Title: Fort Laramie
Type: Western drama
Length: 30 minutes
Broadcast history: Jan. 22, 1956 - Oct. 28, 1956 CBS. Sundays at 5:30 PM.
Cast:
Raymond Burr as Lee Quince
Vic Perrin as Sgt. Gorce
Harry Bartell as Lt. Seiberts
Jack Moyles as Maj. Daggett
This western was produced by the same man that produced "Gunsmoke" (Norman Macdonnell) but was a more relaxed and less intense program. . It focused as much or more on atmosphere and mood than it did on action and violence." The producer saw the show as "a monument to ordinary men who lived in extraordinary times" whose enemies were "the rugged, uncharted country, the heat, the cold, disease, boredom, and perhaps last of all, hostile Indians."
Forty episodes were produced. Raymond Burr went from obscurity to stardom the next year when he took the title role in TV as "Perry Mason
Announcer:
Dan Cubberly
Source:
On the Air - John Dunning