Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers | |
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Genre | Adventure |
Written by | Jennings Cobb John O'Dea Douglas Heyes |
Directed by | Lew Landers |
Starring | Philip Carey Warren Stevens Patrick Whyte |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Production locations | Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, United States |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Lancer Productions Limited |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | 21 October 1956 – 14 April 1957 |
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season.
In a period in which much of the programming on U.S. television consisted of Westerns, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers could best be described as an "Eastern". It consisted of the adventures of a fictional regiment of the famed real-life cavalry of the British Indian Army. The leading characters were the 77th's officers: the commander, Colonel Standish (Patrick Whyte) and two of his lieutenants, William Storm (Warren Stevens) and Michael Rhodes (Phil Carey). Rhodes was portrayed as a Canadian, purportedly because the actor portraying him, a native of New Jersey, could not be coached to produce a credible English accent.
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