Custer (1967)
Custer (1967)
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Wayne Maunder
George Armstrong Custer

Peter Palmer

Michael Dante
Crazy Horse

Slim Pickens

Robert F. Simon
Alfred H. Terry

John Palmer

Alexander Davion

Grant Woods
Capt. Myles Keogh

David Weisbart
Writer

Leo Penn
Director

Lawrence Dobkin
Director

Norman Foster
Director

Herschel Daugherty
Director

László Benedek
Director

Alex March
Director

Christian Nyby
Director

Sam Wanamaker
Director

Shimon Wincelberg
Writer

Samuel A. Peeples
Writer

William Blinn
Writer

Richard Sale
Writer

Jack Turley
Writer

Rodolfo Acosta
Santana

Mary Ann Mobley
Ann Landry

James McCallion

Hank Patterson

Chris Robinson

Rory Calhoun

Albert Salmi

Yvonne De Carlo

James Daly

Pamelyn Ferdin

Philip Carey

James Craig

Edward Mulhare

Henry Beckman

Larry Pennell

Paul Petersen

Burr DeBenning

Barbara Rush

Earl Holliman

Darren McGavin

Jack Hogan

R.G. Armstrong

Pierre Jalbert

Rodd Redwing

James Whitmore

William Smith
Media.

Details.
Release DateSeptember 6, 1967
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes17
Running Time1h
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
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Wiki.
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. Criticizing the series as "glamorizing Custer," a concerted protest headed by the Tribal Indians Land Rights Association successfully halted broadcast of the series under the FCC fairness doctrine.
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