Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. He was demoted after the war during force reductions to the rank of Captain, but was reinstated in 1866 as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Many of the soldiers in the regiment were derelicts, former Confederates, or even criminals. The series was cancelled before the script timeline would have reached the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, where all perished on June 25, 1876, in a Sioux Indian ambush, Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair and much of his methodology of fighting Indians. Slim Pickens starred as a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante appeared as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played Sergeant James Bustard, a former Confederate soldier. Grant Woods appeared as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's The Deputy, appeared in the episode "Spirit Woman" in the role of a medicine man.
Wayne Maunder
Peter Palmer
Michael Dante
Slim Pickens
Robert F. Simon
John Palmer
Alexander Davion
Rodolfo Acosta
Jack Hogan
Ralph Meeker
Pamelyn Ferdin
Arthur Franz
R.G. Armstrong
Pierre Jalbert
Kathleen Nolan
Charles Dierkop
William Windom
William Smith
Rodd Redwing
Donnelly Rhodes
James Whitmore
Dennis Patrick
Yvonne De Carlo
Dub Taylor
Mary Ann Mobley
James Daly
George Sawaya
Philip Carey
James Craig
Robert Loggia
Gene Evans
Lloyd Bochner
James McCallion
Rory Calhoun
Albert Salmi
Agnes Moorehead
Edward Mulhare
Henry Beckman
Earl Holliman
Chris Robinson
Larry Pennell
Paul Petersen
Burr DeBenning
Darren McGavin
Barbara Rush
Hank Patterson
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
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