Laurie Holden played Mary Travis, widowed publisher of Four Corners' newspaper "The Daily Clarion" and off-and-on sweetheart of Chirs Larrabee and Dana Barron) was seen as the hoydenish Casey, who was sweet on J.D.
TV WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE SERIES
Unlike the original film, the TV series included a brace of female leads. Dunne (Andrew Kavovit), a callow young New Yorker who claimed to be a man of wealth but wasn't, and who'd gone west seeking the sort of excitement he'd read about in dime novels. The rest of the Seven included Chris' best friend Vin Tanner (Eric Close), a taciturn sharpshooter who hoped to bury his past as a bounty hunter, if only his many enemies would let him Buck Wilmington (Dale Midkiff), the group's resident womanizer Josiah Sanchez (Ron Perlman), a former priest who lost the calling after killing a man in self defense, and who assumed the guise of a "mad prophet" to strike terror in the hearts of the bad guys Ezra Standish (Anthony Starke), a Southern-born gambler, con artist and all-around cynic, and the only true "mercenary" in the bunch Nathan Jackson (Rick Worthy), a former slave who threw a mean knife, and who by virtue of serving in an all-black Union field hospital during the Civil War was Four Corners' unofficial doctor and J.D. Michael Biehn headed the cast as the group's grim-visaged, Eastwoodish leader Chris Larrabee, a former gun-for-hire who felt responsible for the murders of his loved ones and intended to devote the rest of his life doing penance for past sins.
This done, the Magnificent Seven decided to remain in the town of Four Corners for the purpose of protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty, and in general righting the wrongs blighting the landscape of the Great Frontier. In slightly more "PC" spin on the 1960 film's plotline, in which the villain was a snarling Mexican bandido, the titular seven gunfighters were brought together to safeguard a friendly tribe of Seminoles from an insane ex-Confederate officer and his minions.
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Hey, it was a simpler time back in 1958!Īt least three different versions of the gun were used in production and studio imagery and one made it into a European auction last week.Based on the classic 1960 western movie of the same name (which in turn was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's epic The Seven Samurai), the weekly, hour-long The Magnificent Seven first rode onto the CBS primetime schedule on January 3, 1998. After some good-natured explanations and $1,100 in licenses and fees paid by producers (about $9300 in today’s cash), the ATF went away and the studio had an FFL with a SOT to produce more guns if needed. In a funny twist of fate, the gun was made without adhering to the National Firearms Act requirements of the time for Short-barreled rifles, which led to Treasury agents showing up on set the day after the first episode aired. The SBR, known popularly as a “Mare’s Leg,” was a shortened Winchester Lever Action.Īccording to the Internet Media Firearms Database McQueen’s prop gun was a chopped-down Winchester Model 1892 saddle ring carbine in. The series, which ran some 94 episodes, featured Steve McQueen as a Civil War veteran Josh Randall with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.
Corral were only just a few generations past. After all, the days of Tombstone and the O.K. In a strange twist of fate, a sawn-off lever-action cowboy rifle that drew the close attention of federal agents in the 1950s and went on to arguably become a star of the small screen, was for a princely sum in Paris last week.įrom 1958-61 CBS ran an Old Western TV series called Wanted: Dead or Alive as part of the overall trend at the time in shows of that period, such as Gunsmoke and Bonanza, being extremely popular.
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