Custer
Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a television set which ran on ABC from September 6 together with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Throughout the American Civil War, Custer had climbed to the rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. He was demoted after the war to the status of Captain during force reductions, however, was reinstated as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry in 1866. Many of the soldiers at the regiment were former Confederates derelicts, or offenders. The series was cancelled before the script deadline would have attained the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, in which all expired at a Sioux Indian ambush, on June 25, 1876,
Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair along with far of his methodology of fighting Indians. Slim Pickens surfaced as a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante emerged as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played with a Confederate soldier, Sergeant James Bustard. Grant Woods appeared as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's The Deputy, appeared from the episode"Spirit Woman" at the role of a medicine man.
Released: 1967-09-06