The Road West

The Road West
Barry Sullivan as Ben Pride
Genre	Western
Written by	Richard Fielder Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Directed by	Vincent McEveety Paul Stanley
Starring	Barry Sullivan Kathryn Hays Andrew Prine Glenn Corbett Brenda Scott Kelly Corcoran Charles Seel
Theme music composer	Leonard Rosenman
Composer(s)	Leonard Rosenman
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	29
Production
Producer(s)	Norman Macdonnell
Running time	60 mins. (approx)
Production company(s)	Universal Television
Release
Original network	NBC
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 12, 1966 – August 28, 1967

The Road West is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 12, 1966 to May 1, 1967 for twenty-nine episodes with rebroadcasts continuing until August 28. The hour-long series, sponsored by Kraft Foods, aired in the 9 p.m. Eastern Monday time slot opposite The Andy Griffith Show and Family Affair on CBS and the crime drama Felony Squad and the prime time soap opera Peyton Place on ABC.Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall originally alternated with the series as monthly specials.

The Road West stars Barry Sullivan as Benjamin "Ben" Pride, the patriarch of a pioneer family in Kansas. The series also stars Kathryn Hays as Elizabeth Pride, Ben's second wife; Andrew Prine as Ben's 30-year-old son, Timothy "Tim" Pride, and Brenda Scott as the daughter, Midge Pride. Prine and Scott, who played brother and sister in the series, had been briefly married in real life prior to the debut of the program. Other cast members were Kelly Corcoran as son Kip Pride; Glenn Corbett as Chance Reynolds, Elizabeth's brother; and Charles Seel as Tom Pride, Ben's father and the grandfather of the family.

The Prides left Springfield, Ohio where the family had lived for several generations and moved west shortly after the American Civil War. Ben, a widower, marries Elizabeth Reynolds, played by Hays, who is twenty-one years his junior and only three years older than stepson Tim, played by Prine.