Young Pioneers' Christmas (1976)
December 17, 1976Release Date
Young Pioneers' Christmas (1976)
December 17, 1976Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Linda Purl
Molly Beaton
Roger Kern
David Beaton
Robert Hays
Dan Gray
Kay Kimler
Nettie Peters
Robert Donner
Mr. Peters
Britt Leach
Loftus
Arnold Soboloff
Yancy
Brendan Dillon
Doyle
Rand Bridges
Pike
Brian Melrose
Charlie Peters
Sherri Wagner
Flora Peters
Michael O'Herlihy
Director
Rose Wilder Lane
Writer
Robert Enrietto
Producer / First Assistant Director
Leonard A. Mazzola
Set Decoration
Ed Friendly
Producer
Jan Van Tamelen
Art Direction
Blanche Hanalis
Writer
Allan LaMastra
Editor
Eddie Foy III
Casting
Robert L. Morrison
Director of Photography
Laurence Rosenthal
Original Music Composer
Mike Moschella
Makeup Artist
Jan Van Uchelen
Hairstylist
William P. Owens
Unit Production Manager
William M. Bell
Construction Coordinator
Mike Miner
Property Master
Robert Pearson
Sound Editor
Donald F. Johnson
Sound
George Marc Gagnon
Costumer
Barbara Siebert
Costumer
Jack N. Young
Location Manager
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Young Pioneers' Christmas is a 1976 American made-for-television Western drama film which was broadcast by ABC in December 1976 as a Christmas special starring Linda Purl and Roger Kern. It was a sequel to the made-for-television movie Young Pioneers which aired earlier in March 1976 and was produced using the same creative team of Ed Friendly (producer), Blanche Hanalis (screenwriter), and Michael O'Herlihy (director). The movie is loosely based on the 1933 novel Let the Hurricane Roar by Rose Wilder Lane, which was reissued by Bantam Books in 1976 using the same title of Young Pioneers for the paperback book.
This was a second attempt to interest ABC in a TV series after Young Pioneers was not picked up by the network. There were hopes this pilot would succeed but it ranked only 37th in the Nielsen ratings. Although not initially picked up by ABC, it was revived as a short-lived television series, The Young Pioneers, which was broadcast in April 1978 on ABC and canceled after three episodes.