7 Faces of Dr. Lao

"This is the circus of Dr. Lao. We show you things that you don't know. Oh, we spare no pains and we spare no dough. Oh, we want to give you one hell of a show! And youth may come and age may go, But no more circuses like this show."

"Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand."

"Whatever men do not understand they find unconvincing."

"Now, Mr. Cunningham, do you suppose this garrulous intruder may be a... a swindler, perhaps, an assassin, a charlatan plotting some curious disaster for your town? Such characters exist, but they are secretive rather than mysterious. I, sir, am a major mystery."

"You worry too much. You worry about how I brought my circus to Abalone with wagons. You worry about the future of your town. Or, if the sun will rise a year from today. The answer is to such matters, remain closed behind a curtain. Then, time says, presto! And out they come."

"My dear lady, the role of skeptic becomes you not. There are things in the world not even the experience of a lifetime spent in Abalone could conceive of."

"Mike, the whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."

"Now, come on, Doc! What kind of oriental hocus-pocus is going on around here? A circus with no wagons, no animals, no cages? A crazy old magician? What's it all about?"

"All those stories about me, they're lies. I'm not a bank robber or a cattle rustler, and I've never kicked a woman in the stomach even once, really!"

"Apollonius of Tyana: I only read futures; I don't evaluate them."

"Merlin: Tricks? Gadzooks, Madam, these are not tricks! I do magic. I — I create, I transpose, I transubstantiate, I break up, I recombine — but I never trick!"

"Enter The Fabulous World of Dr. Lao... Whose Wonders Never Cease!"

"Bolt the doors! Lock the windows! Dr. Lao's coming to town!"

"Which face will the wily doctor reveal to you?"

"Tony Randall — Dr. Lao, Apollonius of Tyana, many other roles"

"Barbara Eden — Angela Benedict"

"Kevin Tate — Mike Benedict"

"Arthur O'Connell — Clint Stark"

"John Ericson — Ed Cunningham"

"Lee Patrick — Mrs. Cassin"

"Frank Cady — Mayor James Sargent"

"Royal Dano -- Lucas. Stark's henchman"

"Dal McKennon — Lean Cowboy"

"Chubby Johnson — Fat Cowboy"

"Douglas Fowley — Toothless Cowboy"