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Laramie
TV Series (1959 - 1963)
It is the 1870s in Wyoming Territory. Slim Sherman (John Smith)and his 14-year-old brother Andy (Robert Crawford) try to hang on to their ranch after their father is shot by a land grabber. They augment their slight cattle ranch income by serving as a stagecoach station near Laramie. Jess Harper (Robert Fuller) a drifter stays to help.
Series Info
Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Sep. 15, 1959
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
60 min.
Network
Genre
- western
Character Guide
Series Fun Facts
- The main musical theme, written by Cyril J. Mockridge, also was used as the main theme in the 1945 film, "Thunderhead~Son of Flicka".
- The exterior sets of the old western town of Laramie in this series were not on the Warner Bros. back lot; they were filmed on the Universal Studios Western Street as Revue studios was…
[show]The exterior sets of the old western town of Laramie in this series were not on the Warner Bros. back lot; they were filmed on the Universal Studios Western Street as Revue studios was located at Universal International Studios. Warner Bros. Laramie Street was used in the "Lawman" TV Series and for many years after it was also used in countless Warner Bros. motion picture and television projects. since the end of the "Laramie" television series. It had also been continuously rented out for filming to several non-Warner Bros. productions such as Little House on the Prairie (1974), among others. Known throughout the studio as "Laramie Street," it consisted of three streets of old western buildings and it was the last of two separate western sets to remain standing on the Warner Bros. lot. Another western street, which existed in the central portion of the studio's back lot, was demolished in the mid-'80s. Laramie Street remained in existence until 2000, when it was demolished to make way for a collection of modern-day exterior set houses.
[hide] - The set that served as the Sherman Ranch and Relay Station appears in a 1960 episode of Wagon Train - The Larry Hanify Story.
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