The Oregon Trail (TV series)
| The Oregon Trail | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Samuel A. Peeples Michael Gleason |
| Written by | E. Jack Neuman Nicholas Corea |
| Directed by | Bill Bixby |
| Starring |
Rod Taylor Andrew Stevens Darlene Carr Charles Napier Tony Becker Gina Marie Smika |
| Theme music composer | Danny Darst Rod Taylor Charles Napier |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | One-half |
| No. of episodes | 14 (6 not aired) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Carl Vitale Michael Gleason Richard Collins |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Universal Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | Color |
| Original release | September 21 – November 30, 1977 |
The Oregon Trail is a western television series that aired in 1977, starring Rod Taylor as the widower Evan Thorpe, who leaves his Illinois farm in 1842 to take the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. The show also stars Andrew Stevens, Tony Becker, and Gina Marie Smika as Thorpe's children. Darleen Carr stars as Margaret Devlin, one of the passengers on the wagon train, and Charles Napier portrays Luther Sprague, a frontier scout recruited by Thorpe. The series was filmed in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
The following episodes aired in the US, on NBC:
NBC cancelled the show after six episodes, but the remaining seven episodes were later aired on BBC 2 in the UK, and the entire series was shown in the UK on BBC1, from November 1977 to January 1978.
The series followed another western-themed program, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams on the NBC Wednesday schedule. The Oregon Trail aired at 9 p.m. Eastern opposite the CBS Wednesday Night Movie and ABC's detective series, Charlie's Angels. Michael Gleason was the executive producer; Richard Collins, the supervising producer; and Carl Vitale, the producer for NBC Universal Television. Bill Bixby directed two episodes. The series pilot aired on January 10, 1976. Terry Wilson (Bill Hawks in Wagon Train) served as production supervisor on the series, and series stars Rod Taylor and Charles Napier co-wrote the theme song, "Oregon Bound", with singer Danny Darst.
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