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The Outcasts: Created by Ben Brady, Leon Tokatyan. With Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano. A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War.
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The Outcasts is an American Western television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.
- Don Murray had acting in his blood. Murray’s mother Ethel was a Ziegfeld Follies performer and his father was a singer and dancer. When sound filmmaking became prevalent in 1928, the couple relocated from New York to Hollywood.
- Otis Young was born on the 4 of July. Young was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 4, 1932. After serving in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, he enrolled at NYU on the G.I.
- There was a novel. In 1968, Popular Library published a tie-in novel by Steve Frazee appropriately titled, “The Outcasts.” Frazee also novelized other popular Western series of the era, including Bonanza and The High Chaparral and his stories formed the basis for episodes of Bronco and Cheyenne, as well as a handful of feature films.
- The frank racial component of The Outcasts appealed to both actors. “I believe this is sociologically important,” Murray told Variety after he was cast in 1968.
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The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.
