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The Texan: Created by James Gunn, Kathleen Hite. With Rory Calhoun, Regis Parton, Duncan Lamont, James Drake. The Texan, a Civil War Veteran whose reputation of being the fastest gun in the west precedes him, roams across Texas from town to town, not looking for trouble, but trouble finds him.
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Network. CBS. Release. September 29, 1958. ( 1958-09-29) –. September 19, 1960. ( 1960-09-19) The Texan is a Western television series starring film and television actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
- US
- Western
- English
After The Texan ended, Calhoun starred in Thunder in Carolina (1960). He appeared on TV shows such as Gunsmoke, Death Valley Days, and Bonanza. Calhoun went to Spain for The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) directed by Sergio Leone. (He was robbed during filming.) He did The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961) in Britain, then did Marco Polo (1962) in Italy.
S1.E3 ∙ The Troubled Town. Mon, Oct 13, 1958. Hot-headed Johnny Kaler, embarrassed that he's been caught cheating at cards, provokes Bill Longley into a barroom brawl and is quickly thrashed. Later in the evening Johnny tries to kill Bill, but dies when an unknown assailant shoots him in the back from the shadows.
The Widow of Paradise: Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. With Rory Calhoun, Charles Watts, Russell Thorson, Kem Dibbs. After Longley is forced to kill a barfly that tried to shoot him in the back, he learns a quirk in the Montana law code - any man who slays another in a fair fight is responsible for the care and feeding of the widow and children until she gets married.
