Custer(1967)
WesternDrama
First Air Date: 1967-09-06
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 6.4
Votes: 5
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 17
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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Season 1
Episodes: 17E01
Sabers in the Sun
Air Date: 1967-09-06
An expedition into the Black Hills becomes deadly when a lieutenant who hates Colonel Custer disobeys orders, forcing...
E02
Episode 2
Air Date: 1967-10-06
No episode overview available.
E03
Accused
Air Date: 1967-09-13
Custer and the 7th must help delivery cattle with a man that hold all cavalrymen in comtempt.
E04
Glory Rider
Air Date: 1967-09-20
Custer is assigned to track down a Native American prisoner who escaped from Army custody.
E05
To the Death
Air Date: 1967-09-27
Custer and his troops are assigned to take a secret shipment through hostile Native American territory.
E06
Massacre
Air Date: 1967-10-04
When Custer and Crazy Horse are both captured by Blackfeet who are hostile to both whites and the Sioux, the two enem...
E07
War Lance and Saber
Air Date: 1967-10-11
Lt. Moreno is a Kiowa in the cavalry who his men suspect him of being a spy. The men of command presume that Moreno ...
E08
Suspicion
Air Date: 1967-10-18
After a period of leave, Custer takes a stagecoach back to Fort Hays that is menaced by both outlaws and hostile Nati...
E09
Breakout
Air Date: 1967-11-01
Custer tries to halt the spread of smallpox amongst the Pawnee tribe.
E10
Desperate Mission
Air Date: 1967-11-08
A renegade scout who hates Custer cuts a deal with Sioux chief Crazy Horse. In return for gold, he'll lead Custer int...
E11
Under Fire
Air Date: 1967-11-15
A detachment of the 7th Cavalry ends up killing a peaceful Cheyenne hunting party. This event puts a Cheyenne chief a...
E12
Death Hunt
Air Date: 1967-11-22
Custer escorts a survey party through a settlement of former Confederates who aren't very happy to see a former Union...
E13
Blazing Arrows
Air Date: 1967-11-29
Custer and two other officers match wits with a dangerous Native American warrior at a remote relay station.
E14
Dangerous Prey
Air Date: 1967-12-06
Custer tries to protect a Sioux mystic woman from both white and Native American enemies.
E15
Spirit Woman
Air Date: 1967-12-13
Custer is given the task of stopping a band of Irish fanatics who are plotting to invade Canada.
E16
The Gauntlet
Air Date: 1967-12-20
Custer enlists the aid of some Kiowas to help him discover the parties responsible for a series of wagon train raids.
E17
Pursued
Air Date: 1967-12-28
Custer goes in pursuit of a scout who escaped from Army custody after being convicted of theft and killed a trooper w...
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