Michael Ansara - starring in "Law Of The Plainsman" [View All]

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Premiering in October, 1959, the weekly TV series recounted the exploits of Sam Buckhart, born among the Apache Indians but eventually educated at Harvard University and who became a Deputy U.S. Marshal in the New Mexico territory of the 1880's. In the series, he trained under Marshal Andy Morrison in Santa Fe and lived in a rooming house run by Martha Commager along with an orphaned 8-year-old girl he rescued.

The Buchhart character originated and spun-off from two episodes of The Rifleman TV Show: The Indian and The Raid.

The very charismatic Michael Ansara played the lead role. This was one of my favorite TV shows growing up in early 60's. Anyone from that era who remembers this western, one that had a positive image of Native Americans? Of course it would have been better for the role to have gone to a real Native American, but unfortunately that was Hollywood of the 1950s and 60s (and to a certain extent today, too).