Word: wyatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Invitation to a Gunfighter, with Hugh ("Wyatt Earp") O'Brien as a Civil War soldier who comes home to find his property confiscated...
Shotgun in hand, six-shooters at his sides, Wyatt Earp (rhymes with burp) rode coolly this week into a Dodge City dirt street crackling with the bullets of the Old West's 30 top gunmen, hired as killers by two feuding stagecoach lines. He rode on the highest saddle in TV-third place (after the Ed Sullivan Show and / Love Lucy) in the latest Trendex popularity ratings for all U.S. network television...
...season-and independents are hopefully breaking in 50 other contenders. Among the forthcoming shows: CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel, ABC's The Texan, The Californians, Oklahoma Kid, NBC's The Wagon Train, Pony Express. ABC's half-hour Lije and Legend of Wyatt Earp (8:30 p.m.) is at the center of a solid two-hour Western bloc that enables the network to dominate Tuesday evening viewing...
...Children. Says Wyatt Earp Producer Robert Sisk: "Earp gets slapped down occasionally. He's a very human person." As its bible for Frederick Hazlitt Brerinan's scripts, the Earp show uses Stuart N. Lake's biography, whose critics may have nicked it (said one: "Fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw") but have riot killed it as a major sourcebook for Westerns since 1931. Says Sisk: "We've got to slice the truth pretty close to make it last, but we stick closely to the biographical details...
...portrayed by Actor O'Brian, 31, onetime Marine drill instructor, Wyatt Earp now rides herd on the youngsters, makes them eat their cereal (Cheerios) and brush their teeth (with Gleem). His impeccable dress-frock coat, striped pants, silk vest, black sombrero-is a good example for the junior blue-jeans set ("Mothers love me"). Western buffs approve of his resemblance to the real Earp (though he omits the handlebar mustache) and his ability to handle such firearms as Earp's long-barreled Buntline Special with authentic eélan-he is perhaps the only regular Western type...