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1963 American TV series or program

Temple Houston is an American Western television series starring Jeffrey Hunter as real-life 19th century Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston. It ran for one season on NBC from 1963 to 1964. It is considered "the first attempt ... to produce an hour-long western series with the main character being an attorney in the formal sense."^[1]Temple Houston was the only program which Jack Webb sold to a network during his ten months as the head of production at Warner Bros. Television.^[2] It was also the lone series in which Hunter played a regular part.^[3] The series' supporting cast features Jack Elam and Chubby Johnson.

Plot

Temple Houston is based loosely on the career of the real-life circuit-riding lawyer Temple Lea Houston (1860–1905), son of the more famous Sam Houston. Little, however, binds all the episodes together under a common framework. The series variously cast the c The Sergeant Was a Lady!