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Law of The Plainsman is a 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 starring Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara

Michael Ansara is a stage, screen and voice actor....
 that aired on the NBC television network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
 from October 1, 1959, until May 5, 1960. The character of Native American
Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
 U.S. Marshal
Marshal

Marshal is a word used in several official titles of various branches of society. The word derives from Old High German marah "horse" and schalh "servant", and originally meant "stable keeper"....
 Sam Buckhart was introduced in two episodes ("The Indian" and "The Raid") of the popular ABC Western television series 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....
 starring Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors was an United States actor and a professional basketball and baseball player, best known for his starring role in the 1950's American Broadcasting Company hit western series The Rifleman....
 as Lucas McCain
Lucas McCain

Lucas McCain is the rancher and widowed father with a penchant for using his Winchester firearm -- as a last resort -- in the western television series, The Rifleman, which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1958-1963....
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Law of The Plainsman is distinctive in that it was one of the few television programs that featured a Native American as the lead character.






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Law of The Plainsman is a 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 starring Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara

Michael Ansara is a stage, screen and voice actor....
 that aired on the NBC television network
Television network

A television network is a distribution wiktionary:Network for television content whereby a central operation provides television program for many television stations....
 from October 1, 1959, until May 5, 1960. The character of Native American
Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
 U.S. Marshal
Marshal

Marshal is a word used in several official titles of various branches of society. The word derives from Old High German marah "horse" and schalh "servant", and originally meant "stable keeper"....
 Sam Buckhart was introduced in two episodes ("The Indian" and "The Raid") of the popular ABC Western television series 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....
 starring Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors was an United States actor and a professional basketball and baseball player, best known for his starring role in the 1950's American Broadcasting Company hit western series The Rifleman....
 as Lucas McCain
Lucas McCain

Lucas McCain is the rancher and widowed father with a penchant for using his Winchester firearm -- as a last resort -- in the western television series, The Rifleman, which ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1958-1963....
.

Law of The Plainsman is distinctive in that it was one of the few television programs that featured a Native American as the lead character. Ansara had earlier appeared in the series Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow (TV series)

Broken Arrow is a Western television series which ran on American Broadcasting Company in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 PM Eastern time....
, having portrayed the Apache
Apache

Apache is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States. These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan languages language, and are related linguistically to the languages of Athabaskan speakers of Alaska and western Canada....
 chief, Cochise
Cochise

Cochise was a chiefdom of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache and the leader of an uprising that began in 1861. Cochise County, Arizona is named after him....
. Ansara, however, was not Native American but of Syrian
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
 descent.

Ansara played Sam Buckhart, an Apache Indian who saved the life of a U.S. Cavalry
Cavalry

The Cavalry is the second oldest of the Combat Arms, and as soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback in combat, it represents the mobility and offensive power of the armed forces....
 officer after an Indian ambush. When the officer died, he left Sam money that was used for an education at private schools and Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. After school, he returned to New Mexico where he became a Deputy Marshal working for Marshal Andy Morrison, played by Dayton Lummis, and living in a boarding house run by Martha Commager, played by Nora Marlowe. The only other continuing cast member was 8-year old Tess Logan, played by Gina Gillespie
Gina Gillespie

Gina Gillespie is a former United States actress who had a brief but extensive career in television and film during her childhood and youth....
, who was an orphan who had been rescued by Buckhart. Robert Harland
Robert Harland

Robert "Bob" Harland is or was an United States actor whose principal work was done on television in the late 1950s and 1960s. He appeared as a regular in the role of undercover agent Jack Flood on the American Broadcasting Company-Four Star Television crime drama Target: The Corruptors! with Stephen McNally , who portrayed the newspap...
 starred in seven episodes as Deputy Billy Lordan. Among the guest stars was Scott Marlowe
Scott Marlowe

Scott Gregory Marlowe was a versatile United States actor of film, television, and stage, who was born and died in Los Angeles, California, California....
, who appeared as Clancy Jones in the episode "The Show-Off". Character actor
Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
 Robert F. Simon
Robert F. Simon

Robert F. Simon was a prolific United States character actor, often portraying military or authority figure roles. Though his face was recognized by audiences, he was mostly unknown by name....
 appeared as Frank Keller in the episode "The Gibbet". The program was produced by Four Star Television
Four Star Television

Four Star Television, also called Four Star Films, Four Star Productions, and Four Star International, was an American television production company which operated from 1952 to 1989....
 and was filmed at CBS Studio Center
CBS Studio Center

CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a triangular piece of land, with the Los Angeles River bisecting the site....
.

The show only lasted one season. For syndicated reruns it was grouped with three other short-lived Western series from the same company, 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....
 starring Peter Breck
Peter Breck

Peter Breck is an United States actor who has played roles on television and in film....
, 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....
 starring Don Durant
Don Durant

Don Durant was an United States actor and singer, best known for his role as the gunslinger-turned- sheriff in the Columbia Broadcasting System Western series Johnny Ringo , which ran on Thursdays from October 1, 1959 - June 30, 1960....
 and Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an United States film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch....
's critically acclaimed creation, 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....
 starring Brian Keith
Brian Keith

Brian Keith was an United States stage, film and television actor....
, under the umbrella title The Westerners, with new introductions and wrap-ups by Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn

Keenan Wynn was an United States character actor and member of a well-known show business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor....
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