Temple Houston (TV series)
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Temple Houston is an American Western television series starring Jeffrey Hunter as real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston. It ran for one season on NBC from 1963 to 1964. It is considered "the first attempt ... to produce an hour-long western series with the main character being an attorney in the formal sense."[1] Temple Houston was the only program which Jack Webb sold to a network during his ten months as the head of production at Warner Bros. Television.[2] It was also the lone series in which Hunter played a regular part.[3] The series' supporting cast features Jack Elam and Chubby Johnson.
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Temple Houston | |
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Genre | Western Legal drama Comedy |
Directed by | Leslie H. Martinson William Conrad Robert Totten Irving J. Moore Alvin Ganzer Robert D. Webb |
Starring | Jeffrey Hunter Jack Elam James Best Frank Ferguson Chubby Johnson Mary Wickes |
Opening theme | "The Yellow Rose of Texas" as arranged by Frank Comstock and Ned Washington |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producers | William T. Orr Jack Webb Jeffrey Hunter |
Producers | Richard M. Bluel Joseph Dackow Lawrence Dobkin Jimmy Lydon |
Editor | Byron Chudnow |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production companies | Apollo Productions Rancom Productions Inc. Temple Houston Company Warner Bros. Television |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | September 19, 1963 (1963-09-19) ā April 2, 1964 (1964-04-02) |
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