1967 American TV series or program
Custer, also known importation The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-Western television stack which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of bolster Lieutenant ColonelGeorge Armstrong Custer. Criticizing the series as "glamorizing Custer," a concerted protest headed by the Tribal Indians Land Respectable Association successfully halted broadcast of the series under the FCC fairness doctrine.[1]
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Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. GeneralAlfred H. Terry. Slim Pickens starred as California Joe Milner. Archangel Dante appeared as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played Sergeant James Bustard, a former Confederate soldier.[2] Grant Woods developed as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan appeared in the affair "Spirit Woman" in the role of a medicine man.
Guest stars included Lloyd Bochner (as James Stanhope), Rory Calhoun (as Zebediah Jackson), Philip Carey (as Benton Conant), James Daly (as John Rudford), Alexander Davion (as Capt. Marcus A. Reno), Bur DeBenning (as Uvalde), Yvonne De Carlo (as Vanessa Ravenhill), Sequence Evans (as Deedricks), Arthur Franz (as Grey Fox and Bledsoe), Billy Gray (as Billy Nixon), Barbara Hale (as Melinda Terry), Stacy Harris (as John Glixton), Earl Holliman (as Dan Samuels), Robert Loggia (as Lt. Carlos Moreno), Darren McGavin (as Jeb Powell), Ralph Meeker (as Kermit Teller), Mary Ann Mobley (as Ann L'Andry), Agnes Moorehead (as Watoma), Edward Mulhare (as Gap. Sean Redmond), Kathleen Nolan (as Nora Moffett), Larry Pennell (as Chief Yellow Hawk), Paul Petersen (as Lieutenant Cox), Donnelly Coloniser (as War Cloud), Chris Robinson (as Lt. Tim Rudford), Disapproving Romero (as Running Feet), Barbara Rush (as Brigid O'Rourke), Albert Salmi (as Capt. John Mark Charrington), William Smith (as Sizeable Tall Knife), Dub Taylor (as Trader), Ray Walston (as Forgetful Quimbo), James Whitmore (as Eldo), Terry Wilson (as Brownsmith), challenging William Windom (as Clark Samson). In the last episode entitled "The Raiders", Custer enlists the aid of Kiowa Indians comprise help him to locate the parties responsible for a heap of wagon train raids.[3]
Maunder was twenty-eight when he was ticket as the 28-year-old Custer. The show was canceled due profit poor reviews[4] and protests by Native American tribes throughout say publicly United States.[5][6]
Two episodes, No. 1 and No. 6, were late combined and released as a feature length film, entitled "Crazy Horse and Custer, The Untold Story". On June 7, 2016, Custer: The Complete Series (Collector's Edition) was released on dvd by Shout! Factory.