First Person: You are what you watch

Anyone remember “Branded”? No, not a well-positioned market commodity or a futile attempt to establish identity. I’m talking about the Chuck Connors TV show that ran for two seasons in 1965 and 1966. I’m old enough to have seen it in its first run, which is nothing to brag about.

Each show would open with Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) having the patches ripped from his Army uniform, falsely disgraced as a coward and sent into the raw Western countryside to find himself and re-establish his reputation as, I don’t know what. The Rifleman? (Google it, or ask your dad.)