Underplayed Gems

Empire (1962)

Empire poster
Genre
western, drama
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 32 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This 1960s series follows a powerful ranch family in New Mexico as they manage a massive cattle operation. It focuses on the patriarch and his sons dealing with the challenges of running a vast empire.

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What happens

Empire is an hour-long Western television series set on a 1960s 500,000-acre (2,000 km2) ranch in New Mexico, starring Richard Egan, Terry Moore, Ryan O'Neal and Charles Bronson. It ran on NBC from September 25, 1962, to May 14, 1963. After NBC cancelled the original series due to low ratings, a later version was made to rename it to Redigo (instead of having a 2nd season), truncated from one-hour episodes to half hour episodes, in black and white instead of color, and again starring Egan as Redigo. That version ran only for a partial season. However, even after NBC cancelled the original series in 1963 due to low ratings, ABC reran the show on Sundays, 7:30-8:30pm, on the partial part of the 1963-64 network television season, on Spring 1964. In the UK the series was shown in the London ITV area (Associated-Rediffusion) under the title Big G, from Jun 12th 1963 to Jan 16th 1964. In 1965 Columbia Pictures released the pilot episode as a film called This Rugged Land outside the US. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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