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==Borax==

==Borax==

Under the ''Death Valley Days'' title, the program was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, which during the program's run changed its name to U.S. Borax Company following a merger. [[Advertising]] for the company's best-known products, 20 Mule Team Borax (a laundry additive), Borateem (a laundry detergent), and Boraxo, a powdered hand soap, were often done by the program's host. Death Valley was the scene of much of the company's borax mining operations. The Rio Tinto Group has restored the series for 21st century rebroadcasts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219090438/http://www.riotinto.com/whoweare/timeline.asp|title=Timeline – Rio Tinto|date=December 19, 2010}}</ref> and now owns the TV series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.24hgold.com/english/Newsflow-rio-tinto-restoring-old-tv-series-death-valley-days-.aspx?id=5899765940H11690|title=Rio Tinto restoring old TV series ‘Death Valley Days’|publisher=24hgold.com}}</ref>

Under the ''Death Valley Days'' title, the program was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, which during the program's run changed its name to U.S. Borax Company following a merger. [[Advertising]] for the company's best-known products, 20 Mule Team Borax (a laundry additive), Borateem (a laundry detergent), and Boraxo, a powdered hand soap, were often done by the program's host. Death Valley was the scene of much of the company's borax mining operations. The Rio Tinto Group has restored the series for 21st century rebroadcasts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219090438/http://www.riotinto.com/whoweare/timeline.asp|title=Timeline – Rio Tinto|date=December 19, 2010}}</ref> and now owns the TV series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.24hgold.com/english/Newsflow-rio-tinto-restoring-old-tv-series-death-valley-days-.aspx?id=5899765940H11690|title=Rio Tinto restoring old TV series ‘Death Valley Days'’|publisher=24hgold.com}}</ref>

''Death Valley Days'' is by far the most successful syndicated television western series, the most successful television western ever in the half-hour format, and one of the longest-running and most successful of all scripted syndicated series. The end of the series, coupled with the end of ''Bonanza'' in 1973 and ''Gunsmoke'' in 1975, marked the demise of the traditional western in American television; by the middle 1970s, although western elements were still fairly common in modern series, such as ''Little House on the Prairie,'' pure western series were a thing of the past.

''Death Valley Days'' is by far the most successful syndicated television western series, the most successful television western ever in the half-hour format, and one of the longest-running and most successful of all scripted syndicated series. The end of the series, coupled with the end of ''Bonanza'' in 1973 and ''Gunsmoke'' in 1975, marked the demise of the traditional western in American television; by the middle 1970s, although western elements were still fairly common in modern series, such as ''Little House on the Prairie,'' pure western series were a thing of the past.

the ==Guest stars==

==Guest stars==

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{{split section|List of Death Valley Days guest stars|discuss=Talk:Death_Valley_Days#List_of_Death_Valley_Days_guest_stars|date=October 2019}}

[[File:James Caan Karyn Kupcinet Roy Thinnes Death Valley Days 1963.jpg|thumb|[[James Caan]], [[Karyn Kupcinet]] and [[Roy Thinnes]] in episode "Shadow of Violence" (1963)]]

[[File:James Caan Karyn Kupcinet Roy Thinnes Death Valley Days 1963.jpg|thumb|[[James Caan]], [[Karyn Kupcinet]] and [[Roy Thinnes]] in episode "Shadow of Violence" (1963)]]