Lancer (TV series)

Lancer
Andrew Duggan and Elizabeth Baur, 1968
Genre	Western
Created by	Samuel A. Peeples
Directed by	Robert Butler
Starring	James Stacy Wayne Maunder Andrew Duggan Elizabeth Baur
Theme music composer	Jerome Moross
Composer(s)	Jerome Moross Arthur Morton
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	51
Production
Producer(s)	Sam Wanamaker (pilot episode) Alan A. Armer
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	48 mins.
Production company(s)	20th Century Fox Television
Release
Original network	CBS
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 24, 1968 (1968-09-24) – June 23, 1970 (1970-06-23)

Lancer is an American western series that aired Tuesdays at 7:30 pm (EST) on CBS from September 24, 1968, to June 23, 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.

Duggan stars as the less than admirable Murdoch Lancer, the patriarch of the Lancer family. Stacy appears as half-Mexican gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer. Wayne Maunder was cast as Scott Lancer, the educated older son (though he is younger than Stacy) and a veteran of the Union Army, in contrast to Stacy's role of former gunslinger. Paul Brinegar also appeared as Jelly Hoskins, a series regular from season two after making a one off guest appearance during the first season. Elizabeth Baur (who later replaced Babara Anderson in Ironside from season five to eight) also was a series regular cast member as Murdoch Lancer's ward Teresa O'Brien.

Guest stars included Joe Don Baker, Scott Brady, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Sam Elliott, Bruce Dern, Kevin Hagen, Ron Howard, Wright King, Cloris Leachman, George Macready, Warren Oates, Stefanie Powers, Tom Selleck, and William Tannen.