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Laramie is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 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 ....
 television series aired on NBC from 1959
1959 in television

The year 1959 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1959.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1959-60 American network television schedule....
 to 1963
1963 in television

The year 1963 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1963....
. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith
John Smith (actor)

John Smith was an United States actor remembered in particular for two National Broadcasting Company Western television series. He was born in Los Angeles, California and died there as well of cirrhosis of the liver....
 as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller (actor)

Robert Fuller is an American actor, best known for starring roles on the popular 1960s Western series Laramie and Wagon Train as well as his work in the popular 1970s medical drama Emergency!....
 as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
 as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman. The story was about two brothers and a drifter who come together to run a stagecoach
Stagecoach

A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled closed coach for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand....
 stop for the Great Central Overland Mail. The series ran for four seasons and is considered by some to be one of the best family-oriented westerns of its time.

After the first season, Hoagy Carmichael decided not to return, tired of the demands of filming a weekly episode.






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Laramie is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 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 ....
 television series aired on NBC from 1959
1959 in television

The year 1959 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1959.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1959-60 American network television schedule....
 to 1963
1963 in television

The year 1963 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1963....
. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith
John Smith (actor)

John Smith was an United States actor remembered in particular for two National Broadcasting Company Western television series. He was born in Los Angeles, California and died there as well of cirrhosis of the liver....
 as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller (actor)

Robert Fuller is an American actor, best known for starring roles on the popular 1960s Western series Laramie and Wagon Train as well as his work in the popular 1970s medical drama Emergency!....
 as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
 as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman. The story was about two brothers and a drifter who come together to run a stagecoach
Stagecoach

A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled closed coach for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand....
 stop for the Great Central Overland Mail. The series ran for four seasons and is considered by some to be one of the best family-oriented westerns of its time.

After the first season, Hoagy Carmichael decided not to return, tired of the demands of filming a weekly episode. His character was written out with the explanation that he accompanied Andy to boarding school in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
, Missouri
Missouri

Missouri is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska....
. Andy, however, would appear in a couple of episodes that second season. To restore the chemistry of the original cast, as the third season began, Spring Byington
Spring Byington

Spring Byington was an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress, best remembered for working as a key MGM contract player....
 and Dennis Holmes joined the cast as Miss Daisy Cooper and Mike Williams.

When the series ended, Robert Fuller joined the cast of the NBC-turned-ABC western Wagon Train
Wagon train

A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. In the American Old West, individuals traveling across the plains in covered wagons banded together for mutual assistance....
, where he replaced Robert Horton
Robert Horton (actor)

Robert Horton is an United States television actor, who was most noted for the role of Flint McCullough in the TV series Wagon Train . When Horton quit that series, he was quickly replaced with near-lookalike Robert Fuller, whose series, Laramie had been cancelled by NBC after four years....
, who had left the role of scout
Scout

The term Scout originally referred to a soldier performing reconnaissance duties ? in English it is used in many other contexts ? including the following:...
 Flint McCullough.

Laramie guest stars included Claude Akins
Claude Akins

Claude Marion Akins was an American actor. He was born in Nelson, Georgia and grew up in Bedford, Indiana. He was a 1949 graduate of Northwestern University , where he studied theatre....
, John Anderson
John Anderson (actor)

John Anderson was an American actor and film director....
, Phyllis Avery, Joanna Barnes
Joanna Barnes

Joanna Barnes is an United States of America actress and writer.Barnes moved to Los Angeles, California, soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures....
, James Best
James Best

James Best is an United States actor best known for his role as bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard....
, Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine

Ermes Effron Borgnino , better known by his stage name Ernest Borgnine, is an United States Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning actor....
, Robert Bray
Robert Bray

Robert E. Bray was a film and television actor probably best remembered for his role as the forest ranger Corey Stuart in the long-running Columbia Broadcasting System series Lassie ....
, Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson was an United Statesn actor best known for "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape , The Evil That Men Do and the popular Death Wish series....
, Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan was an United States actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies situation comedys of the 1960s....
, Jean Byron
Jean Byron

Jean Byron was an United States film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show....
, Rod Cameron
Rod Cameron

Rod Cameron was a movie actor whose career extended from the 1930s to the 1970s. He appeared in Horror film, war, Action film and science fiction movies, but is best remembered for his many Western s....
, Pat Conway
Pat Conway

Patrick Douglas Conway, known as Pat Conway , was an United States actor best known for his role as young but tough Sheriff Clay Hollister on the American Broadcasting Company and then Television syndication Western television series Tombstone Territory ....
, Russ Conway
Russ Conway (actor)

Russ Conway was a versatile Canada-United States character actor who appeared on film and television between 1947 and 1975....
, Ben Cooper
Ben Cooper

Ben Cooper ) is a retired United States actor of film and television who won a Golden Boot Awards award in 2005 for his work in Western ....
, Jim Davis
Jim Davis (actor)

Marlin "Jim" Davis , was an American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing in the CBS prime-time soap Dallas , a role which he held up until his death in April 1981....
, Frank Dekova
Frank Dekova

Frank Dekova was an Italian-American character actor....
, Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea

Dapper Dan redirects here. For the Prohibition gangster, see Danny Hogan. For the fictional pomade, see O Brother Where Art Thou?Dan Duryea was an American actor of film, stage and television....
, Ross Elliott
Ross Elliott

Ross Elliott was an American television and film character actor. He began his acting career with Orson Welles in Mercury Theatre, where he performed in Welles' famed radio program "The War of the Worlds "....
, Jason Evers
Jason Evers

Jason Evers was an United States actor.Evers was born Herb Evers in New York City, New York. After quitting high school to join the United States Army, Evers was so inspired by stars like John Wayne that he decided to try acting....
, William Fawcett
William Fawcett (actor)

William "Bill" Fawcett was a character actor in Hollywood B-films and in television. His career extended from 1946 until the early 1970s. He is probably best remembered for his role as the cantankerous, rusty-voiced Pete Wilkey of the Broken Wheel Ranch on the National Broadcasting Company television series Fury , co-starring Peter Grave...
, James Gregory
James Gregory (actor)

James Gregory was an United States character actor noted for his deep, gravelly voice and playing brash roles such as Joseph McCarthy Senator John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate , the audacious General Ursus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and loudmouthed Inspector Luger in Barney Miller ....
, Kevin Hagen
Kevin Hagen

----Kevin Hagen was an United States actor.Born to professional ballroom dancers, Hagen was raised by his mother, grandmother, and aunts. He worked for the US State Department in West Germany , and spent a year in law school at UCLA after attending Oregon State University and the University of Southern California before deciding to try...
, Stacy Harris, Ron Harper
Ron Harper (actor)

Ronald Robert "Ron" Harper is an United States television and film actor....
, Ron Hayes
Ron Hayes

Ronald G. Hayes was an United States television actor who as an activist in the environmental movement, worked for the establishment of the first Earth Day, observed on April 22, 1970....
, Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson (actor)

Ben "Son" Johnson Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States film actor who was mainly cast in Western . He was also a rodeo cowboy, stunt performer, and rancher....
, Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson

Russell David Johnson , is an United States television and film actor best known as "The Professor " on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island....
, L.Q. Jones, DeForest Kelley
DeForest Kelley

Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his starring role as Dr. Leonard McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek: The Original Series and six of its subsequent movies, as well as an elderly Admiral Dr....
, John Larch
John Larch

John Larch was an United States film and television actor.Entering films in 1954, Larch usually appeared in westerns and action films, including the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew starring Dean Martin and Elke Sommer....
, John Lupton
John Lupton

John Rollin Lupton was an American film and television actor.Upon graduation from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lupton secured immediate stage work....
, Barton MacLane
Barton MacLane

Barton MacLane was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. Although he has appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, he was perhaps best known for his recurring role as General Martin Peterson on the 1960s television comedy series I Dream of Jeannie....
, John McIntire
John McIntire

For the fictional character, see Trapper John McIntyre. For the Scottish radiologist, see John Macintyre.John McIntire was an American character actor....
, Jock Mahoney
Jock Mahoney

Jock Mahoney was an United States actor and stuntman , who was of French, Irish and Cherokee descent. Born Jacques O'Mahoney, sometimes he was credited as Jack Mahoney, Jock O'Mahomey, Jack O'Mahoney or Jock O'Mahoney....
, Denny Scott Miller
Denny Miller

Denny Scott Miller is an United States actor, perhaps best known for his guest-starring roles on Gilligan's Island and as Tarzan in the late 1950s....
, Ed Nelson
Ed Nelson

Edwin Stafford Nelson is an American actor.Nelson has appeared in numerous television shows, more than fifty motion pictures, and hundreds of stage productions....
, Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor....
, Gregg Palmer
Gregg Palmer

Gregg Palmer, originally Palmer Lee , is a retired United States actor, known primarily for his prolific work in television Western . He appeared from 1960-1975 in varying roles in twenty episodes of Columbia Broadcasting System's Gunsmoke with James Arness, thirteen segments of the Television syndication Death Valley Days, nine...
, Dennis Patrick
Dennis Patrick

Dennis Patrick was a well respected United States character actor best known for his works in television shows like Dark Shadows, Somerset, and Dallas and movies like Joe ....
, Denver Pyle
Denver Pyle

Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor....
, Gilman Rankin
Gilman Rankin

Gilman W. Rankin was a Massachusetts-born actor who appeared primarily in television Western between 1956 and 1975. Between 1957 and 1959, he had a supporting role as Deputy Charlie Riggs in seven episodes of the American Broadcasting Company and then Television syndication television series, Tombstone Territory, with Pat Conway, Richard...
, Herbert Rudley
Herbert Rudley

Herbert Rudley, , was a prolific character actor who appeared on stage, in films and on television.Rudley was born in 1910 in Philadelphia, and attended Temple University....
, Bing Russell
Bing Russell

Bing Russell was an United States actor, and was the father of Golden Globe-nominated actor Kurt Russell....
, Jacqueline Scott
Jacqueline Scott

Jacqueline Scott is an American actress who has appeared in several films and television programs as well as guest starring in over one hundred television shows....
, Olan Soule
Olan Soule

Olan Soule was an American character actor with hundreds of credits in films, radio, commercials, television and animation....
, Fay Spain
Fay Spain

Fay Spain was an American actress in motion pictures and television. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona....
, Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton is an United States actor of film and television....
, Karl Swenson
Karl Swenson

Karl Swenson was an United States theatre radio, film, and television actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Swenson made several appearances on Broadway in the 1930s and 40s, including the title role in Arthur Miller's first production, The Man Who Had All the Luck....
, Gloria Talbott
Gloria Talbott

Gloria Talbott was an United States film and television actress....
, Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef

Lee Van Cleef was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western movie and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his casting as a villain in scores of films, though in later years he was often a film's protagonist, such as with his co-lead role as a bounty hunter in For a Few Dollars More....
, Gary Vinson
Gary Vinson

Gary Vinson was an United States actor who appeared in significant roles in three television series of the 1960s: The Roaring Twenties , McHale's Navy, and Pistols 'n' Petticoats....
, Adam West
Adam West

Adam West is an United States actor who played the role of Batman on the 1960s TV series Batman , which was also adapted to a Batman . He is currently known for his voice work on animated series such as Fairly Oddparents and Family Guy....
, Robert J. Wilke
Robert J. Wilke

Robert J. Wilke was a prolific American film actor noted primarily for his villainous roles, mainly in western .Wilke started as a stuntman in the 1930s and his first appearance on screen was in San Francisco ....
, and Will Wright
Will Wright (actor)

Will Wright was an United States character actor frequently cast in curmudgeonly roles. He was sometimes credited as Will J. Wright. He portrayed department store owner and grasping landlord Ben Weaver in several episodes of Columbia Broadcasting System's The Andy Griffith Show and was the voice of Friend Owl in Walt Disney's anima...
.

Trivia

On January 1, 1962, a new version of the NBC peacock "living color" logo was introduced before that night's Laramie broadcast, and would be used before every color show on the network until 1970. Because of this, it is sometimes referred to as the "Laramie peacock".

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