In 1962, Chief Yowlachie played "The Great Chief" in the episode "The Black Robe" of NBC's western series, The Tall Man. In the story line, Governor Lew Wallace of the New Mexico Territory, played by Robert Burton, tries to thwart a French foreign agent from supplying arms to the Mescalero Apaches in a murky plot to reoccupy Mexico. Slim Pickens appears in this episode as Starr and Martin Landau as Father Gueschim, a Roman Catholic priest.