| | '''''Tales of Wells Fargo''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[western]] [[television]] series starring [[Oklahoma]] native Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson (1923-2013) that aired on [[NBC]] for five and a half seasons from March 18, 1957, to June 2, 1962. | | '''''Tales of Wells Fargo''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[western]] [[television]] series starring [[Oklahoma]] native Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson (1923-2013) that aired on [[NBC]] for five and a half seasons from March 18, 1957, to June 2, 1962. |
| − | Produced by Revue Studios (now [[Universal Studios|Universal Television]]), the series was set in the 1870s and 1880s and filmed in Old Tucson, [[Arizona]]. It aired in a half-hour format with Robertson cast as Wells Fargo investigative agent James W. "Jim" Hardie until its final season when it expanded to an hour, switched to color, and focused on Hardie's ranch in fictitious Gloribee, near [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. In the last season, William Demarest (1892-1983) in the role of Jeb Gaine, Virginia Christine (1920-1996) as Ovie Swenson, and Jack Ging (born 1931), as Beau McCloud, joined the cast.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050066/|title=Tales of Wells Fargo|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 12, 2020}}</ref> Demarest was cast in twenty-five episodes; Christine and Ging, fourteen episodes each. | + | Produced by Revue Studios (now [[Universal Studios|Universal Television]]), the series was set in the 1870s and 1880s and filmed in Old Tucson, [[Arizona]]. It aired in a half-hour format with Robertson cast as Wells Fargo investigative agent James W. "Jim" Hardie until its final season when it expanded to an hour, switched to color, and focused on Hardie's ranch in fictitious Gloribee, near [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. In the last season, William Demarest (1892-1983) in the role of Jeb Gaine, Virginia Christine (1920-1996) as Ovie Swenson, and Jack Ging (1931-2022), as Beau McCloud, joined the cast.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050066/|title=Tales of Wells Fargo|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=February 12, 2020}}</ref> Demarest was cast in twenty-five episodes; Christine and Ging, fourteen episodes each. |