''Cimarron City'' is an American one-hour
Western
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television series
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, starring
George Montgomery as Matt Rockford and
John Smith as Lane Temple, airing for 26 episodes on
NBC
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from 1958 to 1959 before being canceled.
Cimarron City
Cimarron City is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 150 at the 2010 census, a 39.4 percent gain over the figure of 110 in 2000. is a
boomtown
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in
Logan County, Oklahoma
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Logan County is part of the Oklahoma City, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area. Guthrie served as the c ...
, north of
Oklahoma City
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. Rich in oil and gold, Cimarron City aspires to become the capital of the future state of
Oklahoma
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, to be created in 1907.
Synopsis
Matthew Rockford is the son of an area
cattle
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rancher, who is the founder and mayor of Cimarron City. Lane Temple, the
blacksmith
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, serves also as the deputy sheriff. He maintains the law amid the crooked schemes concocted in Cimarron City.
Audrey Totter
Audrey Mary Totter (December 20, 1917 – December 12, 2013) was an American radio, film, and television actress and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s.
Early life
Audrey – some sources indicate "Audra" – Totter w ...
played Beth Purcell, the owner of the boarding house. The episodes were supposed to rotate equally among Montgomery, Smith, and Totter. The writers, however, did not give Totter enough stories as promised, and she left the series. ''Cimarron City'' also featured
Dan Blocker
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the long-running NBC Western television series ''Bonanza''.
Biography Early life
Blocker was born ...
(before ''
Bonanza
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'') in two roles. In the second episode, Blocker plays outlaw Carl Budinger, who is killed. In the fourth episode, he reappears as Carl's good-hearted brother, Tiny Budinger, who becomes one of Rockford's ranch hands.
Cast
* George Montgomery as Matt Rockford, Mayor
* John Smith as Deputy Lane Temple
* Audrey Totter as Beth Purcell
* Dan Blocker as Tiny Carl Budinger
*
Wally Brown
Wallace Edgar Brown (October 8, 1904 – November 13, 1961) was an American actor and comedian. In the 1940s, he performed as the comic partner of Alan Carney.
Early years
Wallace Edgar Brown was born in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Her ...
as Jed Fame
*
Claire Carleton
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as Alice Purdy
* Pete Dunn as Dody Hamer
*
George Dunn as Jesse Williams
*
Tom Fadden
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Fadden was born in Bayard, Iowa, on January 6, 1895; his fathe ...
as Silas Perry
*
Stuart Randall as Sheriff Art Sampson
*
Addison Richards
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as Martin Kingsley
*
Fred Sherman as Burt Purdy
*
Nesdon Booth
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as Frank the bartender
Guest stars
*
Nick Adams
*
Morris Ankrum
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*
Frank Bank
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(uncredited)
*
Edgar Buchanan
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*
John Carradine
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*
Walter Coy
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Linda Darnell
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Dan Duryea
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Olive Carey
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Spencer Chan
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Mike Connors
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Eduard Franz
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Robert Fuller
*
Peter Graves
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Raymond Guth
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*
Myron Healey
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*
Ed Hinton
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Bern Hoffman
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Clyde Howdy
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Gary Hunley
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Richard Jaeckel
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*
Vivi Janiss
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*
Douglas Kennedy
*
Barbara Lawrence
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Norman Leavitt
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*
John Litel
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June Lockhart
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Fred MacMurray
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Dorothy Malone
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Ken Mayer
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John McIntire
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Gary Merrill
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Elizabeth Montgomery
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Rita Moreno
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J. Carrol Naish
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Debra Paget
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Gregg Palmer
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Luana Patten
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Larry Pennell
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Joe Ploski
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Jason Robards, Sr.
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Pernell Roberts
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Boyd Stockman
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Dean Stockwell
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Randy Stuart
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Gloria Talbott
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William Talman
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Lee Van Cleef
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Production notes
The series was filmed at the
Iverson Movie Ranch Iverson may refer to:
Computing
* Iverson Award, an ACM honour for APL contributions
* Iverson bracket, a mathematical notation
* Iverson Notation, the syntactic basis of APL (programming language)
Other uses
* Iverson Movie Ranch, Chatsworth, Ca ...
in
Chatsworth in
Los Angeles County, California
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.
''Cimarron City'' was placed opposite two more successful half-hour Western programs on the rival
CBS
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network,
Richard Boone
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's ''
Have Gun, Will Travel'' and
James Arness
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' ''
Gunsmoke
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''.
Episode list
Home media
On March 6, 2012,
Timeless Media Group
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released ''Cimarron City: The Complete Series'' on DVD in Region 1.
References
Further reading
* McNeil, Alex. ''
Total Television
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'' (1996). New York: Penguin Books
* Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, ''
'' (1999). New York: Ballantine Books
External links
*
* http://www.westernclippings.com/remember/gmontgomery_doyouremember.shtml, , Western Western Clippings George Montgomery interview
*
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