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Nichols (1971)

Nichols poster
Directed by
Peter Tewksbury, Jeremy Kagan, Paul Bogart, Ivan Dixon
Genre
Westerns on television
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 24 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Set in a small Arizona town in 1914, this series follows a sheriff who drives a motorcycle and car instead of a horse. He avoids using guns and tries to solve problems without violence.

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What happens

Nichols (also known as James Garner as Nichols) is a Western television series starring James Garner. It was first broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971–72 season. Set in the fictional town of Nichols, Arizona, Nichols differed from traditional Western series. The time period was 1914, at the beginning of the motorized era and well after the decline of the "Old West". The main character, a sheriff also named Nichols, rode on a motorcycle and in an automobile rather than on the traditional horse. Nichols did not carry a firearm and was generally opposed to the use of violence to solve problems, preferring other means. Margot Kidder played his love interest, a barmaid named Ruth. Although Nichols' first name was never spoken aloud, his army induction papers, seen in the opening moments of the pilot episode, gave "Frank" as his first name (also the first name of series creator Frank Pierson). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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