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Powderkeg: Directed by Douglas Heyes. With Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole, Fernando Lamas, John McIntire. Just before World War I, two adventurers are hired to bring back a hijacked train from Mexico.
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- Action, Adventure, War
- Douglas Heyes
- 1971-04-16
A lighthearted adventure in the pre-World War I West with Taylor and Cole playing a pair of troubleshooters hired to retrieve a hijacked train. They continued their roles and battled early twentieth-century crime in the short-lived late 1971 series "Bearcats!"
- Douglas Heyes
- Rod Taylor
Just before World War I, two adventurers are hired to bring back a hijacked train from Mexico.Original title: Powderkeg (1971) AKA: Bearcats! Made for televi...
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they ...
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Set in 1914, somewhat later historically than a traditional Western, the stories center on the heroes' use of a 1914 Stutz Bearcat automobile. Although automobiles were common in the United States in 1914, a $2,000 sports car would have been very rare in the more remote areas of the Western United States. How the heroes paid for this expensive ride...
The series was created by veteran TV writer/producer Douglas Heyes who also served as executive producer. He wrote and directed the TV movie Powderkeg that served as the pilot film for the series. Episodes were shot on location in near Tucson, Arizona, and also in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico. Powderkegwas syndicated in the 1970s and frequently ...
The series was shown extensively overseas, including Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Its pilot film, Powderkeg, was released as a theatrical feature overseas.
On May 14, 2013, Timeless Media Group released Bearcats! – The Complete Series in a three-DVD set in Region 1.The 90-minute pilot episode "Powderkeg" is not included, but was released as a standalone DVD or as part of the "20 Great Westerns: Heroes and Bandits" DVD box set produced by TGG Direct.
When the series was announced, paperback publisher Award Books licensed book rights to Bearcats! and commissioned an original novel by veteran Western novelist W.T. Ballard, to be published in 1971, under his tie-in pseudonym "Brian Fox" (a by-line he had employed often when working for Award). But when the TV series was canceled before the book co...
Other sources
1. Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 2. "Still Hitting on All Four". Author not listed. TV Guide, September 18, 1971. 3. Heyes, Douglas, Bearcats! - The Complete Television Series, Timeless Media Group, UPC 011301675767, 14 May 2013.
Powderkeg at IMDb(Pilot)Bearcats! at IMDbBearcats! at the Internet Movie Cars Database- 13 (+ 1 pilot movie)
- September 16 –, December 30, 1971
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- CBS
Powderkeg. 1971 · 1 hr 33 min. TV-14. Action · Adventure. A tongue-in-cheek adventure set in 1914 about a pair of trouble-shooting cowpokes hired to rescue the passengers of a train hijacked from Mexico. Subtitles: English. Starring: Rod Taylor Dennis Cole Michael Ansara Fernando Lamas Luciana Paluzzi Tisha Sterling Reni Santoni Joe De Santis ...
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