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Custer(TV show/series, 1967)

1h per episode | Genres: Western, Drama

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 17 episodes

CusterRating: 3.0/5 (with 2 votes)
Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-Western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Criticizing the series as "glamorizing Custer," a concerted protest headed by the Tribal Indians Land Rights Association successfully halted broadcast of the series under the FCC fairness doctrine. ()
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About Custer

Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. He was demoted after the war during force reductions to the rank of Captain, but was reinstated in 1866 as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Many of the soldiers in the regiment were derelicts, former Confederates, or even criminals. The series was cancelled before the script timeline would have reached the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, where all perished on June 25, 1876, in a Sioux Indian ambush, Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair and much of his methodology of fighting Indians. Slim Pickens starred as a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante appeared as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played Sergeant James Bustard, a former Confederate soldier. Grant Woods appeared as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's The Deputy, appeared in the episode "Spirit Woman" in the role of a medicine man.

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Custer Seasons and Episodes

09/06/1967Season 1 - 17 episodes
#1 | 09/06/1967Sabers in the Sun
An expedition into the Black Hills becomes deadly when a lieutenant who hates Colonel Custer disobeys orders, forcing the 7th to return to conduct a rescue. The young man's father, responsible for many flaming newspaper articles on the Colonel, follows, placing everyone in greater danger as they seek to avoid further hosilities with the Indians.
#2 | 10/06/1967Episode 2
#3 | 09/13/1967Accused
Custer and the 7th must help delivery cattle with a man that hold all cavalrymen in comtempt.
#4 | 09/20/1967Glory Rider
Custer is assigned to track down a Native American prisoner who escaped from Army custody.
#5 | 09/27/1967To the Death
Custer and his troops are assigned to take a secret shipment through hostile Native American territory.
#6 | 10/04/1967Massacre
When Custer and Crazy Horse are both captured by Blackfeet who are hostile to both whites and the Sioux, the two enemies must work together in order to escape and stay alive.
#7 | 10/11/1967War Lance and Saber
Lt. Moreno is a Kiowa in the cavalry who his men suspect him of being a spy. The men of command presume that Moreno is trying to thwart the efforts of making the Arapaho an Allie to the cavalry.
#8 | 10/18/1967Suspicion
After a period of leave, Custer takes a stagecoach back to Fort Hays that is menaced by both outlaws and hostile Native Americans.
#9 | 11/01/1967Breakout
Custer tries to halt the spread of smallpox amongst the Pawnee tribe.
#10 | 11/08/1967Desperate Mission
A renegade scout who hates Custer cuts a deal with Sioux chief Crazy Horse. In return for gold, he'll lead Custer into an ambush.
#11 | 11/15/1967Under Fire
A detachment of the 7th Cavalry ends up killing a peaceful Cheyenne hunting party. This event puts a Cheyenne chief and a female reporter after Custer's scalp.
#12 | 11/22/1967Death Hunt
Custer escorts a survey party through a settlement of former Confederates who aren't very happy to see a former Union foe in their midst.
#13 | 11/29/1967Blazing Arrows
Custer and two other officers match wits with a dangerous Native American warrior at a remote relay station.
#14 | 12/06/1967Dangerous Prey
Custer tries to protect a Sioux mystic woman from both white and Native American enemies.
#15 | 12/13/1967Spirit Woman
Custer is given the task of stopping a band of Irish fanatics who are plotting to invade Canada.
#16 | 12/20/1967The Gauntlet
Custer enlists the aid of some Kiowas to help him discover the parties responsible for a series of wagon train raids.
#17 | 12/28/1967Pursued
Custer goes in pursuit of a scout who escaped from Army custody after being convicted of theft and killed a trooper while making his bid for freedom.

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/06/1967
Last episode released on: 12/28/1967
Composer: Richard Markowitz

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