Custer

Sep 06, 1967 (en) Western, Drama [60] Min
  • First Air Date
    Sep 06, 1967
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Custer
  • Release
    Sep 06, 1967
  • en
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Season 1 ( 1967-09-06)

Sabers in the Sun

Episode: 1

Episode 2

Episode: 2

Accused

Episode: 3

Glory Rider

Episode: 4

To the Death

Episode: 5

Massacre

Episode: 6

War Lance and Saber

Episode: 7

Suspicion

Episode: 8

Breakout

Episode: 9

Desperate Mission

Episode: 10

Under Fire

Episode: 11

Death Hunt

Episode: 12

Blazing Arrows

Episode: 13

Dangerous Prey

Episode: 14

Spirit Woman

Episode: 15

The Gauntlet

Episode: 16

Pursued

Episode: 17
Sep 06, 1967 (en)
Western, Drama
[60] Min
  • First Air Date Sep 06, 1967
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 60%
Original Title Custer
en

Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer