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Guns of Will Sonnett 9/8/1967
- 9/15/1969 ABC
Color - 30 minutes
Produced by Aaron Spelling
Guns of Will Sonnett Cast Walter Brennan as Will Sonnett
Dack Rambo as Jeff Sonnett
The estimable Walter Brennan played the
elder (he was 73 at the time) Will Sonnett, whose own son James had left Will's
infant grandson, Jeff in his care. 19 years pass and still no James, so both
Will and Jeff set out to find him. They run into many people who claim to know
the elusive James, who has become a gunslinger. Some folks speak well of him
and others ill. They never found him. However, in the last original episode
they meet a man who claims to have killed James. Live by the
gun...
Trivia - Dack Rambo was the twin brother of Dirk Rambo, who died
in 1967 in a fire.
Passings Walter Brennan died in 1974 of emphysema. Dack
Rambo in 1994 of AIDS.
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Walter Brennan and Dack Rambo
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Cowboy in Africa 9/11/1967 -
9/16/1968 ABC
Color - 60 minutes - 26 episodes
Cowboy in Africa Cast Chuck Connors as Jim Sinclair
Tom Nardini as John Henry
Ronald Howard as Wing Commander
Gerald
Edwards as Samson
Okay, so maybe this stretches the point inasmuch as
it's an African Western. But Chuck Connors played champion rodeo cowboy Jim
Sinclair, who had been hired by a Brit named Commander Hayes to bring American
expertise to his game ranch in Kenya. Sinclair got help from his Navajo blood
brother John Henry and sort of adopted an orphaned Kikuya boy named Samson. I
know. A Navajo named John Henry and a Kikuya named Samson.
This was
based on Ivan Tors' movie Africa-Texas Style! (1967). Some of the backgrounds
were shot in Africa while others came from the Africa USA theme park in
southern California.
Passings Chuck Connors died in 1992 of lung cancer.
Ronald Howard (Leslie Howard's son) died in 1996.
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BUY Hondo(1953 Movie)
Hondo 9/8/1967 - 12/29/1967
ABC
Color - 60 minutes
Hondo Cast Ralph Taeger as Hondo Lane
Noah Beery Jr.
as Buffalo Baker
Gary Clarke as Capt. Richards
Kathie Browne as Angie
Dow
Buddy Foster as Johnny Dow
Michael Pate as Chief Vittoro
William Bryant as Col. Crook
Taken from the Louis L'Amour story and
the 1953 John Wayne movie, this story was about a cavalry scout in the Arizona
Territory around 1870. Hondo had been a Confederate officer who came to live
wth the Apaches under Chief Vittoro. But his Indian bride, the Chief's
daughter, had been slain in an army massacre. So now he worked for the Army
trying to avoid further bloodshed.
FYI - Buddy Foster is Jodie Foster's
brother.
Passings Noah Berry Jr. died in 1991 - but not before we
came to love him as Jim Rockford's father! |
From the
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Dundee and the Culhane 9/6/1967 -
12/13/1967 CBS
Color - 60 minutes - 12 episodes
Dundee and the Culhane Cast John Mills as Dundee
Sean Garrison as The Culhane
Although British attorney Dundee's
offices were in Sausalito, across the Bay from San Francisco, he and apprentice
Culhane wandered the West for their clients, always trying to impose rule of
law in an often lawless land. |
Sean Garrison and John
Mills
From the
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(Legend of) Custer 9/6/1967 -
12/27/1967 ABC
Color - 60 minutes
(Legend of) Custer Cast Wayne Maunder as Lt. Col.
George Armstrong Custer
Slim Pickens as California Joe Milner
Peter
Palmér as Sergeant James Bustard
Michael Dante as Crazy Horse
Robert F. Simon as Brigadier General Alfred Terry
Grant Woods as
Captain Miles Keogh
This deals with the period of his life after the
Civil War but before that error in judgement at the Little Bighorn. He has lost
rank as the result of a court martial and been posted to Fort Hays, Kansas to
take charge of a 7th Army Cavalry Regiment.
Although his commander,
General Terry disapproved of Custer's methods, manner and even his hair, he
realized that Custer was doing an excellent job of pulling together the rag-tag
7th Cav. Custer was devoted to curtailing the activities of Crazy Horse and his
Sioux brothers, a pursuit Custer could have literally, lived without. And the
show, like Custer, was short-lived.
Of historical note - 272 members of
the 7th Cavalry died with him, June 25, 1876 at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Passings Slim Pickins died in 1983 of a brain tumor.
Robert Simon in 1992 of a heart attack |
Wayne Maunder
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Lancer 9/24/1968 - 6/23/1970
CBS
Color - 60 minutes - 51 episodes
Lancer Cast James Stacy as Johnny Madrid Lancer
Wayne Maunder as Scott Lancer
Andrew Duggan as Murdoch Lancer
Paul
Brinegar as Jelly Hoskins
Elizabeth Baur as Teresa O'Brien
Two sons
with widely different backgrounds (and different mothers) arrive to help their
father keep his land and manage his holdings. They had never even met each
other until their father asked them to come to his aid. Johnny had been a
drifter/gunfighter who had wandered the West. Scott was a Boston bred college
boy. But together they form an alliance to help the father and his young ward,
Teresa.
They showed reruns of this thru the summer of
1971.
Wayne Maunder had just been in the bomb, Custer (see above) and
Paul Brinegar had played Wishbone on Rawhide.
Passings Andrew Duggan died in 1988 of throat cancer.
Paul Brinegar died in 1995.
External Links
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From the
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| James Stacy Trivia |
| Regarding James Stacy (Johnny). In 1973 James Stacy
was riding a motorcycle with his girlfriend when they were struck by a drunk
driver. The girlfriend was killed and Stacy lost his left arm and left leg.
Both his ex-wives, Connie Stevens and Kim Darby, plus friends pitched in to
help him with his medical bills. He continues to act but only in roles he feels
appropriately represent the handicapped. |
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Here Come The Brides:
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Here Come the Brides 9/25/1968 -
9/18/1970 ABC
Color - 60 minutes - 52 episodes
Here Come the Brides Cast Robert Brown as Jason Bolt
Bobby Sherman as Jeremy Bolt
David Soul as Joshua Bolt
Joan
Blondell as Lottie Hatfield
Bridget Hanley as Candy Pruitt
Mark Lenard
as Aaron Stempel
Bo Svenson as Big Swede
Susan Tolsky as Biddie Cloom
Henry Beckman as Capt. Roland Francis Clancey
Mitzi Hoag as Miss Essie
Gillis
Hoke Howell as Ben Jenkins
This show was as much comedy as
adventure. Here's the story. Jason Bolt and his brothers are at risk of losing
ther timberland at Bridal Veil Mountain because the loggers are in revolt over
the lack of women in nearby Seattle. So Jason sails on Capt. Clancey's ship
back to New Bedford Massachusetts. He retnrns with 100 women who must stay for
one year.
Brides was a springboard for two careers. Bobby Sherman's
singing career would take off in 1969 with the releases of "Little Woman," "La
La La (If I Had You)," "Easy Come, Easy Go," and "Julie, Do Ya Love
Me,"
David Soul would go on to be Det. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson of Starsky
and Hutch. While Mark Lenard is best known as Sarek, Spock's father, on
Star Trek.
Passings Joan Blondell died in 1979 of leukemia. Lenard
died in 1996 of mulitple myeloma.
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