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Tombstone Territory: With Pat Conway, Richard Eastham, Quentin Sondergaard, Bill Catching. Tough Sheriff Clay Hollister keeps the law in Tombstone, Arizona with the support of his faithful deputies and the editor of the local newspaper.
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- 1957-10-16
- Western
- 30
Tombstone Territory is an American Western television series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959. The first season was sponsored by Bristol-Myers (consumer products) and the second season by Lipton (tea/soup) and Philip Morris (Marlboro cigarettes).
- Pat Conway came from Hollywood royalty. Conway was the grandson of silent film actor Francis X. Bushman, best known as the villain Messala in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur.
- Richard Eastham was Wonder Woman’s boss. Eastham was 15 years older than Conway and enjoyed success as a singer and stage actor before he was cast as Claibourne.
- Tombstone Territory was based on true stories. Unlike other TV Westerns that played fast and loose with fact and folklore, Tombstone Territory was committed to historical accuracy.
- Why isn’t Wyatt Earp in Tombstone Territory? Tombstone’s most famous marshal was already the lead on ABC’s popular Western serial The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp, which had debuted two seasons earlier.
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A no-nonsense sheriff tries to keep the peace in 1880s Arizona Territory. After the show left the ABC schedule in October 1959, new episodes were produced for syndication.