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''Casey Jones'' is an American
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series syndicated during the 1957–58 television season. It was based upon the life of late 19th-century
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Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Ce ...
in the era of pioneering western
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s. ''Casey Jones'' also aired on the
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in the United Kingdom and on the
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in Australia.


Synopsis

The series is set in the late 19th century, featuring the adventures of railroad engineer
Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois Ce ...
and the crew of the Cannonball Express steam locomotive, fireman Wallie Sims and conductor Redrock Smith, working for the Midwest and Central Railroad. Casey lived in the fictional
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town of Midvale, within commuting distance of
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, with his wife, Alice, their young son, Casey, Jr., and their dog Cinders. Although there really was a famous locomotive engineer named Casey Jones of the
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, the television series is only loosely based on him. His train is named "Cannonball Express" (the real Jones' locomotive, #382, was nicknamed "Cannonball"). The name of the character Wallie Sims is a conflation of Illinois Central employee Wallace Saunders, who wrote the earliest version of "
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," and the real Jones' fireman, Simeon "Sim" Webb. Unlike Wallie Sims, both Saunders and Webb were black. Kenneth Gamet, the producer of ''Casey Jones'', offers a gentler Western series against the more violent adult shows of the time. ''Casey Jones'' features the same classical types of plots as other westerns such as train robbers and vandals, but the episodes center as much on Casey's interaction with his family, particularly Casey, Jr.


Cast list


Regulars

* Alan Hale as Casey Jones * Bobby Clark as Casey, Jr. *
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as Wallie Sims *
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as Red Rock * Mary Lawrence as Alice Jones


Semi-regulars

*
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as Sheriff Tynes * Paul Keast as Nathaniel Carter


Production notes

Commissioned by Los Angeles television station
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, it was shot on a special set at
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's studio
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in the
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,
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. Shot for one season, in part because of Alan Hale's commitment to filming episodes of
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's '' The Texan,'' the series ran for 32 half-hour
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episodes. Its theme song was a version of the " Ballad of Casey Jones". The regular version of the opening titles features Alan Hale with Bobby Clark in the cab and credits Mary Lawrence, but the inclusion of Cinders is inconsistent. A reversed image is used in a close up of the Cannonball and the nameplate can be seen as reversed behind the show title. There are alternate versions of the closing credits. Both feature Alan Hale and Bobby Clark waving from the cab, the second features different shots of the Cannonball, including one of it passing over a trestle and the brow of a hill, and a different version of the song with slight amendments to the lyrics (to include Cinders). Alan Hale filmed an introduction to the first episode on set with Bobby Clark where he introduced the new series to the audience. The locomotive used in location footage was
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, which was also used in many other television shows and films. The railroad scenes were filmed on the
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in
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.


Episode list


Broadcast

In the UK, the series was shown by
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, from 8 November 1961 to 21 February 1962 (16 episodes), and from 4 April 1962 to 30 May 1962 (a further 9 episodes). According to issues of the UK ''
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'' magazine, the series was shown in the UK on
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, the first run commencing on 8 November 1967, with a second run from 21 March 1969. Both runs showed only 26 episodes of the series. The last screening of an episode by the BBC was in August 1975. As of April 2021, the show is airing on the Sony-owned
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network. In the mid-90s, it also aired on
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.


References


External links

* {{IMDb title, id=0051263, title=Casey Jones
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