Territorial Men
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Brenda Vaccaro as Sara Yarnell in a promotional photo for Sara
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| Genre | Western |
| Created by | Michael Gleason |
| Starring | Brenda Vaccaro |
| Opening theme | "Sara's Theme" |
| Composer(s) | Lee Holdridge |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 plus television movie |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | George Eckstein |
| Producer(s) | Richard Collins |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Universal Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | February 13 – May 7, 1976 |
Sara is a 1976 United States Western television series starring Brenda Vaccaro centering around a schoolteacher in Colorado in the 1870s. It aired from February 13 to May 7, 1976 on CBS.
After Sara ended, a television movie, Territorial Men, compiled from footage shot for the weekly series, was broadcast on July 30, 1976.
In the 1870s, young, unmarried schoolteacher Sara Yarnell decides to leave behind her dull, predictable life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and move to the Western frontier, where she can face new challenges. Answering a newspaper advertisement for a schoolteacher, she settles in Independence, Colorado, where she becomes the only teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. Strong-willed, she fights fiercely against ignorance and prejudice that she encounters in Independence, much to the dismay of some of the more conservative local residents, who had thought they were getting a far more passive schoolteacher. She also believes strongly that education is a necessity and a right – one of her first actions after arriving in Independence is to demand new readers and a new outhouse for the school – putting her at odds with local residents who view it as an unnecessary luxury. Her stances and actions have differing effects on the various people in her life in Independence. They offend her landlady, Martha Higgins, and draw mixed responses from schoolboard members Emmett Ferguson, Claude Barstow, and George Bailey, who also is a banker in the town. However, her principles and goals receive the approval of the town's newspaper editor, Martin Pope, and of Sara's friend Julia Bailey, who also is George's wife, as well as of Sara's students, which include Martha's daughters Debbie and Emma and George and Julia's son Georgie.
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