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John Anderson (October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992) was an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

r to a prolific acting career, Anderson served in the United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the Military of the United States and one of seven Uniformed services of the United States. In addition to being a military branch at all times, it is unique among the armed forces in that it is also a Admiralty law agency and a Federal government of the United States regulatory agency....
 during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 where he met artist Orazio Fumagalli who became one of his best lifelong friends.

He was known for several roles, including his recurring and best known role in MacGyver
MacGyver

MacGyver is an United States adventure television series, produced in the United States and Canada, about the wiktionary:laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson....
 as Harry Jackson
Harry Jackson (MacGyver)

Harry Jackson is a fictional character portrayed by John Anderson in four episodes of the MacGyver television series. Harry is the grandfather of Angus MacGyver and a famer that lives in rural Minnesota....
, MacGyver's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 series, including The Californians
The Californians (TV series)

The Californians is a 54-episode half-hour Western television series set in the San Francisco, California gold rush of the 1850s, which aired on National Broadcasting Company from September 24, 1957, to May 26, 1959....
, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
 (twelve times), The Rifleman
The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an United States Western television program that ran from on American Broadcasting Company, from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963, a production of Four Star Television....
 (eleven times), The Virginian
The Virginian

The Virginian is an early American novel that was made into several films, a television series, and a Broadway theatre play. It is also the name for a music album by Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, released on Mint Records in 1997 in music....
 (six times), Laramie
Laramie

Laramie may refer to Laramie, Wyoming, or one of the many things named after it....
 (five times), The Big Valley
The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American television series Western fiction which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1965 to 1969. It was created by A.I....
 in various roles, The Outlaws
The Outlaws (1960 TV series)

The Outlaws is a 50-episode National Broadcasting Company Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory about Stillwater, Oklahoma....
 (twice as Simon Shaw), The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol was an United States TV program that aired on American Broadcasting Company during the 1966-1968 seasons. The show followed the exploits of four Allies of World War II soldiers who were part of a long range desert patrol group in the North African Campaign during World War II....
 (four times, three as the same charactor), Overland Trail
Overland Trail (TV series)

For the history Overland Trail, see Overland Trail.Overland Trail is a 17-episode Western television series which aired on National Broadcasting Company from February 7 to June 6, 1960, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure ....
, The Legend of Jesse James
The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)

The Legend of Jesse James is a 34-episode Western television series starring Christopher Jones in the tile role of notorious outlaw Jesse James which aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 13, 1965, to May 9, 1966....
, Man Without a Gun
Man Without a Gun

Man Without a Gun is a western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run Television syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959....
, Hawaii Five-0 and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a Western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on American Broadcasting Company-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Earp....
 as Virgil Earp
Virgil Earp

Virgil Walter Earp was one of the men involved in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona Territory of the United States. He spent his life in law enforcement, although ironically it is his younger brother Wyatt Earp, who spent most of his life as a gambler, who is better known in popular history as a western lawman....
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John Anderson (October 20, 1922 – August 7, 1992) was an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 and director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
.

Biography

Prior to a prolific acting career, Anderson served in the United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the Military of the United States and one of seven Uniformed services of the United States. In addition to being a military branch at all times, it is unique among the armed forces in that it is also a Admiralty law agency and a Federal government of the United States regulatory agency....
 during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 where he met artist Orazio Fumagalli who became one of his best lifelong friends.

He was known for several roles, including his recurring and best known role in MacGyver
MacGyver

MacGyver is an United States adventure television series, produced in the United States and Canada, about the wiktionary:laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson....
 as Harry Jackson
Harry Jackson (MacGyver)

Harry Jackson is a fictional character portrayed by John Anderson in four episodes of the MacGyver television series. Harry is the grandfather of Angus MacGyver and a famer that lives in rural Minnesota....
, MacGyver's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 series, including The Californians
The Californians (TV series)

The Californians is a 54-episode half-hour Western television series set in the San Francisco, California gold rush of the 1850s, which aired on National Broadcasting Company from September 24, 1957, to May 26, 1959....
, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
 (twelve times), The Rifleman
The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an United States Western television program that ran from on American Broadcasting Company, from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963, a production of Four Star Television....
 (eleven times), The Virginian
The Virginian

The Virginian is an early American novel that was made into several films, a television series, and a Broadway theatre play. It is also the name for a music album by Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, released on Mint Records in 1997 in music....
 (six times), Laramie
Laramie

Laramie may refer to Laramie, Wyoming, or one of the many things named after it....
 (five times), The Big Valley
The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American television series Western fiction which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1965 to 1969. It was created by A.I....
 in various roles, The Outlaws
The Outlaws (1960 TV series)

The Outlaws is a 50-episode National Broadcasting Company Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory about Stillwater, Oklahoma....
 (twice as Simon Shaw), The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol was an United States TV program that aired on American Broadcasting Company during the 1966-1968 seasons. The show followed the exploits of four Allies of World War II soldiers who were part of a long range desert patrol group in the North African Campaign during World War II....
 (four times, three as the same charactor), Overland Trail
Overland Trail (TV series)

For the history Overland Trail, see Overland Trail.Overland Trail is a 17-episode Western television series which aired on National Broadcasting Company from February 7 to June 6, 1960, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure ....
, The Legend of Jesse James
The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)

The Legend of Jesse James is a 34-episode Western television series starring Christopher Jones in the tile role of notorious outlaw Jesse James which aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 13, 1965, to May 9, 1966....
, Man Without a Gun
Man Without a Gun

Man Without a Gun is a western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run Television syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959....
, Hawaii Five-0 and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a Western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on American Broadcasting Company-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Earp....
 as Virgil Earp
Virgil Earp

Virgil Walter Earp was one of the men involved in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona Territory of the United States. He spent his life in law enforcement, although ironically it is his younger brother Wyatt Earp, who spent most of his life as a gambler, who is better known in popular history as a western lawman....
. He portrayed Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the popular TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House (1979). He portrayed the character Kevin Uxbridge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is a science fiction television program created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Set in the 24th century, about 70 years after Star Trek: The Original Series, the program features a new crew and a new Starship Enterprise....
 episode "The Survivors
The Survivors (TNG episode)

"The Survivors" is a third-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation first broadcast on October 9, 1989. In this episode, the USS Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where all but two of the 11,000 inhabitants have been killed by a mysterious attacker....
". Anderson played the role of Dr. Herbert Stiles in a series arc of CBS's Dallas
Dallas (TV series)

Dallas is a long-running United States prime-time television program soap opera that originally ran from 1978 to 1991. It revolved around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries....
.

A recurring Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is a science fiction anthology series United States television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains television syndication to this day....
 actor, he starred in four different episodes, "The Old Man in the Cave
The Old Man in the Cave

"The Old Man in the Cave" is a half-hour episode of the The Twilight Zone of The Twilight Zone . It is set in a Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction 1974, ten years after a nuclear holocaust in the United States....
", "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville (The Twilight Zone)

"Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone ....
", "The Odyssey of Flight 33
The Odyssey of Flight 33

"The Odyssey of Flight 33" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone ....
", and "A Passage for Trumpet
A Passage for Trumpet

"A Passage for Trumpet" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone ....
". Standing 6 ft 5 ½ in tall (197 cm), he bore a strong resemblance to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
, whom he portrayed twice. He was also the uncredited voice of Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
 in the Epcot
Epcot

Epcot is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. The park is dedicated to international culture and technological innovation. The second park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1982 and was named EPCOT Center until 1994....
 attraction The American Adventure
The American Adventure

The American Adventure is the host pavilion of the World Showcase within Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. It is also the name of the pavilion's main attraction, an Audio-Animatronics stage show of American history....
.

Anderson also appeared as Captain Bob Robertson on Emergency! in Season 4, Episode 16 "Smoke Eater".

John Anderson also portrayed the Ebonite
Ebonite

Ebonite is a very hard rubber first obtained by Charles Goodyear by vulcanization rubber for prolonged periods. It is about 30% to 40% sulfur.Its name comes from its intended use as an artificial substitute for ebony wood....
 interrogator in the episode "Nightmare
Nightmare

A nightmare is a dream which causes a strong unpleasant emotional response from the sleeper, typically fear or horror, being in situations of extreme danger, or the sensations of pain, bad events, falling, drowning or death....
" of the original Outer Limits TV series.

After his death in 1992, he was cremated and his ashes taken out to sea as part of his membership with the Neptune Society.

Partial filmography

  • The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Psycho
    Psycho (1960 film)

    Psycho is an Cinema of the United States Thriller /thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano. It is based on the Psycho by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein....
     (1960
    1960 in film

    The year 1960 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Ride the High Country
    Ride the High Country

    Ride the High Country is a noted 1962 in film western film. It stars Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr and Edgar Buchanan....
     (1962
    1962 in film

    The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965) The Second Wife
  • The Satan Bug
    The Satan Bug

    The Satan Bug is a science fiction film in which a US government Biological warfare United States and weapons of mass destruction#Biological weapons has had an accident....
     (1965
    1965 in film

    The year 1965 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Hallelujah Trail
    The Hallelujah Trail

    The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others....
     (1965
    1965 in film

    The year 1965 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Namu, the Killer Whale (1966
    1966 in film

    The year 1966 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Fortune Cookie
    The Fortune Cookie

    The Fortune Cookie is a 1966 in film film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first on screen collaboration, and directed by Billy Wilder....
     (1966
    1966 in film

    The year 1966 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (uncredited)
  • Welcome to Hard Times (1967
    1967 in film

    The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film....
    )
  • Day of the Evil Gun
    Day of the Evil Gun

    Day of the Evil Gun is a 1968 American traditional Western starring Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy and Dean Jagger. It was directed by Jerry Thorpe....
     (1968
    1968 in film

    The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • A Man Called Gannon (1968
    1968 in film

    The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Five Card Stud (1968
    1968 in film

    The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Massacre Harbor (1968
    1968 in film

    The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Heaven with a Gun
    Heaven with a Gun

    Heaven with a Gun is a 1969 in film western film starring Glenn Ford as a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders....
     (1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Great Bank Robbery (1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Young Billy Young
    Young Billy Young

    Young Billy Young is a 1969 in film western movie starring Robert Mitchum and featuring Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker, Jr. , David Carradine, Jack Kelly , and Paul Fix....
     (1970
    1970 in film

    The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970
    1970 in film

    The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Soldier Blue
    Soldier Blue

    Soldier Blue is an United States Revisionist Western movie made in 1970 and directed by Ralph Nelson, telling a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory....
     (1970
    1970 in film

    The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Molly and Lawless John (1973
    1973 in film

    The year 1973 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Executive Action
    Executive action

    Executive Action is a term used by the CIA starting in the early 1950s to refer to their assassination operations. These operations were often conducted by the CIA's Division D, a subsection of the agency's Directorate of Operations....
     (1973
    1973 in film

    The year 1973 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Dove
    The Dove (1974 film)

    The Dove is an United States Biographical films directed by Charles Jarrott.The picture was produced by Gregory Peck, the third and last feature film he would produce....
     (1974
    1974 in film

    The year 1974 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Landfall
    Landfall

    Landfall can refer to:* Landfall, an arrival at land on a sea or air journey* Landfall , the time at which a storm passes over shore* Landfall, Minnesota...
     (1975
    1975 in film

    The year 1975 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Specialist
    The Specialist

    The Specialist was a 1994 action film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by Luis Llosa, produced by Jerry Weintraub, and written by Alexandra Seros....
     (1975
    1975 in film

    The year 1975 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Hancocks (1976
    1976 in film

    The year 1976 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Quest
    The Quest (TV series)

    The Quest, a 15-episode Western television series which aired on National Broadcasting Company beginning September 22, 1976, starred Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson as brothers Morgan and Quentin Bodine, respectively, who are seeking the whereabouts of their long-lost sister, Patricia, being held by the Cheyenne Indians....
     (1976, NBC)
  • The Lincoln Conspiracy
    The Lincoln Conspiracy (film)

    The Lincoln Conspiracy is a 1977 in film film released by Sunn Classic Pictures which depicts certain conspiracy theory concerning the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, based on the 1977 The Lincoln Conspiracy by David W....
     (1977
    1977 in film

    The year 1977 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Zoot Suit
    Zoot suit

    A zoot suit is a Suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, Wiktionary:pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders....
     (1981
    1981 in film

    Events*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate , a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica Corporation to sell it....
    )
  • Scorpion
    Scorpion

    Scorpions are any arachnid of the order Scorpionida. They are members of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. There are about 2,000 species of scorpions, found widely distributed south of about Latitude, except New Zealand and Antarctica....
     (1986
    1986 in film

    Events*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver....
    )
  • Eight men out
    Eight Men Out

    Eight Men Out is an United States dramatic sports film, released in 1988, based on 8 Men Out, published in 1963, by Eliot Asinof. It was written and directed by John Sayles....
     (1988
    1988 in film

    Events* Michael Jackson's first film was MoonwalkerTop grossing films source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm...
    )
  • Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff

    Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
    's Thriller
    Thriller (US TV series)

    Thriller is an Anthology series that aired from 1960-1962 on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing an mix of macabre horror tales and suspense thrillers....
     (NBC)


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    Occasional Wife is a half-hour United States Situation comedy that aired on NBC on September 13, 1966, and ran until May 9, 1967 . It was originally on NBC's Tuesday night schedule; in the Eastern Time Zone it aired from 8:30-9:00 p.m....


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    The Road West is an National Broadcasting Company Western television series starring Barry Sullivan as Benjamin "Ben" Pride, the patriarch of a pioneer family in Kansas....


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    The Legend of Jesse James

    The Legend of Jesse James is a 1980 country music concept album by various artists singing songs by English songwriter Paul Kennerley, based on the story of American Old West outlaw Jesse James....


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    The Big Valley

    The Big Valley is an American television series Western fiction which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1965 to 1969. It was created by A.I....


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    A Man Called Shenandoah

    A Man Called Shenandoah is a Western television program that aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1965 to 1966 by MGM Television....


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    Stoney Burke (TV series)

    Stoney Burke is a short-lived Western television program broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963....


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    The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)

    The Eleventh Hour is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey , Jack Ging , and Ralph Bellamy , which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on National Broadcasting Company from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964....


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    Dr. Kildare

    Dr. James Kildare is a fictional character, the primary character in a series of United States theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, a 1960s television series of the same name and a comic book based on the TV show....


  • The Virginian
    The Virginian (TV series)

    The Virginian is a Western -themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 in television to 1971 in television for a total of 249 episodes....


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    Sam Benedict

    Sam Benedict is a legal drama from MGM Television, starring a 47-year-old Edmond O'Brien, which ran on NBC during the 1962–1963 television season....


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    The Tall Man (TV series)

    The Tall Man is a Western television series that aired on NBC from 1960 to 1962. The series stars Barry Sullivan as Pat Garrett and newcomer Clu Gulager as Billy the Kid in 75 fictionalized half-hour episodes about the relationship between the famous outlaw and the frontier sheriff who eventually killed him....


  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured both mystery fiction and melodramas....


  • Cheyenne
    Cheyenne (TV series)

    Cheyenne is a Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on American Broadcasting Company from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long western, the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bro...


  • Frontier Circus
    Frontier Circus

    For the National Broadcasting Company program similarly named, see Frontier .'Frontier Circus' is a short-lived Western television program about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s....


  • King of Diamonds


  • 87th Precinct
    87th Precinct (TV series)

    87th Precinct is an hour-long grim and gritty police drama television series starring Robert Lansing , Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper , which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season....


  • The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a Western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on American Broadcasting Company-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Earp....


  • Adventures in Paradise
    Adventures in Paradise

    Adventures in Paradise is an United States television series which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1959 until 1962. It starred Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III which sailed the Pacific Ocean looking for passengers and adventure....


  • Bat Masterson
    Bat Masterson (TV series)

    Bat Masterson is an United States Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson....


  • Harrigan and Son


  • Death Valley Days
    Death Valley Days

    Death Valley Days is a long-running United States old-time radio and television Anthology series about true stories of the American Old West, particularly the Death Valley area....


  • Dante


  • The Outlaws
    The Outlaws (1960 TV series)

    The Outlaws is a 50-episode National Broadcasting Company Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory about Stillwater, Oklahoma....


  • The Untouchables
    The Untouchables (1959 TV series)

    The Untouchables is the name of a television series that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company. Based on the The Untouchables by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Bureau of Prohibition, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a special tea...


  • Laramie
    Laramie (TV series)

    Laramie is an United States Western television series aired on NBC from 1959 in television to 1963 in television. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman....


  • The Westerner
    The Westerner (TV series)

    The Westerner is a 1960 in television Four Star Television western series on NBC created by Sam Peckinpah. The series stars Brian Keith as Dave Blassingame and features John Dehner as semi-regular Burgundy Smith....


  • The Man From Blackhawk
    The Man From Blackhawk

    The Man From Blackhawk is a Western television series starring Robert Rockwell that aired on the American Broadcasting Company television network from October 9, 1959, until September 9, 1960....


  • Johnny Ringo
    Johnny Ringo (TV series)

    Johnny Ringo was a Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It was loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter Johnny Ringo, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and "Buckskin" Franklin Leslie....


  • The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone is an United States television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror fiction, often concluding with a macabre or Twist ending....


  • The Rebel
    The Rebel (TV series)

    The Rebel is an United States Western television series that ran originally on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961....


  • Wanted: Dead or Alive
    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Wanted: Dead or Alive is an United States Western television show starring Steve McQueen that ran for three seasons from 1958 to 1961. The series was a Spin-off of Trackdown , a western TV series featuring Robert Culp as a Texas Ranger....


  • Bronco
    Bronco (TV series)

    Bronco is a Western fiction television series on American Broadcasting Company from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom....


  • Lawman
    Lawman (tv series)

    Lawman is a western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and Peter Brown as Deputy Johnny McKay....


  • Overland Trail
    Overland Trail (TV series)

    For the history Overland Trail, see Overland Trail.Overland Trail is a 17-episode Western television series which aired on National Broadcasting Company from February 7 to June 6, 1960, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure ....


  • Bonanza
    Bonanza

    Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....


  • The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
    The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor

    The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor is an United States Police procedural Action Dramatic programming which ran on American Broadcasting Company during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season....


  • Law of the Plainsman
    Law of the Plainsman

    Law of The Plainsman is a Western television series starring Michael Ansara that aired on the National Broadcasting Company television network from October 1, 1959, until May 5, 1960....


  • Lassie


  • Man Without a Gun


  • Black Saddle
    Black Saddle

    Black Saddle is a Western television program that ran for forty-four episodes on National Broadcasting Company from January 10, 1959, to May 6, 1960....


  • Yancy Derringer
    Yancy Derringer

    Yancy Derringer is an United States Cult television#Cult_television Western television program that ran on CBS from 1958 to 1959, with Jock Mahoney in the title role....


  • Richard Diamond, Private Detective
    Richard Diamond, Private Detective

    Richard Diamond, Private Detective is a detective drama which was on radio from 1949 in radio to 1953 in radio and on television from 1957 in television to 1960 in television....


  • Perry Mason


  • Peter Gunn
    Peter Gunn

    Peter Gunn is an United States detective fiction television programme which aired on the National Broadcasting Company and later American Broadcasting Company television networks from 1958 to 1961....


  • Steve Canyon


  • Alcoa Theatre


  • The Rough Riders


  • The Rifleman
    The Rifleman

    The Rifleman is an United States Western television program that ran from on American Broadcasting Company, from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963, a production of Four Star Television....


  • Mike Hammer


  • Have Gun - Will Travel


  • Tales of Wells Fargo
    Tales of Wells Fargo

    Tales of Wells Fargo is an United States Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour....


  • Sea Hunt
    Sea Hunt

    Sea Hunt was an United States television adventure series from syndicator Ziv TV that ran from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in Television syndication for decades afterwards....


  • The Californians
    The Californians (TV series)

    The Californians is a 54-episode half-hour Western television series set in the San Francisco, California gold rush of the 1850s, which aired on National Broadcasting Company from September 24, 1957, to May 26, 1959....


  • Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....


  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater
    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theater, is a Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956-1961....


  • The Court of Last Resort


  • Panic!


  • The Phil Silvers Show
    The Phil Silvers Show

    The Phil Silvers Show was a comedy television series which ran on CBS from 1955 to 1959 for a total of 143 episodes . The series starred Phil Silvers as master sergeant Ernest G....


  • Inside Detective


  • Hallmark Hall of Fame


  • The Walter Winchell File


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