Underplayed Gems

The Young Pioneers (1978)

The Young Pioneers poster
Directed by
Irving J. Moore
Genre
drama television series, historical television series, Westerns on television
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a 1970s Western television series about a young married couple starting a new life as homesteaders in the Dakota Territory in the 1870s. It follows their struggles and joys as they build a home in the rugged American frontier.

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What happens

The Young Pioneers was a trial-run American Broadcasting Company Western television series about young newlyweds who settle in the Dakota Territory during the 1870s. If the first three episodes had received good ratings the series may have found a place on the network's fall lineup. The series was based on the plot of Rose Wilder Lane's 1933 novel Let the Hurricane Roar, which was reissued as Young Pioneers though the main characters names came from her novel Free Land. In March 1975, the television film Young Pioneers was watched by 40 million viewers, so in December 1975 a second film Young Pioneers' Christmas continued the story of homesteaders Molly and David Beaton, and served as a pilot for a planned ABC series. The Young Pioneers series aired on Sundays at 7 p.m. The first episode was a two-hour movie, followed by two sixty-minute episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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