Cimarron Strip
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| Genre | Western |
| Created by | Christopher Knopf |
| Starring | Stuart Whitman |
| Theme music composer | Maurice Jarre |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 23 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Philip Leacock |
| Producer(s) | Douglas Benton Bernard McEveety Stuart Whitman (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Monroe P. Askins Harry Stradling, Jr. |
| Editor(s) | Donald W. Ernst Jack Kampschroer Danny B. Landres Howard A. Smith |
| Running time | 72 mins |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | Film 35mm 4:3 Color |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 7, 1967 – March 7, 1968 |
Cimarron Strip is a lavish American Western television series starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown. The series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke and aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. Cimarron Strip is one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the 1960s (the others are The Virginian and, for one season, Wagon Train), and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character in every episode. The series theme and pilot incidental music was written by Maurice Jarre, who also scored Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
The series is set in the late 1880s in the Cimarron Territory, which would become the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1890. For complex historical reasons, this rugged strip of land existed as a virtually ungoverned U.S. territory for several decades. It was sometimes called No Man's Land, with a reputation for lawlessness and vigilante activity. On the show, Marshal Jim Crown is trying to bring order to the region before its political status is finally resolved.
The Cherokee Outlet across the Cimarron River was the last free homestead land in America. It was leased and controlled by cattlemen, and the newly arriving farmers were expecting authorities in Washington to send news that they would be given rights to the land, for which they had been campaigning. U.S. Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman), who led a rather wild life and had cleaned up Abilene, was assigned to the town of Cimarron. He arrives to find that the sheriff has resigned, leaving Crown on his own to settle the increasing unrest caused by the news he brings, that the cattlemen's leases have been revoked and a final decision on the land is postponed indefinitely. With no sheriff and no support from Army troops, Crown is on his own to keep law and order in this borderland between the Kansas Territory and Indian Territory.
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