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TV series 1967 1h 1 season

Custer

DramaWestern
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Overview

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.

Cast

Seasons and episodes

1 season17 episodes

Season 1

196717 episodes

  1. E1 Sabers in the Sun

    1h

    An expedition into the Black Hills becomes deadly when a lieutenant who hates Colonel Custer disobeys orders, forcing the 7th to return to conduct a rescue. The young man's father, responsible for many flaming newspaper articles on the Colonel, follows, placing everyone in greater danger as they seek to avoid further hosilities with the Indians.

  2. Episode 2

    1h

  3. E3 Accused

    1h

    Custer and the 7th must help delivery cattle with a man that hold all cavalrymen in comtempt.

  4. E4 Glory Rider

    1h

    Custer is assigned to track down a Native American prisoner who escaped from Army custody.

  5. E5 To the Death

    1h

    Custer and his troops are assigned to take a secret shipment through hostile Native American territory.

  6. E6 Massacre

    1h

    When Custer and Crazy Horse are both captured by Blackfeet who are hostile to both whites and the Sioux, the two enemies must work together in order to escape and stay alive.

  7. E7 War Lance and Saber

    1h

    Lt. Moreno is a Kiowa in the cavalry who his men suspect him of being a spy. The men of command presume that Moreno is trying to thwart the efforts of making the Arapaho an Allie to the cavalry.

  8. E8 Suspicion

    1h

    After a period of leave, Custer takes a stagecoach back to Fort Hays that is menaced by both outlaws and hostile Native Americans.

  9. E9 Breakout

    1h

    Custer tries to halt the spread of smallpox amongst the Pawnee tribe.

  10. E10 Desperate Mission

    1h

    A renegade scout who hates Custer cuts a deal with Sioux chief Crazy Horse. In return for gold, he'll lead Custer into an ambush.

  11. E11 Under Fire

    1h

    A detachment of the 7th Cavalry ends up killing a peaceful Cheyenne hunting party. This event puts a Cheyenne chief and a female reporter after Custer's scalp.

  12. E12 Death Hunt

    1h

    Custer escorts a survey party through a settlement of former Confederates who aren't very happy to see a former Union foe in their midst.

  13. E13 Blazing Arrows

    1h

    Custer and two other officers match wits with a dangerous Native American warrior at a remote relay station.

  14. E14 Dangerous Prey

    1h

    Custer tries to protect a Sioux mystic woman from both white and Native American enemies.

  15. E15 Spirit Woman

    1h

    Custer is given the task of stopping a band of Irish fanatics who are plotting to invade Canada.

  16. E16 The Gauntlet

    1h

    Custer enlists the aid of some Kiowas to help him discover the parties responsible for a series of wagon train raids.

  17. E17 Pursued

    1h

    Custer goes in pursuit of a scout who escaped from Army custody after being convicted of theft and killed a trooper while making his bid for freedom.

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