Lancer (TV series)
| Lancer | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Western |
| Directed by | Robert Butler |
| Starring | James Stacy Wayne Maunder Andrew Duggan Elizabeth Baur |
| Theme music composer | Jerome Moross |
| Composer(s) | Arthur Morton (2.16) |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 51 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | 24 September 1968 – 19 May 1970 |
Lancer is a 1968-1970 Western television series on CBS, which starred Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.
Stacy appears as half-Mexican gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer. Duggan plays Murdoch Lancer, a less wholly admirable patriarch than Lorne Greene's Ben Cartwright of Bonanza. Wayne Maunder, formerly Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer on the short-lived ABC series Custer, was cast as Scott Lancer, the educated older son (though he is younger than Stacy) and a veteran of the Union Army, in contrast to Stacy's role of former gunslinger. Paul Brinegar, formerly the cook Wishbone on CBS's Rawhide, also appeared as Jelly Hoskins, a series regular.
Guest stars included Joe Don Baker, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Sam Elliott, Bruce Dern, Ron Howard, Cloris Leachman, George Macready, Scott Marlowe, Warren Oates, Stefanie Powers, and Dub Taylor. Frank McHugh appeared as Charlie Wingate in a 1969 episode entitled "The Fix-It Man", the handyman role that he had also played in the 1964-1965 season on the ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show.
Lancer lasted for fifty-one hour-long episodes shot in color. The program was rerun on CBS during the summer of 1971. The episode entitled "Zee" with Stefanie Powers earned scriptwriter Andy Lewis the Western Writers of America "Spur Award", the first ever designated for a television script.[1]
[edit] Cast
James Stacy as Johnny Madrid Lancer
Andrew Duggan as Murdoch Lancer
Wayne Maunder as Scott Lancer
Paul Brinegar as Jelly Hoskins
[edit] References
- ^ "Biography of Wayne Maunder". Geocities.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20091022080401/http://geocities.com/scott_land_queen/Bio.html. Retrieved January 10, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Lancer at the Internet Movie Database
