Custer

TV Show
TitleCuster
User score

6

Release dateSep 6, 1967
Release date of last episodeDec 28, 1967
GenreWestern, Drama
Production countryUS
Series statusEnded
Seasons count1 (List of episodes)
Episodes count17
Run time60 min.

Custer, also known as The Legend of Custer, is a 17-episode military-western television series which ran on ABC from September 6 to December 27, 1967, with Wayne Maunder in the starring role of then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. During the American Civil War, Custer had risen to the rank of major general, the youngest in the Union Army. He was demoted after the war during force reductions to the rank of Captain, but was reinstated in 1866 as a Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Many of the soldiers in the regiment were derelicts, former Confederates, or even criminals. The series was cancelled before the script timeline would have reached the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, where all perished on June 25, 1876, in a Sioux Indian ambush, Robert F. Simon played Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair and much of his methodology of fighting Indians. Slim Pickens starred as a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante appeared as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played Sergeant James Bustard, a former Confederate soldier. Grant Woods appeared as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's The Deputy, appeared in the episode "Spirit Woman" in the role of a medicine man.

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S1.E17 ∙ Pursued

Dec 28, 1967

S1.E16 ∙ The Gauntlet

Dec 20, 1967

S1.E15 ∙ Spirit Woman

Dec 13, 1967

S1.E14 ∙ Dangerous Prey

Dec 6, 1967

S1.E13 ∙ Blazing Arrows

Nov 29, 1967

S1.E12 ∙ Death Hunt

Nov 22, 1967

S1.E11 ∙ Under Fire

Nov 15, 1967

S1.E10 ∙ Desperate Mission

Nov 8, 1967

S1.E9 ∙ Breakout

Nov 1, 1967

S1.E8 ∙ Suspicion

Oct 18, 1967

S1.E7 ∙ War Lance and Saber

Oct 11, 1967

S1.E6 ∙ Massacre

Oct 4, 1967

S1.E5 ∙ To the Death

Sep 27, 1967

S1.E4 ∙ Glory Rider

Sep 20, 1967

S1.E3 ∙ Accused

Sep 13, 1967

S1.E2 ∙ Episode 2

Oct 6, 1967

S1.E1 ∙ Sabers in the Sun

Sep 6, 1967

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