Pony Express (TV series)

Pony Express
Genre	Western
Written by	Paul King Joseph Stone Budd Lesser John Meredyth Lucas Sam Peckinpah
Directed by	Frank McDonald Jean Yarbrough
Starring	Grant Sullivan Don Dorrell
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	35
Production
Producer(s)	Tom McKnight Robert Stillman
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	25 mins.
Production company(s)	California National Productions
Release
Original network	Syndication
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	1959 – May 31, 1960

Pony Express is an American western television series about the adventures of an agent in the 1860s of the Central Overland Express Company, better known as the Pony Express.^[1] The half-hour program starring Grant Sullivan was created by California National Productions.^[1] Pony Express ran for thirty-five episodes in syndication from the fall of 1959 until May 1960.^[2]

Overview

The series featured two recurring roles: Grant Sullivan as Brett Clark, a roving investigator for the company, and Don Dorrell as Donovan, a young Pony Express rider. The majority of the weekly episodes involved Clark and Donovan solving various Pony Express mysteries.^[3]

Production

Pony Express was filmed at Iverson's Movie Ranch in Chatsworth in Los Angeles County, California.^[2] It was one of several western-themed television shows produced by CNP, including Boots and Saddles (1957–1958) and Union Pacific (1959–1960) and Frontier (1955-1956).^[4] CNP created the series for the 100th anniversary of the actual Pony Express.^[5]

Guest stars

Claude Akins James Best Steve Brodie Whitney Blake Sebastian Cabot Paul Carr Walter Coy Ross Elliott William Fawcett Joe Flynn Douglas Fowley Dabbs Greer

I. Stanford Jolley Dick Jones Douglas Kennedy Bethel Leslie Nobu McCarthy Howard McNear Mort Mills Gregg Palmer Slim Pickens Denver Pyle Burt Reynolds Madlyn Rhue

See also

• Pony Express (film)

References

1. Jackson, Ronald; Abbot, Doug (April 23, 2008). 50 Years of The Television Western. AuthorHouse. p. 181. ISBN 978-1434359254.
2. "Pony Express (1959)". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved February 23, 2009.
3. Marill, Alvin H. (2011). Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags and Sidewinders. Scarecrow Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-8108-8132-7.
4. "Pony Express". Classic TV Archives. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
5. Erikson, Hal (November 5, 2001). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years 1947-1987. McFarland & Company. p. 181. ISBN 978-0786411986.

External links

• Pony Express at the Internet Movie Database