| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | Wagon Train - The Complete Fifth Season May 1st Timeless Media Group Retail $79.98, Our: $59.99 |   |
| WHAT: WHEN: STUDIO: PRICE: | The Virginian - The Complete Sixth Season May 1st Timeless Media Group Retail $79.98, Our: $59.99 | |
More great T.V. Westerns are coming from Timeless Media Group as they have announced a May 1st release date for Wagon Train - The Complete Fifth Season and The Virginian - The Complete Sixth Season.
Both will be in collectible tins and be 10 and 9 discs respectively. As with many great shows of the era, A-list guest stars abound (see below). Bonus features are not expected.
Inspired by the classic western film Wagonmaster, directed by John Ford The Searchers, Stagecoach, Wagon Train debuted on Wednesday, September 18, 1957 on the NBC Television Network. The ensemble acting, wonderful scripts and great western scenery soon made Wagon Train a fixture in American homes on Wednesday nights, as millions of Americans of all ages tuned in to NBC for great family entertainment.
John McIntire returns to the cast of Wagon Train full-time as Wagon Master Chris Hale, joining costars Robert Horton (Head Scout-Flint McCullough), Frank McGrath (Charlie Wooster), Terry Wilson (Bill Hawks), and Denny Miller (Duke Shannon). Season Five marks the last appearance of Robert Horton in Wagon Train, after almost five full seasons.
Each weekly episode featured some of Hollywood's brightest stars in guest roles, including Joseph Cotten (The Captain Dan Brady Story), Polly Bergen (The Kitty Albright Story), Barbara Stanwyck (The Maud Frazier Story), Rory Calhoun (The Artie Matthewson Story), Nick Adams (The Traitor), Bette Davis (The Bettina May Story), Robert Culp (The Baylor Crowfoot Story), Jane Wyatt (The Heather Mahoney Story) and many more!
This 10 DVD collector's edition of Wagon Train The Complete Season Five, including all 37 great episodes, is sure to please both fans of the original broadcast and newcomers who are seeing it for the first time.
Owen Wister's 1902 western novel The Virginian was one of the first great novels of the American West. Set in the semi-mythical town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming in the 1890s, it chronicled the lives and relationships of the people who came west and settled the wild land. The Virginian was the first 90 minute television western, airing in prime time on NBC from 1962-1971.
Season Six of The Virginian saw James Drury and Doug McClure continue their roles as The Virginian and Trampas, but as in the previous seasons, there were changes in Medicine Bow. The great Charles Bickford (John Grainger) passed away mid-season, and was replaced by Wagon Train's John McIntire as the new proprietor of the Shiloh Ranch (Clay Grainger). McIntire's real-life wife, Jeanette Nolan, took the role of Clay's wife, Holly. Sara Lane, Don Quine and Clu Gulager rounded out the cast of Season Six and the saga of Medicine Bow went on.
They were joined by a distinguished array of guest stars, including Charles Bronson (The Reckoning), Darren McGavin (The Deadly Past), James Whitmore (Paid in Full), Susan Oliver (A Small Taste of Justice), Leslie Nielsen (The Fortress), Robert Lansing (Execution at Triste), and the Velvet Fog himself, Mel Tormé (The Handy Man), just to name a few.
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