I happened upon a television episode that recast the plot of a popular film as a Western.

A wily auctioneer named "Nick Finn" arrives in Heaven, Arizona and slowly begins to corrupt the inhabitants. The local blacksmith, "Michael Peters" engages the auctioneer to sell a few horses, but trouble quickly ensues. The livestock dies as soon as the transactions are completed. The community of Heaven, which had enjoyed a good reputation, is fast become a den of iniquity.

Thomas Mitchell appeared as "Nick" while Lon Chaney, Jr., played "Michael."
The first names of the characters ought to provide a clue as to their natures.

In the early days of television, movie plots were often reused for weekly episodes on broadcast television. Thomas Mitchell should have recognized "A Warm Day in Heaven" as a thinly disguised reworking of "Alias Nick Beal" in which he had played a state politician being tempted by the satanic Nick Beal. Ray Milland appeared as the diabolical Nick. The same movie character was also used in an episode of "Father Knows Best" with John Williams replacing Milland.

Mitchell was as good as ever, but it may have been one of his final roles. He died of cancer a year later. Chaney was quite solid as the upright moral leader of the community who eventually recognizes evil personified by Nick Finn. It is one of his better television performances. When given good material and cast correctly, Chaney could deliver the goods.

I was happy to see the 1961 television episode which one IMDb commentator described as being hard to find and seldom rerun on television. Those who rated the episode scored it as 7.6/10.