Custer (TV series)

Custer
Wayne Maunder as Custer.
Starring
Composers
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes17
Production
ProducerFrank Glicksman
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseSeptember 6 (1967-09-06) –
December 27, 1967 (1967-12-27)
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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. Criticizing the series as "glamorizing Custer," a concerted protest headed by the Tribal Indians Land Rights Association successfully halted broadcast of the series under the FCC fairness doctrine.[1]

  1. ^ Tahmahkera, Dustin. Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014, p. 11