- Black Saddle
"Black Saddle" is a Western TV series that ran on
NBC fromJanuary 10 ,1959 , toMay 6 ,1960 and starsPeter Breck as Clay Culhane, a former gunfighter who turned into alawyer after his brothers were killed in a shootout. The series was produced byDick Powell 'sFour Star Television , and the original pilot was an episode of "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater ", withChris Alcaide playing Culhane. For syndicated reruns, it was combined with three other short-lived Western series from the same company, "Law of the Plainsman " starringMichael Ansara , "Johnny Ringo" starringDon Durant , and the critically acclaimed creation ofSam Peckinpah , "The Westerner" starringBrian Keith , under the umbrella title "The Westerners" with new hosting sequences byKeenan Wynn .Breck, a veteran
Hollywood film and TV actor, later went on to greater fame in another Four Star-produced western series, ABC'sThe Big Valley starringBarbara Stanwyck .= External links =
* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0052449/ Black Saddle] at theInternet Movie Database
* [http://www.tvaddicts.tv/movie/western/Black_Saddle.html Black Saddle] atTVAddicts
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