Barbary Coast (TV)
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| Genre | Western/Spy-fi |
| Created by | Douglas Heyes |
| Written by | Howard Beck Michael Philip Butler Cy Chermak James Doherty William D. Gordon Douglas Heyes Harold Livingston Stephen Lord |
| Directed by |
Hal DeWindt Alexander Grasshoff Don McDougall Herb Wallerstein Don Weis |
| Starring |
William Shatner Dennis Cole Doug McClure |
| Composer(s) | John Andrew Tartaglia |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (+1 TV movie) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Cy Chermak |
| Producer(s) | Douglas Heyes William Cairncross (assistant) |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Editor(s) | James Doherty William D. Gordon |
| Running time | 45 mins. |
| Production company(s) | Francy Productions Paramount Network Television |
| Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | May 4, 1975 – January 9, 1976 |
Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976.
Barbary Coast was inspired by a similar 19th-century spy series, The Wild Wild West, and like the earlier program, Barbary Coast mixed the genres of Western and secret agent drama.
Barbary Coast features the adventures of 19th century government agent Jeff Cable (played by William Shatner), and his pal, conman and gambler Cash ("Cash makes no enemies") Conover (Doug McClure; played by Dennis Cole in the pilot) who is the owner of the Golden Gate Casino. This was Shatner's first attempt at a live-action series since Star Trek (also produced by Paramount Television).
In their battle against various criminals and foreign spies, Cable and Conover operated out of the latter's saloon and casino located on San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. Like Wild Wild West's Artemus Gordon, Cable frequently donned disguises in the course of his investigations.
The producers modeled the show's Byzantine plotlines/conspiracies on the Mission: Impossible paradigm (in fact, they hired a number of Mission: Impossible's writers). Other regulars on the series included recurring Wild Wild West villain actor Richard Kiel as Moose Moran and Dave Turner as Thumbs.
The pilot episode, an The ABC Sunday Night Movie, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Art Direction for the art director Jack De Shields and set decorator Reg Allen.
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