Tombstone Territory
| Tombstone Territory | |
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Pat Conway as Clay Hollister, 1958.
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| Genre | Western |
| Starring |
Pat Conway Richard Eastham |
| Narrated by | Richard Eastham |
| Theme music composer | William M. Backer |
| Opening theme | "Whistle Me Up a Memory" performed by William M. Backer |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 91 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Frederick W. Ziv |
| Producer(s) | Frank Pittman Andy White |
| Cinematography | Monroe P. Askins Curt Fetters Robert Hoffman |
| Editor(s) |
W. Duncan Mansfield Joseph Silver |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Ziv Television Programs |
| Distributor |
MGM Television Peter Rodgers Organization |
| Release | |
| Original network |
ABC (1957-1959) Syndication (1959-1960) |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | October 16, 1957 – July 8, 1960 |
Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959. The first season was sponsored by Bristol-Myers (Consumer Products) and the second season by Lipton (Tea/Soup) and Philip Morris (Marlboro Cigarettes). The third and final season aired in syndication from 1959 until 1960. The program was produced by Ziv Television, the company responsible for other 1950s hit TV series such as first-run syndicated Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol and NBC's Bat Masterson .
This program took place in the boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, one of the Old West's most notorious towns and the site of the shootout known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Located south of Tucson, Tombstone was then known by the sobriquet "the town too tough to die." The program's theme song, "Whistle Me Up a Memory", was written and performed by a New York City advertising writer, William M. Backer.
The series did not deal with real characters in the history of Tombstone in the 1880s, such as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, or the Clanton Gang. It was about fictional characters in the American Southwest. Conway played Sheriff Clay Hollister. Eastham, the only other actor besides Conway to appear in all the episodes, played Harris Claibourne, editor of The Tombstone Epitaph (an actual newspaper that still exists in limited form). Eastham also narrated the series in a deep baritone voice, describing each episode as an actual report from the newspaper's archives.
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