Stories of the Century

Stories of the Century
Jim Davis and Mary Castle
GenreWestern
Written by
  • Maurice Tombragel
  • Joe Richardson
  • Milton Raison
  • Budd Lesser
  • Gerald Geraghty
  • Dwight Cummins
Directed by
  • Franklin Adreon
  • William Witney
  • Joe Kane
Starring
Theme music composerHerschel Burke Gilbert (ASCAP)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes39
Production
Producers
  • Rudy Ralston
Edward J. White
EditorsJim Davis, narrator
Running time30 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkSyndication
ReleaseJanuary 23, 1954 (1954-01-23) –
March 11, 1955 (1955-03-11)

Stories of the Century is a 39-episode Western historical fiction television series starring Jim Davis that ran in syndication through Republic Pictures between 1954 and 1955.

Synopsis

Kristine Miller in Stories of the Century
Jim Davis and Kristine Miller in Stories of the Century

Jim Davis, who became famous decades later as the patriarch Jock Ewing in the Dallas television series, held a dual role as the show's narrator and Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark.[1] Mary Castle co-starred in twenty-six episodes as Clark's assistant, Frankie Adams; she was replaced by Kristine Miller, who appeared in thirteen episodes as Margaret "Jonesy" Jones. Clark and his female associates traveled the American West weekly, seeking to capture the most notorious badmen. They placed Clark at the right place and the right time to capture great moments in the history of the American Old West. Clark's appearances often seemed contrived, as when he appears just at the time young Robert Ford was assassinating Jesse James. Though Clark himself was fictional, the events he encountered were generally real, with their historicity enforced with newspaper accounts and some historical records.[citation needed]

The series was the first television production of Republic Pictures, later CBS Paramount Television, which then used the name Hollywood Television Service, and subsequently Studio City Television Service. The episodes were filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth in Los Angeles County, California. The series also filmed some scenes at nearby Vasquez Rocks.

In various episodes, Stories of the Century cast Marie Windsor as Belle Starr, Lee Van Cleef as Jesse James, Slim Pickens as a variation of the Sundance Kid rechristened the "Smiling Kid" in an episode about Butch Cassidy, Rick Jason as Joaquin Murrieta, Steve Brodie as Harry Tracy, John Dehner as Henry Plummer, Richard Jaeckel as Billy the Kid, and Bruce Bennett as William Quantrill of "Quantrill's Raiders".

Production notes

In 1955, Stories of the Century became the first Western to win an Emmy Award in the category of "Western or Adventure Series".[2] One of its competitors was The Roy Rogers Show.[3]

In later rebroadcasts, as was common practice of the time (episodes that aired in reruns were usually given a separate title from new episodes), the program was entitled The Fast Guns.[2]

The series has since lapsed into the public domain in the United States.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Jackson, Ronald; Abbott, Doug (2008). Ronald Jackson and Doug Abbott, Fifty Years of the Television Western. AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781434359254. Retrieved July 1, 2009. Though Fifty Years of the Television Western errs in stating that Marvin Miller did the narration for Stories of the Century.
  2. ^ a b Hyatt, Wesley (2015-09-11). Emmy Award Winning Nighttime Television Shows, 1948-2004. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0874-7.
  3. ^ Alex McNeil, Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present, 4th ed., New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 793

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