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FOUR STAR TELEVISION
    Series Guide
Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven

FOUR STAR Crime/Adventure/Drama series Guide

 Four Star Playhouse (1952-56) hosts Dick Powell, Ida Lupino, David Niven, Charles Boyer

Richard Diamond, Private Detective (4 Star)(1957-60) starring David Janssen

The David Niven Show (4 Star/NBC)(Summer 1959) host David Niven

The Detectives (4 Star)(1959-62) Robert Taylor

The June Allyson DuPont Show  (4Star) (1959-61) hosted by June Allyson

Michael Shayne (4 Star)(1960-61) starring Richard Denning

Dante (4 Star))(1960-61) starring Howard Duff

The Law and Mr. Jones (4 Star)(1960-62) starring James Whitmore

Target: The Corruptors (4 Star) (1961-62) starring Stephen McNally

The Dick Powell Show (4 Star) (1961-63) anthology series, host Dick Powell

Saints and Sinners (4Star) (1962-63) starring Nick Adams & John Larkin

The Lloyd Bridges Show (4 Star/CBS)(1962-63) host Lloyd Bridges

The Rogues (4Star) (1964-65) David Niven, Charles Boyer, Gig Young

Burke's Law  (4 Star)(1963-65) / Amos Burke, Secret Agent (1965-66) Gene Barry

Honey West (4 Star/ABC)(1963-65) starrng Anne Francis & John Ericson

 

FOUR STAR  TV Western series Guide

 
Zane Grey Theater     imdb  /   episode guide
Four Star for CBS
1956-60 156 episodes x 30 min bw
western anthology series
hosted by
Dick Powell
Features Pilots for "Trackdown","The Rifleman" & "The Westerner"

Trackdown     imdb  /  episode guide
Four Star for CBS
1957-59    pilot + 70 episodes x 30 min bw
cast
Robert Culp ................ Hoby Gilman
Ellen Corby ........... Henrietta Porter
Norman Leavitt ................... Ralph
Pilot featured in "Zane Grey Theater"
Adventures of an 1870's Texas Ranger.

Black Saddle    imdb  /  episode guide
Four Star for ABC
1958-59  44 episodes x 30 min bw
cast
Peter Breck ................ Clay Culhane
Russell Johnson ....... Marshal Gib Scott
Anna Lisa .................. Nora Travers
A gunfighter turned lawyer tours the
southwest after the Civil War.

Wanted - Dead or Alive    imdb     episode guide
Four Star/ Malcolm for CBS
1958-60 98 episdes x 30 min bw (colorized in 1990's)
starring
Steve McQueen ............. Josh Randall
Pilot featured in 'Trackdown'
Adventures of a western bounty hunter.
Pilot featured in "Trackdown"

The Rifleman     imdb    episode guide     
Four Star / Sussex for ABC
1958-63 168 episodes x 30 min bw
cast
Chuck Connors .......... Lucas McCain (1958-63)
Johnny Crawford ......... Mark McCain (1958-63)
Paul Fix ..... Marshal Micah Torrance (1958-63)
Joan Taylor ........ Miss Milly Scott (1960-62)
Patricia Blair .......... Lou Mallory (1962-63)
Bill Quinn ... Sweeney, the bartender (1958-63)
Hope Summers .......... Hattie Denton (1958-63)
Harlan Warde ... Banker John Hamilton (1958-62)
Joe Higgins ............ Nils Swenson (1961-63)
Ralph Moody ............. Doc Burrage (1961-63)

Pilot featured in "Zane Grey Theatre".


Johnny Ringo   imdb    episode guide
Four Star for CBS
1959-60   38 episodes x 30 min bw
produced by Aaron Spelling
cast
Don Durant ................ Johnny Ringo
Karen Sharpe .............. Laura Thomas
Mark Goddard ..................... Cully
Terence de Marney .......... Case Thomas


Law of The Plainsman   imdb  /   episode guide
Four Star / Cardiff  for NBC
1959-60   30 episodes x 30 min bw
cast
Michael Ansara ... Deputy U.S.Marshal Sam Buckhart
Dayton Lummis .............. Marshal Andy Morrison
Gina Gillespie ........................ Tess Logan
Nora Marlowe ..................... Martha Commager
Robert Harland ............... Deputy Billy Jordon


The Westerner imdb  /   episode guide  
Four Star / Winchester for NBC
1960    pilot + 13  episodes x 30 min bw
executive producer Hal Hudson
producer Sam Peckinpah
cast
Brian Keith ............ Dave Blassingame
John Dehner .............. Burgundy Smith
Henry A. Gobble .................. Digger
Marie Selland ..................... Jenny
Jimmy Lee Cook
Pilot featured in 1959 episode of 'Zane Grey Theatre'

Stagecoach West     imdb    /   episode guide
Four Star / Hilgarde production for ABC
1960-61   38 episodes x 60 min bw
cast
Wayne Rogers ................ Luke Perry
Robert Bray ................. Simon Kane
Richard Eyer ................ David Kane
James Burke ................ Zeke Bonner

The Big Valley 
imdb  /   episode guide
Four Star/Margate for ABC
Levy-Garner-Laven production
1965-69 112 episodes x 60 min color 5 seasons
cast
Barbara Stanwyck ..... Victoria Barkley
Richard Long ............ Jarod Barkley
Peter Breck ...............Nick Barkley
Lee Majors .......................Heath
Linda Evans ............. Audra Barkley

FOUR STAR Comedy series Guide

Hey, Jeannie (4 Star)(1956-57) starring Jeannie Carson

Mr Adams And Eve (4 Star) (1957-58) starring Ida Lupino & Howard Duff

The Tom Ewell Show (4 Star)(1960-61) starring Tom Ewell & Marilyn Erskine

Peter Loves Mary (4 Star)(1960-61) starring Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy

Mrs G. Goes To College (4Star)(1961-62) starring Gertrude Berg

McKeever And The Colonel (4 Star)(1962-63) starring Scott Lane & Allyn Joslyn

Ensign O'Toole (4 Star)(1962-63) starring Dean Jones

The Smother Brothers Show (half-hour sitcom) (4Star)(1965-66)


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