Cimarron Strip (1967-1968)

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Plot Summary
Marshal Jim Crown must enforce the law in the strip of land lying between Kansas Territory and the Indian territory in the late 19th century. He is aided by the Scot, Mac Gregor, and the photographer, Francis Wilde. Easterner Dulcey has inherited her late father's inn.
Written by Ed Stephan

Series Cast
Stuart Whitman ... Marshal Jim Crown (23 episodes, 1967-1968)
Percy Herbert ... Angus MacGregor (23 episodes, 1967-1968)
Randy Boone ... Francis Wilde (23 episodes, 1967-1968)
Jill Townsend ... Dulcey Coopersmith (23 episodes, 1967-1968)
Jack Braddock ... Bartender / ... (7 episodes, 1967-1968)
Karl Swenson ... Dr. Kihlgren / ... (6 episodes, 1967-1968)
Max Wagner ... Barfly / ... (5 episodes, 1967-1968)
Jack Tornek ... Gravedigger / ... (4 episodes, 1967-1968)
Danny Borzage ... Townsman / ... (3 episodes, 1967-1968)
and many others notably...
Steve Forrest, Warren Oates
Boyd 'Red' Morgan ,Roy Barcroft

Series Directed by
Herschel Daugherty (3 episodes, 1967-1968)
Vincent McEveety (3 episodes, 1967-1968)
Alvin Ganzer (3 episodes, 1967)
Charles R. Rondeau (2 episodes, 1967-1968)
Bernard McEveety (2 episodes, 1967)
Robert Butler (2 episodes, 1968)
Gerald Mayer (2 episodes, 1968)

Series Produced by
Christopher Knopf .... supervising producer / executive producer (23 episodes, 1967-1968)
Philip Leacock .... executive producer (22 episodes, 1967-1968)
Douglas Benton .... producer (13 episodes, 1967-1968)
Bernard McEveety .... producer (9 episodes, 1967-1968)

Series Writing Credits
Christopher Knopf (23 episodes, 1967-1968)
and others..

Series Original Music by
Harry Geller (7 episodes, 1967-1968)
Morton Stevens (2 episodes, 1967-1968)

Filming Locations
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
Bishop, California, USA
CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA
California, USA
Kanab, Utah, USA
Lone Pine, California, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968.
Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke.
Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971.

Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s
(the others are The Virginian and, for one season, Wagon Train),
and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character.

Cimarron Strip was set in the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises,
east to west, Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma.
The show is set in 1888, just as the continuous frontier of the West,
which once ran from the Canadian to the Mexican border, was closing.
In less than five years there would no longer be that "continuous frontier,"
only pockets of undeveloped land.
This was the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.

User Review

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Excellent writing, direction, and stories. Stuart Whitman very good.
12 April 2008 | by bfm_1017 (East Coast, USA)

I recently discovered this show in reruns on Encore Westerns. I honestly never saw this show in its first run, and don't know how I missed it. Some of the best stories I've seen in Westerns, well directed, Stuart Whitman is very believable as Marshal Crown, tough and honest to a fault. I don't know how shows like this didn't last, yet Gunsmoke was on forever it seems. The Encore copies are around 1 hr 17 minutes each, so they appear uncut, and without commercials. The 1 1/2 hr format allows the story to be well developed and to have multiple twists. I am quite genuine in saying shows like this are non existent anymore. The prints are not great, especially when compared to Big Valley or Bonanza which appear to have been restored. Now I wish someone would run "Lancer", "High Chaparral", "Branded", "Have Gun Will Travel" among other old westerns.

Cimarron Strip is top drawer among westerns right up with my personal favorite - "The High Chaparral".