Custer (1967)

Genre

Westerns on television

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 17 episodes

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1960s television series follows Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer during his military campaigns in the American West. It was taken off the air amid protests that it portrayed Custer in a falsely heroic light.

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What happens

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. Criticizing the series as "glamorizing Custer," a concerted protest headed by the Tribal Indians Land Rights Association successfully halted broadcast of the series under the FCC fairness doctrine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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