Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 8 seasons · 284 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
- historical
- wagon train
- post civil war
- 19th century
- american history
- classic western
The bill
- Frank McGrath
- Terry Wilson
- Robert Fuller
- Jay North
- Peter Falk
- Harlan Warde
- Harry Swoger
- Tim Graham
- Arnold Roberts
- Cap Somers
- Mike Steen
- Directed
- Virgil W. Vogel, Richard Bartlett, Jerry Hopper, R.G. Springsteen, Allen H. Miner, Herschel Daugherty & 7 more
- Written
- David Swift, Robert Libott, Richard Maibaum, Leo Townsend, Gene L. Coon, Thomas Thompson & 14 more
Production
- Network & studio
- NBC, ABC, Universal Television, Revue Studios
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