Young Pioneers | |
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Genre | Drama Western |
Based on | Let the Hurricane Roar Free Land by Rose Wilder Lane |
Screenplay by | Blanche Hanalis |
Directed by | Michael O'Herlihy |
Starring | Linda Purl Roger Kern |
Music by | Laurence Rosenthal |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Ed Friendly |
Producer | Ed Friendly |
Production locations | Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, Los Angeles, California Southern Arizona, Arizona |
Cinematography | Robert L. Morrison |
Editor | Allan LaMastra |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Production company | ABC Circle Films |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | March 1, 1976 |
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Young Pioneers is a 1976 American Western television film which aired in March 1976 on ABC.[1] Elements of novels Let the Hurricane Roar and Free Land by Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) were used as the basis for the movie,[2] with Roger Kern and Linda Purl starring as the focal characters David and Molly Beaton.[3] Although produced as a TV series pilot by ABC Circle Films[4] and ranked #7 in the Nielsen ratings for the week it aired,[5] the movie was not immediately picked up by ABC as a series.[6] A second pilot attempt was made in December 1976 with Young Pioneers' Christmas,[7] but ranked lower at #37 in the Nielsen ratings.[8] In 1978 The Young Pioneers (miniseries) was broadcast.[9]