The Rough Riders (TV series)
Encyclopedia
The Rough Riders is an American
Western
television series
set in the West after the American Civil War
. It aired on ABC
for the 1958-1959 television season. It was produced by Ziv Television
, the production company responsible for such hit shows as Bat Masterson
, Tombstone Territory
, Sea Hunt
, and Highway Patrol
.
and one Confederate
who traveled together across the West, fighting trouble and bad guys. The series starred Kent Taylor
as ex-Union Captain Jim Flagg, Jan Merlin
as former Confederate Lieutenant Colin Kirby, and Peter Whitney
as former Union Sergeant Buck Sinclair.
Among series guest stars were Lon Chaney, Jr.
, James Coburn
, Mike Connors
, William Conrad
, Russ Conway
, Walter Coy
, Mimi Gibson
, Ed Hinton
, Jack Hogan
, DeForest Kelley
, George Macready
, Tyler McVey
, Joyce Meadows
, Leonard Nimoy
, Judson Pratt
, Gary Vinson
, John Anderson
, and Barbara Woodell. The Rough Riders produced thirty-nine episodes.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
television series
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
set in the West after the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
. It aired on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
for the 1958-1959 television season. It was produced by Ziv Television
Ziv Television Programs
Ziv Television Programs, Inc. was an American television syndication and production company, producer of popular syndicated TV programs in the 1950s.- History :...
, the production company responsible for such hit shows as Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson (TV series)
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black and white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961...
, Tombstone Territory
Tombstone Territory
Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959...
, Sea Hunt
Sea Hunt
Sea Hunt was an American adventure television series that was aired in syndication by Ziv Television Programs from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced...
, and Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol (TV series)
Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced 1955-1959.-Overview:Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state...
.
Synopsis
The program is about three ex-soldiers, two UnionUnion (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty free states and five border slave states. It was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the...
and one Confederate
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
who traveled together across the West, fighting trouble and bad guys. The series starred Kent Taylor
Kent Taylor
Kent Taylor was an American actor.Born Louis William Weiss in Nashua, Iowa, Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases, including I'm No Angel , Death Takes a Holiday , Payment on Demand ,...
as ex-Union Captain Jim Flagg, Jan Merlin
Jan Merlin
Jan Merlin is an American character actor, screen writer, and author.- Career :Born and raised in New York USA, during the Second World War he enlisted in the US Navy to serve on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, accumulating ten battle stars before entering Japan's...
as former Confederate Lieutenant Colin Kirby, and Peter Whitney
Peter Whitney
Peter Whitney, was an American actor in film and television. Born as Peter King Engle in Long Branch, New Jersey, Whitney's corpulent, heavy build qualified him to play villains in many Hollywood movies in the 1940s and 1950s.From the late 1950s, he was more prolific playing character roles in...
as former Union Sergeant Buck Sinclair.
Among series guest stars were Lon Chaney, Jr.
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Lon Chaney, Jr. , born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney...
, James Coburn
James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.A capable,...
, Mike Connors
Mike Connors
Mike Connors is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.-Early life:Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in...
, William Conrad
William Conrad
William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television....
, Russ Conway
Russ Conway (actor)
Russ Conway was a Canadian-American character actor who appeared on film and television between 1947 and 1975.-Early years:...
, Walter Coy
Walter Coy
Walter Darwin Coy was an American stage, radio, film, and, principally, television actor, originally from Great Falls, Montana. He was best known for narrating the NBC western anthology series, Frontier, which aired early Sunday evenings in the 1955-1956 season.-Career:Coy performed on Broadway...
, Mimi Gibson
Mimi Gibson
Mimi Gibson is a former child actress. After the early death of her father, her mother took her and her sister to Los Angeles. At only 18 months, she was a popular calendar model, posing with cute animals. By age two she was appearing in movies. During the 1950s and early 1960s she would appear...
, Ed Hinton
Ed Hinton (actor)
Edgar Latimer Hinton, Jr., known as Ed Hinton and sometimes as Edward Hinton , was an American actor known particularly for guest-starring roles on television westerns...
, Jack Hogan
Jack Hogan
Jack Hogan is an American actor, born November 25, 1929 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was born Richard Roland Benson, Jr. He is most notable for the role of PFC William G...
, DeForest Kelley
DeForest Kelley
Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.-Early life:...
, George Macready
George Macready
George Peabody Macready, Jr. , was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.-Background:...
, Tyler McVey
Tyler McVey
Tyler McVey was an American character actor.-Early life and career:McVey was born in Bay City on Saginaw Bay in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. His first screen role, uncredited, came at the age of 39 in 1951, when he portrayed Brady in the The Day the Earth Stood Still...
, Joyce Meadows
Joyce Meadows
Joyce Meadows is a Canadian-American actress. From 1960-1961, she co-starred as Stacy in the syndicated western series Two Faces West with Charles Bateman and Francis De Sales...
, Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series , multiple films, television and video game sequels....
, Judson Pratt
Judson Pratt
Judson Pratt was an American actor whose longest continuing work was in thirteen episodes of ABC's Walt Disney Presents and NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. A native of Hingham in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Pratt appeared in numerous television westerns and drama series from...
, Gary Vinson
Gary Vinson
Gary Vinson was an American actor who appeared in significant roles in three television series of the 1960s: The Roaring 20s, McHale's Navy, and Pistols 'n' Petticoats.-Early life and career:...
, John Anderson
John Anderson (actor)
-Biography:Born in Clayton, John Anderson grew up in Quincy and Adams County, Illinois.Prior to a prolific acting career, Anderson served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II where he met artist Orazio Fumagalli who became one of his best lifelong friends.He was known for several...
, and Barbara Woodell. The Rough Riders produced thirty-nine episodes.
Episodes
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | "The Murderous Sutton Gang" | October 2, 1958 |
| 1-2 | "Breakout" | October 9, 1958 |
| 1-3 | "The Maccabites" | October 16, 1958 |
| 1-4 | "The Duelists" | October 23, 1958 |
| 1-5 | "The Imposters" | October 30, 1958 |
| 1-6 | "The Governor" | November 6, 1958 |
| 1-7 | "Blood Feud" | November 13, 1958 |
| 1-8 | "The Nightbinders" | November 20, 1958 |
| 1-9 | "Shadow of the Past" | November 27, 1958 |
| 1-10 | "Killers at Chocktaw Valley" | December 4, 1958 |
| 1-11 | "The Counterfeiters" | December 11, 1958 |
| 1-12 | "Strand of Wire" | December 18, 1958 |
| 1-13 | "The Electioners" | January 1, 1959 |
| 1-14 | "The Scavengers" | January 8, 1959 |
| 1-15 | "An Eye For an Eye" | January 15, 1959 |
| 1-16 | "Double Cross" | January 22, 1959 |
| 1-17 | "Wilderness Trace" | January 29, 1959 |
| 1-18 | "The Plot to Assassinate President Johnson" | February 5, 1959 |
| 1-19 | "The End of Nowhere" | February 12, 1959 |
| 1-20 | "A Matter of Instinct" | February 19, 1959 |
| 1-21 | "Witness Against the Judge" | February 26, 1959 |
| 1-22 | "End of Track" | March 5, 1959 |
| 1-23 | "Death Sentence" | March 12, 1959 |
| 1-24 | "The Double Dealers" | March 19, 1959 |
| 1-25 | "Lesson in Violence" | March 26, 1959 |
| 1-26 | "The Promise" | April 2, 1959 |
| 1-27 | "The Injured" | April 9, 1959 |
| 1-28 | "Paradise Gap" | April 16, 1959 |
| 1-29 | "Hired Gun" | April 23, 1959 |
| 1-30 | "Gunpoint Persuasion" | April 30, 1959 |
| 1-31 | "The Rifle" | May 7, 1959 |
| 1-32 | "Forty-Five Calibre Law" | May 14, 1959 |
| 1-33 | "Deadfall" | May 21, 1959 |
| 1-34 | "The Highgraders" | May 28, 1959 |
| 1-35 | "The Wagon Raiders" | June 4, 1959 |
| 1-36 | "Ransom of Rita Renee" | June 11, 1959 |
| 1-37 | "Reluctant Hostage" | June 18, 1959 |
| 1-38 | "The Holdout" | June 25, 1959 |
| 1-39 | "The Last Rebel" | July 16, 1959 |