| Temple Houston | |
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Jeffrey_Hunter_Temple_Houston_1963.JPG) Jeffrey Hunter in Temple Houston (1963) | |
| Genre | Western Legal drama Comedy |
| Directed by | Leslie H. Martinson William Conrad Robert Totten Irving J. Moore Alvin Ganzer Robert D. Webb |
| Starring | Jeffrey Hunter Jack Elam James Best Frank Ferguson Chubby Johnson Mary Wickes |
| Opening theme | "The Yellow Rose of Texas" as arranged by Frank Comstock and Ned Washington |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | William T. Orr Jack Webb Jeffrey Hunter |
| Producers | Richard M. Bluel Joseph Dackow Lawrence Dobkin Jimmy Lydon |
| Editor | Byron Chudnow |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production companies | Apollo Productions Rancom Productions Inc. Temple Houston Company Warner Bros. Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 19, 1963 – April 2, 1964 |
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Temple Houston is an American Western television series starring Jeffrey Hunter as real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston. It ran for one season on NBC from 1963 to 1964. It is considered "the first attempt ... to produce an hour-long western series with the main character being an attorney in the formal sense."[1] Temple Houston was the only program which Jack Webb sold to a network during his ten months as the head of production at Warner Bros. Television.[2] It was also the lone series in which Hunter played a regular part.[3] The series' supporting cast features Jack Elam and Chubby Johnson.
- ^ Nevins, Frances M. "Westerns". Prime Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative. Robert M. Jarvis and Paul R. Joseph, Editors. Carolina Academic Press. 1998. p. 212-213
- ^ "Jack Webb at The Museum of Broadcast Communications". Archived from the original on 2013-08-22. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- ^ Jeffrey Hunter's Notable Television Appearances Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine