Word: lancer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LANCER (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Murdoch lancer (Andrew Duggan), owner of a vast cattle ranch in Northern California, and his two sons fight off land grabbers in this 1870 vintage western. Premiere...
...among others, were postponed-but not dropped-in favor of less brutal installments. On the West Coast, where next season's shows are already in the works, two It Takes a Thief scripts involving assassination have just been chucked. Alan Armor of CBS's new western, Lancer, has edited out one shooting and one ambush from his premiere show, and the producers of Gunsmoke, Get Smart and The Name of the Game have ordered re-evaluation of all scenarios. Bruce Geller, producer of Mission: Impossible and Mannix, says: "We're going to explore other areas of conflict...
Hrundi V. Bakshi is an Indian actor who was imported from New Delhi to play a heroic bugler in a new Bengal Lancer-Gunga Din-style movie being shot in California. This is his big chance, but he blows it-first with his bugle, when he wrecks a scene by continuing to blat out battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood...
Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote the article for the July issue of Commentary magazine, explains that he was given an opportunity to read the original, unrevised edition of Manchester's book, then tentatively titled Death of Lancer (Kennedy's Secret Service code name was "Lancer...
...from being simply a detailed and objective chronicle of the assassination," Epstein writes, Death of Lancer was "a mythopoeic melodrama organized around the theme of the struggle for power between two men, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson . . . [But] the characters bearing these names in Death of Lancer have at best a questionable relation to the real persons themselves and at worst no relation at all outside the heated imagination of the author...