The Rousters
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| Genre | Action / Tongue-in-cheek humor |
| Written by | Terrence McDonnell |
| Directed by | Dennis Donnelly Joseph Pevney |
| Starring | Hoyt Axton Chad Everett Timothy Gibbs Mimi Rogers Maxine Stuart Jim Varney |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Editor(s) | John Elias |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Production company(s) | Stephen J. Cannell Productions |
| Distributor | NBC |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Original run | October 1, 1983 – July 21, 1984 |
The Rousters is a 1983 NBC television series about a group of modern-day bounty hunters who are descendants of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. Despite advertising claims that this series would "sink The Love Boat" in the ratings, it ran for only one season of 13 episodes.
[edit] Premise
Wyatt Earp III (Chad Everett) works as a bouncer for the traveling Sladetown Carnival, run by "Cactus Jack" Slade (Hoyt Axton). Wyatt doesn't care for his embarrassing name or the legacy it represents, but his shotgun-toting mother Amanda (Maxine Stuart) wants to carry on the "family tradition" of keeping law and order through bounty hunting.
Wyatt's brother Evan (Jim Varney) has a penchant for con artistry and bungled repair-work; this character is mostly comic relief. Slade's lion-taming daughter Ellen (Mimi Rogers) is dating Wyatt and tutoring his teenage son Michael (Timothy Gibbs).
[edit] Episode list
| № | Title | Air date | Code |
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| 1 | "The Marshal of Sladetown" | 1983-10-01 | 3000 |
| 2 | "The Carnival That Ate Sladetown" | 1983-10-15 | 3101 |
| 3 | "Finders Keepers" | 1983-10-22 | 3102 |
| 4 | "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Dollars" | 1983-10-29 | 3103 |
| 5 | "Eye Witness Blues" | 1983-12-20 | 3112 |
| 6 | "Everybody Loves a Clown" | 1983-12-27 | 3104 |
| 7 | "Never Trust a Crystal Ball" | 1984-06-09 | 3105 |
| 8 | "Two and a Half Days of the Condor" | 1984-06-16 | 3108 |
| 9 | "Slade vs. Slade" | 1984-06-23 | 3106 |
| 10 | "Snake Eyes" | 1984-06-30 | 3110 |
| 11 | "Cold Streak" | 1984-07-07 | 3107 |
| 12 | "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Twelve of Us" | 1984-07-14 | 3111 |
| 13 | "Wyatt Earp to the Rescue" | 1984-07-21 | 3109 |
