wagon and the Elephant" Commentary ![]()
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