Laramie

Laramie was an American Western television series aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr. as Andy Sherman. The story was about two brothers and a drifter who come together to run a stagecoach stop for the Great Central Overland Mail. The series ran for four seasons and is considered by some to be one of the best family-oriented westerns of its time.

After the first season, Hoagy Carmichael decided not to return, tired of the demands of filming a weekly episode. His character was written out with the explanation that he accompanied Andy to boarding school in St. Louis. Andy, however, would appear in a couple of episodes that second season. To restore the chemistry of the original cast, as the third season began, Spring Byington and Dennis Holmes joined the cast as Miss Daisy Cooper and Mike Williams.

When the series ended, Robert Fuller went straight to the television series Wagon Train, where he replaced lookalike Robert Horton, who'd quit the show, as the scout.
From: Wikipedia.org




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