The Texan (TV series)

The Texan is a Western television series starring film and television actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.



Synopsis
Rory Calhoun plays gunman Bill Longley, "The Texan," who travels across Texas from town to town in the wake of the Civil War. His reputation as a gunfighter precedes him and often brings trouble wherever he ends up next.

Production
Operating on a budget of $40,000 per episode, two episodes per week were filmed on stage 11 at Desilu. Location shooting was completed at Pearl Flats.

Broadcast
The original broadcast of The Texan aired 8:00–8:30 Monday evenings from September 1958 to September 1960 on CBS. ABC aired reruns of the program during its weekday lineup from October 1960 to March 1962, and then as part of its Saturday morning lineup from February to May 1962.

Home media
Timeless Media Group released 70 episodes of the series on DVD.

Reception
The show was #15 in the 1958-59 season with an average viewership of 12.4 million, but it failed to rank in the top 30 the following season.

Media information
Like many of the television Westerns of the 1950s, The Texan was adapted to a comic by Dan Spiegle in 1960.