TALES OF WELLS FARGO (1957-62) 201 EPISODES This long-running series proved to be very popular (certainly in this writer’s household), due in the main to its star Dale Robertson who positively oozed integrity as Special Wells Fargo Agent Jim Hardie. The real Wells Fargo actually employed special agents who […]
RIVERBOAT (1959-61) 44 EPISODES Darren McGavin & Burt Reynolds in Riverboat Set in the nineteenth century, mainly on the Mississippi River, this series follows the adventures of Captain Grey Holden (Darren McGavin) after he wins a river boat in a poker game. Burt Reynolds, in his television debut, plays […]
There was a time, back in the fifties when television suddenly took off, that saw the western genre dominating the box. Scores of series were launched throughout the late forties, the fifties and sixties. Many of them lasted only a single season (even less), but others made a fortune for […]
Bette Davis was never a raving beauty. Indeed, when Jack Warner sent a representative to the railway station to greet her on her arrival in Tinsel Town, the man returned empty-handed, declaring that nobody even remotely looking like a movie star got off the train. Be that as it […]
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