Colt .45 (TV series)
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| Colt .45 | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | The Colt Cousins on the BBC |
| Genre | western |
| Created by | based on the film by Thomas W. Blackburn |
| Developed by | Roy Huggins |
| Starring | Wayde Preston Donald May |
| Theme music composer | Mack David and Jerry Livingston |
| Composer(s) | Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 67 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
William T. Orr |
| Producer(s) | Roy Huggins Harry Tatelman Cedric Francis Mack David Joseph Hoffman |
| Supervising producer(s) |
Oren W. Haglund |
| Editor(s) | James Moore, supervisor |
| Location(s) |  CaliforniaWarner Bros. back lot and Warner Ranch |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Picture format | 1.33:1 monochrome |
| Audio format | monaural |
| First shown in | Fridays at 10pm |
| Original run | 18 October 1957 – 21 June 1960 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Maverick |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Colt .45 (also known as The Colt Cousins) is a western television series which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1960. The show derives from a 1950 Warner Brothers film of the same name with Randolph Scott and is a part of the William T. Orr-produced "family" of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Roy Huggins developed Colt .45 and cast Wayde Preston in the part of undercover government agent "Christopher Colt." Colt's cover would be as a traveling Wild West pistol salesman, hence the double entendre of the show's title.
After about a season, Preston and the studio had a falling-out and Christopher Colt's cousin, "Sam Colt, Jr.", portrayed by Donald May, became the series lead in 1959. Preston would eventually return for the final episodes.
The series was one of several Warner Bros. westerns on ABC during this period, including Maverick with James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins, Cheyenne with Clint Walker, Bronco with Ty Hardin, and Lawman with John Russell and Peter Brown. Various series leads occasionally did crossover episodes on some of the other shows, and one of the most imaginative was the "Hadley's Hunters" episode of Maverick, in which Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick comes upon Christopher Colt's sales satchel, abandoned in a room and covered with dust since the series had been cancelled the previous season.
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