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The Civil War is about to begin and the family wants to go west to make sure that sons Seth (later called Luke) and Jed (later called Josh) are not drafted. Uncle Zeb agrees to lead the family on the perilous journey , but the war has greater consequences for the family than they could imagine.
How the West Was Won is an American Western television series that starred James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, and Richard Kiley.Loosely based on the 1962 Cinerama film of the same name, it began with a two-hour television film, The Macahans, in 1976, followed by a mini-series in 1977, and a regular series in 1978 and 1979.
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.
How the West Was Won may refer to: How the West Was Won, a 1962 American Western film How the West Was Won, a 1970s television series loosely based on the film; How the West Was Won (Bing Crosby album) (1959) How the West Was Won (Led Zeppelin album) (2003) How the West Was Won (Peter Perrett album) (2017) How the West Was Won, a 2002 album by ...
He won an Emmy Award for his role in the miniseries How the West Was Won (1978), [3] and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Montalbán was professionally active into his eighties, providing voices for animated films and commercials, and appearing as Grandfather Valentin in the Spy Kids franchise.
The first season is considered by some sources (The complete directory to prime time network and cable TV shows, 1946-present by Tim Brooks) to be a mini-series, not a season. However, this source does not actually provide a list of episodes. All sources that provide a list of episodes list the 1977 mini-series as "Season 1".
As per my comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television#TV infobox episode count source, I do not support listing "29 episodes" here. I think List of How the West Was Won episodes should be renumbered (i.e. the backdoor pilot should not be listed as "episode 1"), and in the Infobox I think it should be listed as "28 episodes + TV movie" or ...
Moore made a brief appearance as a cab driver in the 1964 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Wednesday Woman." He also appeared in two episodes of another CBS sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show, "The Impractical Joke" posing, for a spoof, as an Internal Revenue Service agent and "The Case Of The Pillow" as a shifty home goods salesman named Mr ...