Custer
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IMDB: 6.5
60 min
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. Released: 1967
Season 1
Episode 1:
Sabers in the Sun
Episode 2:
Accused
Episode 3:
Glory Rider
Episode 4:
To the Death
Episode 5:
Massacre
Episode 6:
War Lance and Saber
Episode 7:
Suspicion
Episode 8:
Breakout
Episode 9:
Desperate Mission
Episode 10:
Under Fire
Episode 11:
Death Hunt
Episode 12:
Blazing Arrows
Episode 13:
Dangerous Prey
Episode 14:
Spirit Woman
Episode 15:
The Gauntlet
Episode 16:
