TWO FACES WEST (1960-1) 39 EPISODES Just when we thought there were no gimmicky ideas left for TV westerns, along came Two Faces West in 1960. Charles Bateman starred as both Dr Rick January and his identical twin brother Marshal Ben January. The Marshal is a violent man and […]
TRACKDOWN (1957-9) 71 EPISODES Robert Culp starred as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman (who thinks up these Christian names?), who travels throughout the Old West hunting down bad guys and bringing them to justice. The end credits claim the stories are true and based on actual cases from the Texas […]
Jeffrey Hunter as Temple Houston TEMPLE HOUSTON (1963-4) 26 EPISODES This series starred Jeffrey Hunter as the real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston, son of the legendary Sam Houston. Unfortunately, the producers seemed unsure of just how they would […]
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 […]
STORIES OF THE CENTURY (1954-5) 39 EPISODES This series was set in the American West (from the 1850s through to 1900), much of the footage being lifted from various westerns turned out by Republic Pictures over the years, via that studio’s subsidiary, Hollywood […]
SKY KING (1952-59) 72 EPISODES Beginning as a radio show in 1946, Sky King evolved into a television series six years later. And a popular one at that. It starred Kirby Grant as Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler ‘Sky’ King, a character said to have been based […]
SARA (1976) 12 EPISODES This series of just twelve sixty-minute episodes starred Brenda Vaccaro and was based on the novel The Revolt of Sarah Perkins by Marian Cockrell. Set in Independence Colorado in the 1870s, the show sees Brenda portraying an unmarried schoolteacher, Sara Yarnell, who gives up her […]
THE ‘L’ WORD (2004-9) A couple of weeks ago I was skimming through ‘STAN’, looking for something light to watch, when I came across this series. I hurriedly assumed the ‘L’ stood for ‘love’ and, since it starred Jennifer Beals (an actress I have always admired), I decided to […]
THE ROUNDERS (1966-7) 17 EPISODES MGM churned out this series in an endeavour to capitalize on the popularity of the 1965 comedy western of the same name that starred Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda. Unfortunately, the series did not feature stars of […]
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 […]
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