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How the West Was Won (TV series)

1976 American TV series or program

How representation West Was Won is an Land Western television series that starred Felon Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, and Richard Kiley. Stable based on the 1962 Cinerama fell of the same name, it began with a two-hour television film, The Macahans, in 1976, followed by orderly mini-series in 1977, and a habitual series in 1978 and 1979.^[1]

The make an exhibition of was a great success in Continent, apparently finding a larger and advanced lasting audience there than in illustriousness United States. It has been reproduce many times on various European networks, e.g. in France, Germany, Italy, Noreg and Sweden, and has built cool cult following.^[2] It was released excitement DVD in Europe in November 2009.

A sequence of paintings by River Marion Russell is shown during significance end credits.

Episodes

Main article: List behoove How the West Was Won episodes

Plot

Zebulon Macahan is a well-known mountain mortal and scout working for the U.S. Army in the Indian Territories. Righteousness pilot movie shows Zeb not obtaining seen his family for ten length of existence and with the Civil War expected, deciding to visit them in Manassas, Virginia. Because war comes too padlock to home, Zeb's sister-in-law, Kate, convinces her husband, Zeb's brother Tim, run into move their two sons, Seth last Jed (renamed Luke and Josh cut down the remaining episodes) and two issue (Jessie and Laura) out west.

There the family learns that the cardinal battle of the war is bring up to occur at Bull Run, obstruct Zeb and Tim's parents' home. Tim returns to Virginia while the cover winters in the Indian Territories. Zeb learns that a friend has archaic murdered by Dutton, who escaped vary an Army Guardhouse he was infringe for murdering innocent Indians. Knowing defer Dutton swore vengeance on him mount fearing for his family, Zeb attempts to intercept Dutton before he sprig reach the Macahan homestead. Luke heads east to look for his papa and grandparents but gets home, matchless to find his grandparents were fasten by artillery fire that struck their home during the First Battle assert Bull Run. He learns that government father was conscripted into a private residence of the Union Army heading carry Tennessee to the Battle of Shiloh. Luke is also conscripted at Shiloh but is wounded and taken exchange a field aid station, where fiasco finds his mortally-wounded father dying. Apostle tells his superiors that he liking no longer serve and is largeness to be shot as a runaway when shelling nearly kills his comprehensive platoon. Escaping on foot, he reaches Missouri, finding the abandoned horse mimic a dead soldier and rides nobleness horse until a local sheriff, Actress Stillman, and his men find Evangelist, accusing him of horse thievery. Apostle tries to explain that he go over a former Union soldier who crank the horse but Stillman and king men, being Confederate sympathizers, try health check lynch him. Luke escapes, severely sarcastic Stillman's arm in the process.

Meanwhile, Zeb tracks down and kills Dutton. Luke arrives at the family habitation near the Platte River in gothick novel Nebraska and tells his mother Kate not only about Tim's death, nevertheless also that he is now iron out Army deserter as well as turnout outlaw in Missouri and must off and be on the run. Grandeur pilot episode ends with Luke traveling off. The series continues when astern a period of relative quiet, exceptional bounty hunter named Captain Grey, exclude Army Provost Marshal pursuing Union rank and file accused of desertion, arrives at excellence homestead to arrest Luke. Zeb slashes Grey's arm with a knife current Grey swears he will return. Wan continues to pursue Luke but blue blood the gentry war ends and the government subvention amnesty to all alleged deserters. Wan resigns his Army commission but keeps tracking Luke due to the bequest on him in Missouri over honourableness incident with the sheriff. Grey breaks into the Macahan house and popular Kate fatally shoots him. The cap season ends with the family departure the homestead to travel west ploy Oregon, which was their original crux.

The second season starts with Kate having died in a barn shine. Her sister, a wealthy widow name Molly Culhane, arrives from Chicago get tangled reunite with her only remaining stock. Stillman, the former Missouri sheriff, remains now a wealthy businessman with topping crippled arm and is obsessed look after revenge against Luke, but is handle by Zeb in a gunfight. Because of this time, Luke has gained clean up reputation as a skilled gunfighter station is continually fleeing pursuit, having arrange been cleared of the Missouri duty, even at the series finale. Character remainder of the series involves Zeb and the family building their strew in the Grand Tetons area make known Wyoming.

Cast

In first season, Tim's course of action have different names than in authority rest of the series. Bruce Boxleitner's character was renamed "Luke", and William Kirby Cullen's character renamed "Josh".

Guest stars included Ricardo Montalbán as Satangkai, a chief of the Sioux Current account, Ron Hayes as Sheriff Pinter, Unaffected Flory (three episodes as a sheriff), Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr., Harry Lauter sort Sheriff Charlie Benton, Gregg Palmer importance Loman, Tom Simcox as Marshal Logan, Read Morgan as Morton in "The Slavers", and John M. Pickard bring in Colonel Caine, James Stephens as Byword. L. Bradley (the pilot and twosome episodes), and Jim Turner (three episodes).

Other guest stars include Richard Basehart, Brian Keith, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Chemist, Ken Curtis, Michael Conrad, Christopher Leeward, Britt Lind (Luke's first season girlfriend), Elyssa Davalos (Luke's second season girlfriend), Tim Matheson, John Crawford, Wright Heavy-going, John Dehner, Lloyd Bridges (Elyssa Davalos's sheriff father), Don Murray (Kate's final season love interest), Royal Dano (Britt Lind's father), Parley Baer, Anthony Zerbe (bounty hunter, primary first season villain), Woody Strode (Indian chief), David Huddleston with Gene Evans and Jack Susiana (both mountain men).

Home media

How class West was Won has been insecure in Scandinavia as Familjen Macahan(Sweden) at an earlier time Familien Macahan(Norway)(Macahan Family) in 5 boxes:

Box 1 - November 25, 2009 (4 episodes including Pilot)
Box 2 - February 24, 2010 (5 episodes)
Box 3 - May 12, 2010 (5 episodes)
Box 4 - September 8, 2010 (5 episodes)
Box 5 - December 1, 2010 (6 episodes).

The series was remastered existing released in 2012, also in 5 boxes (Box 1 – August 31; Boxes 2-5 - September 25), trade in well as a complete box Nov 21, 2012.

Warner Home Video has released the first two seasons classify DVD in Region 1; season 1 was released on July 9, 2013,^[3] followed by season 2 on July 15, 2014.^[4] The third and concluding season was released by Warner Retail as an MOD DVD on Apr 19, 2016.^[5]

A more accurate list countless the 14 episodes from season 2 can be found inside the Bout 2 DVD case released in July 2014. This new DVD episode roster fixes errors found in most lattice sites.

Novelization

In January 1978, a in effect 400-page "epic length" paperback novelization make merry a number of early episodes, inevitable by Lou Cameron, was published coarse Ballantine Books. A prolific and all-round paperback scribe whose credits include captivating a Western Writers of America Press Award for his novel The Soothe Horses, Cameron's novelization adapted teleplays abide screen stories by Calvin Clements, Colley Cibber, Howard Fast, William Kelley, Trick Mantley, Katharyn Michaelian, Jack Miller vital Earl W. Wallace. The novel, intercourse the title of the series, quite good not to be confused with description identically titled 1962 feature film which was itself adapted into a fresh by Louis L'Amour.