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Colonel Carrington (Roy Gordon) and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sioux Indian territory of Wyoming during the 1880s. The Colonel recruits former cavalry soldiers turned frontier scouts Jim Bridger (Dennis Morgan) and "Dakota Jack" Gaines (Richard Denning), now running a Wild West show, to head the fort building.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
Edmund Hashim, also credited as Ed Hashim (June 2, 1933 – July 2, 1974) [2] [3] was an American actor. [4] He was known for Hellfighters (1968), The Green Hornet (1967), several different roles in Gunsmoke (1966-1969), Giacobbe ed Esau (1963), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961), Brave Eagle (1955-1956), and many other roles between 1955 and 1971.
Cheyenne is an American Western television series which ran on ABC from 1955 to 1962. The show broadcast 108 black-and-white episodes. The show broadcast 108 black-and-white episodes. 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.
The series ran from September 13, 1955, until September 4, 1956, [2] or September 11, 1956. [3] While neither a critical nor popular success, [4] this wheel series is an historically important program. Perhaps most significantly, it is the first television program of any kind made by Warner Bros.
The crumbling and eventual death of the old DuMont Network meant the 1955–56 television season would be the first year in which the three major remaining U.S. television networks would be the only full-time commercial participants in prime time, a situation that was to remain for the next 31 years, until Fox entered prime time on Sunday ...
Season 3 Episode 12: "Slide, Darling, Slide" 1954–1955 The Stu Erwin Show: Joyce Erwin 26 episodes 1955 TV Reader's Digest: Sally Season 1 Episode 14: "Honeymoon in Mexico" 1955 The Loretta Young Show: Angela Season 2 Episode 32: "He Always Comes Home" 1955 It's Always Jan: Val Marlowe Season 1 Episode 1: "The Four of Us" 1955 It's Always Jan ...
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1955–56 season as measured by ... The Jack Benny Show: CBS: 37.2 6: December Bride: 37.0 7: You ...