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The Dakotas (TV Series)
''The Dakotas'' is an ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series starring Larry Ward and featuring Jack Elam, Chad Everett, and Michael Greene, broadcast during 1963. The short-lived program is considered a spin-off of Clint Walker's ''Cheyenne''. ''The Dakotas'' was cancelled one week after heavy viewer protest over an objectionable scene. Synopsis The series follows the efforts of U.S. Marshal Frank Ragan ( Larry Ward) and his three deputies, J. D. Smith (Jack Elam), Vance Porter ( Mike Greene), and Del Stark ( Chad Everett) as they try to keep order in the Dakota Territory during the Gilded Age prior to statehood in 1889. Series history All four characters initially appeared in an April 23, 1962, episode of ''Cheyenne'' entitled "A Man Called Ragan", directors Richard C. Sarafian and Robert Sparr (uncredited), and writers Anthony Spinner (teleplay) and Harry Whittington (story). However, the degree to which this episode makes ''The Dakotas'' a spin-off of ''Cheyenne' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Brewster
Diane Brewster (March 11, 1931 – November 12, 1991) was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in television series of the 1950s and 1960s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in the Western '' Maverick'' with James Garner; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in ''Leave It to Beaver''; and doomed wife Helen Kimble in '' The Fugitive''. Brewster was a direct descendant of William Brewster, a Pilgrim and Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Early years Brewster's father was Phillip Sloan Brewster, a trial lawyer in Missouri; her mother was Geraldine (née Craddock); she had an older brother, Paul. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri and went to Shawnee Mission High School. Her 1949 senior class yearbook lists a nickname, "Dissy". She was a Pep Club member, Class Secretary, Cheerleader and Homecoming Queen Attendant. Later, Brewster studied liberal arts at the University of Kansas. Following her sophomore year at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheyenne (TV Series)
''Cheyenne'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film studio, which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bros. original series produced by William T. Orr. Synopsis The show starred Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, a physically large cowboy with a gentle spirit in search of frontier justice, who wanders the American West in the days after the American Civil War. The first episode, "Mountain Fortress", is about robbers pretending to be Good Samaritans. It features James Garner (who had briefly been considered for the role of Cheyenne, but could not be locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hagen
Kevin Hagen (April 3, 1928 – July 9, 2005) was an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Hiram Baker on NBC's TV series ''Little House on the Prairie.'' Kevin Hagen played Ed Bosworth in a 1958 episode of '' Have Gun - Will Travel,'' titled "Three Sons." Early life Hagen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to professional ballroom dancers, Haakon Olaf Hagen and Marvel Lucile Wadsworth. After his father deserted the family, Hagen was raised by his mother, grandmother, and aunts. As a 15-year-old, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where one of his aunts had taken a teaching job. Hagen attended Portland's Jefferson High School. His family returned to Chicago, and he attended Oregon State University in Corvallis and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, from which he received a degree in international relations. Acting roles Hagen's first regular role on a series was in 1958 playing John Colton, the city administrator of New Orleans in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan (December 28, 1923 – May 15, 1988) was an American character actor. His work includes 185 screen credits between 1949 and 1987 for roles in both film and television, as well a number more on stage. Background Duggan was born in Franklin, Indiana, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana. During World War II, he served in the United States Army 40th Special Services (entertainment), Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play ''Dreamgirl''. Duggan developed a friendship with Broadway director Daniel Mann on a troop ship when returning from the war. Duggan appeared on Broadway in ''The Rose Tattoo'', ''Gently Does It'','' Anniversary Waltz'', ''Fragile Fox'', and ''The Third Best Sport''. Duggan appeared in some 70 films and in more than 140 television programs between 1949 and 1987. In film he appeared in Westerns, war pictures, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Robinson (American Actor)
Christopher Brown Robinson (November 5, 1938 – June 9, 2025) was an American actor, screenwriter, and film director, sometimes credited as Christopher Robinson. Career Robinson began his career as an actor in the 1950s. Robinson was a young adult actor and stunt man and appeared in such films of the 1950s as '' Diary of a High School Bride'' and '' Beast from Haunted Cave''. He was in '' Combat!'' Season 1, "The Reunion" in 1962. In the 1960s, he was cast as flight engineer and top turret gunner Technical Sgt. Alexander "Sandy" Komansky on ABC's '' 12 O'Clock High'' in the last two seasons. In 1972, he got the lead as a fanatical snake charmer in the horror movie, ''Stanley''. Robinson played Dr. Rick Webber on ''General Hospital'' from 1978 to 1986. Following this role, he joined '' Another World'' in late 1987, where he played the role of Jason Frame, and was reunited with Denise Alexander, who had played Lesley on ''General Hospital''. Jason was murdered in early 1989. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Cooper
Wilma Jeanne Cooper (October 25, 1928 – May 8, 2013) was an American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' (1973–2013). At the time of her death, she had played Katherine for nearly 40 years, and her name appears on the list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States. Cooper also appeared on numerous episodic television series in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as several film roles. She was the mother of three children, the eldest being actor Corbin Bernsen. Early life Wilma Jeanne Cooper was born on October 25, 1928, in Taft, California, the youngest of three children of Albert Troy Cooper and his wife, the former Sildeth Evelyn Moore. The family lived in Kern County for several years, first in Taft until 1942 and then in Bakersfield. Her mother died on August 21, 1944, the year before Jeanne graduated from Taft Union High School. Her father lived for several more decades, dying on Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macready
George Peabody Macready Jr. (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains. Early life Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 29, 1899. He claimed to be a descendent of the 19th-century English actor William Charles Macready, whose example he cited as the chief inspiration for his own pursuit of acting."Macready Got Scar in Wreck" ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''. August 20, 1961. p. TV24. Retrieved August 26, 2023. He graduated from the local Classical High School and, in 1917, from |
Wheel Series
A wheel series, wheel show, wheel format or umbrella series is a television series in which two or more regular programs are rotated in the same time slot. Sometimes the wheel series is given its own umbrella title and promoted as a single unit instead of promoting its separate components. The most successful example of a wheel series on American television was the '' NBC Mystery Movie'', which debuted in 1971 on NBC and ran for seven seasons. Three of the shows in the rotation, ''Columbo'', '' McCloud'', and ''McMillan & Wife'', were among the most successful shows on American television in the 1970s. History The concept debuted in 1955 with ABC's ''Warner Bros. Presents''. ''Warner Bros. Presents'' was a one-hour show rotating three series based on the movies '' King's Row'', ''Casablanca'', and ''Cheyenne'', with the last 10 minutes set aside for the segment, ''Behind The Cameras at Warner Brothers''. Warner Bros. was inspired by the ''Disneyland'' anthology series to do the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronco (TV Series)
''Bronco'' is a Western television series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin. Overview ''Bronco'' premiered in the fall of 1958 when Warner Bros. executives and actor Clint Walker clashed over Walker's contract on the series ''Cheyenne''. Walker had walked out on his show over such stringent clauses as a requirement that he return half of all personal appearance fees to Warner Bros., and that he only record for Warner music labels. When the two sides came to an impasse, the network hired newcomer Ty Hardin to play the new character of Bronco Layne, but kept the title of ''Cheyenne''. When Walker came back to his series, ''Bronco'' became a spin-off of ''Cheyenne''. ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilded Age
In History of the United States, United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain's 1873 novel ''The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today''. Historians saw late 19th-century economic expansion as a time of materialistic excesses marked by widespread political corruption. It was a time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern United States, Northern and Western United States, Western United States. As American wages grew much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, and Industrialisation, industrialization demanded an increasingly skilled labor force, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants. The rapid expansion of industrialization led to Real wages, real wage growth of 40% from 1860 to 1890 and spread across the increasing labor force. The average annual wage per indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakota Territory
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota. History The Dakota Territory consisted of the northernmost part of the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, as well as the southernmost part of Rupert's Land, which was acquired in 1818 when the boundary was changed to the 49th parallel. The name refers to the Dakota branch of the Sioux tribes which occupied the area at the time. Most of Dakota Territory was formerly part of the Minnesota and Nebraska territories. When Minnesota became a state in 1858, the leftover area between the Missouri River and Minnesota's western boundary fell unorganized. When the Yankton Treaty was signed later that year, ceding much of what had been Sioux Indian land to the U.S. Government, early settlers formed a provis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Walker
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker (May 30, 1927 – May 21, 2018) was an American actor. He played cowboy Cheyenne (TV series), Cheyenne Bodie in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC/Warner Bros. Western (genre)#Film, western series ''Cheyenne (TV series), Cheyenne'' from 1955 to 1962. Early life Clint Walker was born in Hartford, Illinois.Walker's biography from his official website His mother was Czech. He had a fraternal twin sister, Neoma Lucille "Lucy" Westbrook and another half-sister. Walker left school to work at a factory and on a riverboat, then joined the United States Merchant Marine at the age of 17. After leaving the Merchant Marine, he did odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas; Long Beach, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a Doorman (profession), door ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
