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Law of the Plainsman is a Western television series starring Michael Ansara that aired on the NBC television network from October 1, 1959, until May 5, 1960. The character of Native American U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart was introduced in two episodes of the popular ABC Western television series The Rifleman starring Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain. Law of the Plainsman is distinctive and unique in that it was one of the few television programs that featured a Native American as the lead character, a bold move for U.S.network television at that time. Ansara had earlier appeared in the series Broken Arrow, having portrayed the Apache chief, Cochise. Ansara, however, was not Native American but of Syrian descent. Ansara played Sam Buckhart, an Apache Indian who saved the life of a U.S. Cavalry officer after an Indian ambush. When the officer died, he left Sam money that was used for an education at private schools and Harvard University. After school, he returned to New Mexico where he became a Deputy Marshal working for Marshal Andy Morrison. He lived in a boarding house run by Martha Commager. The only other continuing character was 8-year old Tess Logan, an orphan who had been rescued by Buckhart. Robert Harland, later of Target: The Corruptors! starred in seven episodes as Deputy Billy Lordan. Wayne Rogers, who went on to star in another Four Star western, Stagecoach West, and later, M*A*S*H, also played deputy Lordan in several episodes.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1959 - 1960
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 30
Director: Ted Post , Arthur Hilton , William F. Claxton
Producer: Jules V. Levy
Stars: Michael Ansara , J. Pat O'Malley , Sam Reese , Don Grady , Francis McDonald , Ted de Corsia
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Stories of the Century is a 39-episode Western television series starring Jim Davis that ran in syndication through Republic Pictures between January 23, 1954, and March 11, 1955.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1954 - 1955
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 39
Director: Arthur J. Vitarelli , William Witney , Franklin Adreon
Producer: Edward J. White
Stars: Jim Davis , Kristine Miller , Emile Meyer , Richard Jaeckel , Herbert Heyes , Pat Hogan
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The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1965 - 1966
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 26
Director: Joseph Pevney , James B. Clark , Paul Henreid
Producer: William Dozier
Stars: Lloyd Bridges , Bethel Leslie , Beverly Garland , Larry Ward , David Opatoshu , Edward Binns
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The Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1976 - 1979
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 28
Director: Harry Falk , Alf Kjellin , Vincent McEveety
Producer:
Stars: James Arness , Fionnula Flanagan , Bruce Boxleitner , Kathryn Holcomb , William Kirby Cullen , Vicki Schreck
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Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1965 - 1966
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 48
Director: Marc Daniels , Bernard McEveety , William Witney
Producer: Mark Goodson , Bill Todman
Stars: Chuck Connors , Chad Everett , Walter Burke , Lee Delano , Dick Clark , Harry Townes
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Yancy Derringer is an American Western series
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1958 - 1959
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 34
Director: Richard Sale , Mary Loos
Producer: Buck Houghton
Stars: X Brands , Kevin Hagen , Jock Mahoney , Richard Devon , Sol Gorss , Ken Mayer
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The Dakotas is an ABC/Warner Brothers western television series starring Larry Ward and featuring Jack Elam broadcast during 1963. The short-lived program is considered a spin-off of Clint Walker's Cheyenne. The Dakotas is perhaps most notable for the fact that it was cancelled one week after heavy viewer protest over an objectionable scene.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: TV-PG . 1963
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 19
Director: Richard L. Bare , Stuart Heisler , Richard C. Sarafian
Producer: William T. Orr
Stars: Chad Everett , Larry Ward , Jack Elam , Gene Roth , Telly Savalas , Claude Akins
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San Franciscans during the goldrush of the 1850s attempt to maintain law and order in their wild city. Newly arrived Matthew Wayne becomes sheriff, then marshal, and organizes the city police force while expressing interest in the young widow Fanzler and sparring with attorney Pitt. Adam Kennedy appears as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1957 - 1959
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 69
Director: Jacques Tourneur , Felix E. Feist , Hollingsworth Morse
Producer: W. Argyle Nelson , Louis F. Edelman , Robert Sisk
Stars: Richard Coogan , Sean McClory , Adam Kennedy , Nan Leslie , Art Fleming , Carole Mathews
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Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
Average Episode Run Time: 24` . MMPA: NR . 1957 - 1961
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 78
Director: William Witney , Charles Barton , Robert Stevenson
Producer: Bill Anderson
Stars: Guy Williams , Gene Sheldon , Henry Calvin , Peter Brocco , Lee Van Cleef , Patricia Medina
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Pistols 'n' Petticoats is an American Western sitcom
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1966 - 1967
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 26
Director: Leslie Goodwins , Alan Rafkin , Joseph Pevney
Producer:
Stars: Douglas Fowley , Ann Sheridan , Ruth McDevitt , Gary Vinson , Carole Wells , Robert Lowery
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Mitch Guthrie is a champion bronco rider in the rodeo who tries to keep his kid brother, Andy, from pursuing the same life.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1962 - 1963
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 28
Director: William Witney , John Brahm , Ted Post
Producer: Ralph Edwards
Stars: Slim Pickens , Andrew Prine , Earl Holliman , James Caan , Paul Newlan
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Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictional town of Nichols, Arizona, in 1914, Nichols differed from traditional Western series of the era. The main character, a sheriff, rode on a motorcycle and in an automobile rather than on the traditional horse. The hero did not carry a firearm and was generally opposed to the use of violence to solve problems, preferring other means. Margot Kidder portrayed Ruth, the love interest/barmaid of Nichols.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: TV-PG . 1971 - 1972
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 24
Director: Gerald Mayer , Gerd Oswald , Jeremy Kagan
Producer: Michael Zinberg , Frank Pierson , Joe Scully
Stars: Margot Kidder , James Garner , John Beck , Stuart Margolin , Neva Patterson , Don Newcombe
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The Oregon Trail is a 14-episode NBC western television series starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also starred Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr starred as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrayed Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: TV-PG . 1977
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 13
Director: Paul Stanley , Bill Bixby , Richard Benedict
Producer: Michael Gleason
Stars: Charles Napier , Andrew Stevens , Darleen Carr , Rod Taylor , Tony Becker , Stella Stevens
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Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season. Selected repeats were then shown once again in prime time during the summer of 1960.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1956 - 1958
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 70
Director: Frank McDonald , William Beaudine , Hollingsworth Morse
Producer: Alan Armer , Irving Asher
Stars: Michael Ansara , John Lupton , Tom Fadden , Strother Martin , John Pickard , Dan Riss
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Gunslinger was a Western television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television network from February 9 until May 18, 1961 on Thursdays from 9 to 10 p.m. EST. The series theme song was sung by Frankie Laine. Young played Cord, a young gunfighter who works undercover for the local army garrison commander, acting as a secret law enforcement agent in the territory. The series lasted for only twelve episodes. Gunslinger was the successor to Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1961
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 12
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen , Jesse Hibbs
Producer: James Lister , Lynn Stalmaster , Seeleg Lester
Stars: John Pickard , Preston Foster , Dee Pollock , Charles Gray , Tony Young , Midge Ware
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Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The series was likely based on a true-life personality of the 1930s, Jack Cones, the "Flying Constable" of Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County, California, although this claim is unverified. Although the series had strong western elements, King mostly captured criminals and spies, and found lost hikers with the use of his plane, the Songbird. Though the planes used changed during the course of the series, the later model was not given a number, but was still known as the Songbird. King and his niece, Penny, lived on the Flying Crown Ranch, near the town of Grover, Arizona. Penny and Clipper were also pilots, though still relatively inexperienced and looking to their uncle for guidance and mentoring. Penny was an accomplished air racer and rated multi-engine pilot, whom Sky trusted to fly the Songbird. In the third TV episode, Penny refers to Clipper as "my brother", so they are siblings. The musical score was largely the work of Herschel Burke Gilbert.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1952 - 1959
Total Seasons: 4 . Total Episodes: 72
Director:
Producer:
Stars: Kirby Grant , Gloria Winters , Mike Steen
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Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1952 - 1954
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 40
Director: Thomas Carr , George Archainbaud
Producer: William Boyd
Stars: Edgar Buchanan , William Boyd , Pierre Watkin , Timothy Carey , Anna Navarro , Edward Clark
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Mackenzie's Raiders is an American Western television series starring Richard Carlson that aired thirty-nine episodes in syndication from 1958 to 1959. The series was narrated by Art Gilmore.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1958
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 39
Director: Walter Doniger , Franklin Adreon , Richard Carlson
Producer:
Stars: Richard Carlson
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A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 5` . MMPA: TV-MA . 2017
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 7
Director: Scott Frank
Producer: Mimi Munson , Steven Soderbergh , Scott Frank
Stars: Jack O'Connell , Michelle Dockery , Scoot McNairy , Merritt Wever , Thomas Brodie-Sangster , Tantoo Cardinal
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A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.
Average Episode Run Time: 45` . MMPA: TV-14 . 2012 - 2017
Total Seasons: 6 . Total Episodes: 63
Director: Michael Offer , Peter Weller , Kari Skogland
Producer: Vincent E. McDaniel , Mariah Salazar , Darrell House
Stars: Robert Taylor , Katee Sackhoff , Lou Diamond Phillips , Cassidy Freeman , Adam Bartley , Lora Martinez-Cunningham
