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Western TV Shows filmed
in Apache Junction,
AZ
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Listed below are some of
the many legendary TV shows that were filmed in and around
the Superstition Mountains.
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Have Gun, Will Travel
/ CBS TV - 30 Minutes / 1957-1963
©1998-2007
Photos &
Research:
Sunset Route
Limited & IMDB
Plot
Summary: Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West
Point graduate who, after the Civil War, settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton were
he awaited responses to his business card: over the picture of a chess knight "Have
Gun, Will Travel ... Wire Paladin, San Francisco."
Produced: Frank
Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, Julian Claman
Recurring
Cast: Richard Boone, Hank Patterson,
Kam Tong, Robert Carricart |
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
/ CBS TV - 30 Minutes / 1958-1961
©1998-2007
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Research:
Sunset Route
Limited & IMDB
Plot
Summary: Josh Randall (Steve McQueen)
was a man of few words. A bounty hunter by trade, he tracked his prey all over the West.
Randall carried an 1892 44/40 center fire Winchester carbine that he called "Mare's
Laig." It handled like a revolver by had the punch of a rifle.
The show made a star of Steve McQueen, who unlike many Western stars,
would go on to a memorable film career.
Produced
by: George Blair, Thomas Carr, Don McDougall
Recurring
Cast: Steve McQueen, Wright King |
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Dundee and the Culhane
/ CBS TV - 60 Minutes / 1967
©1998-2007
Photos &
Research:
Sunset Route
Limited & IMDB
NOTE: The first two episodes, "Turn the Other Cheek Brief" and "Vasquez Brief"
were filmed entirely at Apacheland with an all star cast.
Plot Summary: This series was about a British lawyer named Dundee roaming
the Wild West with a feisty young American lawyer named Culhane played by
Sean Garrison. The pilot episode was promising, but network executives were
disappointed over scripts which followed, so it was cancelled midseason.
Directed
by: Sam Wanamaker, Ida Lupino, Leo Penn
Cast
(1st Episode): John Mills, Sean
Garrison, Warren Oates, Carroll O'Conner, John Drew Barrymore, Charles
Bronson, Dabney Coleman, John Pickard. |
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Death Valley Days
/ Syndicated TV - 30 Minutes / 1952-1975
©1998-2007
Photos &
Research:
Sunset Route
Limited & IMDB
Plot Summary: This anthology series ran
for many years, presenting stories of the Old West, often filmed right in Death Valley.
Perhaps it is best known for two things, the host (Ronald Reagan) who became President of
the United States. The opening bugle call, the 20-mule team hauling the borax wagons out
of the desert, The Old Ranger introducing the story and Rosemary DeCamp doing the
commercials could only mean one thing, another episode of "Death Valley Days"
was on the air.
Produced by: Flying A
Productions
Recurring Cast: Stanley Andrews
1952-65, Ronald Reagan 1965-1966, Robert Taylor 1966-1968, Dale Robertson 1968-1972, John
Payne 1972-1975, Merle Haggard 1975 |
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Stagecoach West
/ ABC TV - 60 Minutes / 1960-1961
©1998-2007
Photos &
Research:
Sunset Route
Limited & IMDBPlot Summary: Luke Perry and Simon Kane
run a stagecoach line in the Old West, where they come across a wide variety of killers,
robbers and ladies in distress. They are accompanied by Simon's young son David. Directed
by: Dom McDougall
Cast:
Wayne Rogers, Robert Bray, Richard Eyer, James Burke,
John Litel, Olan Soule, Richard Devon |
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Zane Grey Theater
/ CBS TV - 30 Minutes / 1956-1961
©1998-2007
Photos &
Research:
Sunset Route
Limited & IMDB Plot
Summary: Western anthology series hosted by Dick Powell featuring
adaptations of the works of famed American writer Zane Grey (1875-1939) and other western
authors. TRIVIA NOTE: A museum dedicated to Zane Grey is located in the town of
Zanesville, Ohio.
Directed
by: Sam Pekinpah, Arnold Laven, Budd Boetticher, John
English, James Sheldon, Ted Post, Harry Keller, Felix E. Feist, Robert Florey, Bernard
Girard, Harold D. Schuster
Cast:
Dick Powell, Barbara Stanwyck, Carl Benton Reid, John
Dehner, Lloyd Bridges, Paul Richards, Walter Sande |
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