Cowboy in Africa is an ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 television series produced in 1967-1968 by Ivan Tors

Ivan Tors

Ivan Tors was a Hungarian playwright, film director, screenwriter, and film and television producer with an emphasis on non-violent but exciting science fiction, underwater filmed television and films, and films about animals...

 and starring Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman....

. A 1966 television pilot

Television pilot

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 turned into a movie and released to cinemas starring Hugh O'Brian

Hugh O'Brian

Hugh O'Brian is an American actor, known for his starring role in the ABC television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp .-Early years and career:...

 as Jim Sinclair was called Africa - Texas Style.

Plot

Jim Sinclair (Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman....

) is hired by Commander Hayes (Ronald Howard

Ronald Howard (British actor)

Ronald Howard was an English actor and writer best known in the U.S. for starring in a weekly Sherlock Holmes television series in 1954. He was the son of actor Leslie Howard.- Life and work :...

) to introduce modern methods to his game ranch in Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

. He brings his helper and best friend, a Navajo Indian named John Henry. Together, they work at roping wildlife and building up a herd on the ranch. During the first episode, a little ten year old boy named Samson watches from afar and decides Jim would make a perfect father. Samson runs for a day and a half to the Hayes/Sinclair ranch and declares to Jim, the world's champion cowboy, that Jim would be his father. By the end of the first episode the boy and cowboy have adopted each other. Samson, John Henry, and Jim Sinclair become a family.

Episodes

1. The New World
2. Kifaru! Kifaru!
3. Incident at Derati Wells
4. What's an Elephant Mother to Do?
5. Search for Survival
6. Stone Age Safari
7. The Adopted One
8. Fang and Claw
9. The Time of the Predator
10. Lake Sinclair
11. Tomorrow the Wind
12. Little Boy Lost
13. The Man Who Has Everything
14. To Build a Beginning
15. The Hesitant Hero
16. African Rodeo, Part 1
17. African Rodeo, Part 2
18. First to Capture
19. The Red Hand of Michael O'Neill
20. The Quiet Death
21. A Man of Value
22. Search and Destroy
23. Work of Art
24. John Henry's Eden
25. The Lions
26. The Kasubi Death