LANCER ... a Western television series, is the epic saga of a father with two half-brother sons.
Guest stars included Sam Elliot, Joe Don Baker, Martin Sheen, Angus Moorehead, Susan Strasberg, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Pernell Roberts, Sam Elliott, Bruce Dern, Ron Howard, Billy Mummy, Clint Howard, Barry Williams, Eve Plumb, Warren Oats, Cloris Leachman, George Macready, Scott Marlowe, Stefanie Powers, Frank McHugh and Dub Taylor.
Lancer lasted for fifty-one hour-long episodes shot in 3 strip 16 mm B & W and was colored by Deluxe. The program was rerun on CBS during the summer of 1971.
Plot Outline
Andrew Duggan plays Murdoch Lancer, the patriarch. James Stacy appears as gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer, the younger son. Wayne Maunder was cast as Scott Lancer, the educated older son. Paul Brinegar, formerly the cook Wishbone on CBS's Rawhide, also appeared as Jelly Hoskins, a series regular.
Production Company 20th Century Fox... Created by Samuel A Peeples
"-cre? What's that got to do with us?" "Nothing, Scott - I came over on a boat from Scotland. met your mother in Boston and came out here. It's just another episode where the writers didn't see the pilot..."
29:17 It never happened "If ever we are going to become a nation we're going to have to stop carrying guns" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha instead they became a gun crazy nation, how's that for compromise?
Loved to watch the original airings of Lancer & it still holds true today. They must have filmed this episode near an airport. You can hear a prop plane in the beginning & jet later on.
Really mind numbing that all these EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS that came here to NORTH AMERICA to ESCAPE (here it comes!!!) religious persecution and seek a better life are dipicted on all these WESTERN COWBOY SERIES as MURDUROUS***GUN SHOOTIN HAPPY*** LAND STEALING***VICIOUS GANG LEADING***WOMAN RAPING*** From 1855 tru 1899 it's ALLWAYS WHISKEY***GUNS***BANK ROBBERYS***CATTLE STEALING (rustling)***STEALING GOLD CLAIMS*** And scriptwriters in WESTERNS rarely show these immigrants looking for WORK in the NEWLY DEVELOPING COUNTRY that NEEDS BUILDERS********
@LANCER FAN==Thanks!!! On BONANZA then to LANCER we find veteran actor JAMES GREGORY as the SHERRIFF on this LANCER episode!!!! Also seen here are ROBERT DOYLE as the convict** and JOHN MILLFORD as cowboy insulting GREGORY for being elderly!!!!
59:09 The young, fetching female in summer attire showing plenty of skin is holding a color chart with several vertical strips representing different, key colors. That is a reference point to be used by the film lab as a guide for striking the 35 mm and 16 mm "air" and "back-up" prints for 20th Century Fox Television to deliver to CBS which of course insists in stringent quality control. Also vital for the lab striking dozens of dupe 16 mm prints to be sent to local stations who bought "Lancer" for airing after the network's cancellation of it in 1970. By fall 1966 all primetime network shows were filmed and aired in color. This full length "Lancer" pilot we're so fortunate to see was obviously a duped, less costly b&w print; perhaps used on the music scoring stage or one of the prints that made the rounds of U.S. military bases in South Vietnam where the American servicemen were desperate for filmed entertainment. The flesh tones of the model's skin are also key to calibrating precisely the 'perfect' print. This un-named, unknown model was no doubt enticing to the predominantly male editing and post-production professionals seeing her over and over on dozens of episodes of dozens of filmed programs. It's likely she may have had her own fan base. A vintage issue of American Cinematographer would be a starting point for ID'ing her. A catty remark would be: "With the exception of Susan O'Connell ('Warburton's Edge'), Melissa Murphy ('Blind Man's Bluff') and Donna Mills ('The Lion and the Lamb') she's better looking than nearly all of 'Lancer''s female guest stars." "Thank you, 'Lancer Fan.'"
Loved this series as a kid in 1968-70 & enjoy watching all of them on YT. This is one of my favorite episodes. How realistic it was when Andy shows up at the hotel "for all the fun" & Johnny grabs his ears & lets him know this isn't fun & shoves him in the hotel door. It actually made me jump a little! I bet Andy's ears were a bit sore after that scene.
Nice, to read your words Yes, a great episode. His smile while talking to Pony Alice is so wonderful, I love it so much!!! Unforgotten Johnny Lancer.... ❤
