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On November 9, 1960, she was cast as the lead guest star in "The Cathy Eckhart Story" on Wagon Train, with husband-and-wife actors John Larch and Vivi Janiss as Ben and Sarah Harness. Oliver was cast in the 1960 episode of The Deputy as the long-lost daughter of star Henry Fonda 's late girl friend, and appeared in Dick Powell's Zane Grey ...
Wagon Train is an American Western television series that was produced by Revue Studios. [1] The series was inspired by the 1950 John Ford film Wagon Master . [ 2 ] It ran for eight seasons, with the first episode airing in the United States on September 18, 1957 ( 1957-09-18 ) and the final episode on May 2, 1965 ( 1965-05-02 ) . [ 3 ]
Moore was a guest star in such television Westerns as The Rifleman, Wagon Train (S1E2 & S7E25), Gunsmoke (title character twice; S5E21's "Coleen So Green" & S10E34's "Honey Pot"), The Rebel, The High Chaparral, The Wild Wild West and The Virginian. By the 1970s, her career began to wane because of her drug and alcohol addictions.
Gene Roddenberry said he pitched Star Trek as "Wagon Train to the stars", referring to the concept of a recurring cast on a long journey with famous guest stars becoming the focus of various stories. In his March 11, 1964, initial pitch document, he wrote, " Star Trek is a Wagon Train concept—built around characters who travel to worlds ...
Over the following two decades, she guest-starred in dozens of television series, including the title character in several Wagon Train episodes, such as "The Barbara Lindquist Story", and in occasional roles in films such as Airport (1970). She appeared as various British women in the ABC television series Twelve O'Clock High (1964–66).
She had leading guest star roles on such popular shows as Adventures in Paradise, Bronco, Route 66, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Wagon Train, often with her photo used to advertise the upcoming episode in newspapers.
[7] In 1964 Freeman received a Photoplay Gold Medal nomination for Best Female Star. [7] Freeman also made a number of guest appearances on different television shows from the 1950s through the 1980s including National Velvet, Family Affair, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and Bonanza.
"This Train Don't Stop Till It Gets There" 1964 Wagon Train: Nancy Styles "The Nancy Styles Story" 1966 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Tina Tracy "Lies, Lies, Lies" 1967 Off to See the Wizard: Elizabeth "Rhino" 1967–1969 The Mothers-in-Law: Suzie Hubbard Buell 56 episodes 1970 The Virginian: Corey Ann Skeet "With Love, Bullets and Valentines" 1971