TV series
Black Saddle
1959–1960 · 2 seasons
A thoughtful, deliberate Western that trades gunfights for courtroom reasoning, offering quiet moral tension and a steady, earnest pace.
- Created by
- Hal Hudson, John McGreevey
- Genres
- Western, Drama
- Starring
- Peter Breck, Russell Johnson, Victor Millan
- Overview
- Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.
- How it feels
- Earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Justice, redemption, guilt, morality
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
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- Created by
- Hal Hudson, John McGreevey
- Genres
- Western, Drama
- Starring
- Peter Breck, Russell Johnson, Victor Millan
