The Monroes

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The Monroes was a 26-segment Western television series which ran on ABC during the 1966-1967 season – the story of five orphans trying to survive as a family on the frontier in the area about what is now Grand Teton National Park near Jackson in northwestern Wyoming. Michael Anderson, Jr., then twenty-four, played the oldest brother, Clayt Monroe. Barbara Hershey, at eighteen, starred as sister Kathy Monroe. Keith Schultz and his brother Kevin Schultz played twins Jefferson (Big Twin) Monroe and Fennimore (Little Twin) Monroe, respectively. Tammy Locke played the youngest sibling, red-haired Amy Monroe.

The Monroes premiered at 8 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, September 7, 1966, with the episode entitled “The Intruders”, with Russ Conway appearing as Albert Monroe, the father of the Monroe family. “Wild Dog of the Tetons” aired on October 5. “Lost in the Wilderness” ran on November 30, and “Gold Fever” aired on December 14. The series was unable to develop sufficient audience to remain on the air, and its concluding episode, “The Ghost of Paradox”, aired on March 15, 1967.

Though it benefited from the lead-in of ABC’s popular ‘Batman’ series, ‘The Monroes’ faced stiff competition for the last hour of NBC’s ‘The Virginian’ and CBS’s second half of ‘Lost in Space’ and the full showing of ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’.