Pearline Hastings (Grace Gaynor) is a gun moll in the 1967 episode "The Night of the Bogus Bandits" for the TV series "The Wild Wild West".
Pearline is one of Dr. Miguelito Loveless's consorts in crime, the other being Belladonna (Marianna Hill). This is Dr. Loveless's eighth of ten appearances in The Wild Wild West series.
Dr. Loveless (Michael Dunn) is going to try to take over the western part of the United States. This time he is training an army of his own to perform the take over. He acts like a stage director with his goons practicing their roles in a model of a bank. It goes wrong, and the man playing James West is shot and the bullet ended up real. The man responsible for not changing his bullets to blanks is shot by another on orders of Loveless.
The next day they successfully rob a bank and then burn the money in the desert. They do this, because it is all chicken scratch, and the fact that they know the banknotes all have serial numbers on them that can be traced back.
James T. West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) blunder into his plot entirely by accident because of some robbery money which one of the Loveless army members mistakenly spends. The mystery for West & Artie is that in spite of a huge series of robberies by these bogus bandits, this one bill is the only one which has shown up to be spent anyplace.
Gordon poses as Mr. Lindsey, a painter and boarder at the home of Mrs. Bancroft (Patsy Kelly). Mrs. Bancroft is the landlady of the home where Loveless' gang presides. Pearline is posing as a maid in the household. While there he allowed a singed $100 bill to be seen by Bancroft and her other gang members. The next day while Mrs. Bancroft is hanging the laundry on the clothes line, Pearline pulls a gun on him, since he knows too much. She explains that the $100 bill was stolen from the bank and then from a bonfire. When she demands the $100 bill from Lindsey, he is about to hand it to her. However, she tells him she will wait, and get it after he is dead. She proceeds to shoot Gordon. Fortunately, the bullet was stopped by Gordon's sketch book.
West is captured and brought to an outside arena where Loveless and Belladonna view from a crows nest to view a planned competiton to the death. One by one, West is able to defeat the hired guns. This was all orchestrated by Loveless, and when West comes out victorious. However, Pearline and the rest of Loveless' goons capture West and bring him back. West is about to be put to death once and for all. However, Artemus poses as an old gunsmith and causes a distraction with a fire. He and West are able to escape over the wall and ride off on horseback.
Later West and Artemus are once again captured. They are able to turn the tide and Loveless is able to escape escape by going down the laundry shoot and making a getaway. However, he is forced to sacrifice Belladonna in the process. He makes his escape in a baby carriage being pushed by Pearline.
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- Grace Gaynor appeared as henchwoman Chickadee for arch criminal the Penguin in the two adjoining 1966 episodes "The Penguin's Nest" "The Bird's Last Jest", for the TV series "Batman".
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