The Tycoon (TV series)
| The Tycoon | |
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Brennan and Van Williams from the 1964 premiere episode
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| Created by | Charles Isaacs (associate of Danny Thomas) |
| Starring |
Walter Brennan Jerome Cowan Van Williams George Lindsey |
| Composer(s) | Les Baxter |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Danny Thomas Productions (filmed at Desilu) |
| Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | Color |
| Original release | September 15, 1964 – April 27, 1965 |
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| Related shows | O.K. Crackerby! |
| Walter Brennan | |
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| Notes | |
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(1) Brennan's second network series The Tycoon on ABC failed to attract the audience needed to survive in the 1964–1965 season though the quality of the program was never in question. (2) Brennan followed his role as the rustic Grandpa Amos McCoy from ABC's The Real McCoys with businessman Walter Andrews, the retired chairman of the board still meddling in company business but acting often as a philanthropist. (3) The first episode of The Tycoon was entitled "Horatio Alger Again", a reference to the "rags-to-riches" short story writer Horatio Alger. |
(1) Brennan's second network series The Tycoon on ABC failed to attract the audience needed to survive in the 1964–1965 season though the quality of the program was never in question.
(2) Brennan followed his role as the rustic Grandpa Amos McCoy from ABC's The Real McCoys with businessman Walter Andrews, the retired chairman of the board still meddling in company business but acting often as a philanthropist.
The Tycoon is a 32-episode American sitcom television series broadcast by ABC. It starred Walter Brennan as the fictitious businessman Walter Andrews, similar to his birth name of Walter Andrew Brennan. As chairman of the board of the Thunder Corporation that he founded but no longer actively runs, Brennan plays an eccentric and cantankerous millionaire (when such persons were much fewer in number) with a common touch who helps promising persons in need. The series aired with new episodes at 9 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday from September 15, 1964, until April 27, 1965. It continued in reruns until September 7, 1965. The program did not develop sufficient audience, presumably because viewers may have preferred the versatile Brennan as the bucolic Grandpa Amos McCoy in his 1957-1963 ABC and CBS sitcom The Real McCoys. Oddly, The Tycoon has the same name as an episode of The Real McCoys also called "The Tycoon," which aired four years earlier on August 23, 1960.
After The Tycoon floundered, Brennan returned to ABC two years later in a more homespun role, a western The Guns of Will Sonnett with costar Dack Rambo.
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