Branded Cancellation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_United_States_network_television_schedule

Branded was on at 8:30 up against two hour shows that started at 8. Plus, it was wedged in between two hour shows also on NBC. Not a good slot.

My problem with the show was That McCord did not WANT to be found innocent as he was protecting his senile general Reid. So he was never really on a quest to be found innocent.

I read on a TV series website that the series was consistently in the top 10 and was in the top 20 when it was canceled. It was up against "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The FBI," two more popular hour-long shows.

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Hello eagleak,

Chuck Connors is one of my favorite "classic old west" actors. I have also heard Chuck could be "difficult" sometimes, but he stayed busy right up to the end. He would often get up at 4am, exercise, have a small breakfast and leave for work on "The Rifleman" and "Branded" and often would not be finished until sometimes 10pm. He supported 4 sons from 1950 'til 1992 (c.o.d. pneumonia due to small cell lung cancer, one of the worst types). I don't know how many yrs he smoked but obviously too long. Who wouldn't be crabby?

I bought the whole set of "Branded" and "The Rifleman" from www.timelessvideo.com. It plays very well with the ads cut out; if you get them, keep them well protected.

Chuck's kids: Mike in 1950; Jeff in 1952; Steven in 1953 and Kevin from 1956 to 2005. Although Chuck had already died and the boys' mother also, his youngest son, Kevin had been sickly, weak and had problems w/his immune system throughout his life (I would guess leukemia). Kevin died in 2005 at age 49. But Chuck loved all his boys very much and they loved him, during the time that Chuck was alive.

There are lots of Web sites on the Internet about Chuck Connors; one of the best is www.ourchuckconnors.com with beautiful pictures covering his Boston Celtics career and his Brooklyn Dodger career, his acting career and quite a few pictures of his family also. There is www.riflemansrifle.com, where you can purchase a gun like Lucas carried in "The Rifleman." The other real good one is www.riflemanconnors.com is a cool Web site about a lot of Chuck's work.

Johnny Crawford, Mark McCain, has a 30's, 40's dance band in LA. He is quite the character, still living, circa 1946.

Have some fun browsing around the Internet about Chuck Connors, he almost "made it" (as an A-list actor) after "The Big Country" you're a CC fan, you'll find out that he wasn't such a bad guy. Good luck finding something CC starred in or his interviews, (youtube.com). Many CC items to buy online also.

Look for my book (untitled right now) about Chuck Connors personal life.

Thank you very much~~
Big CC Fan

Good point. I believe an hour show would have worked better.

Connors and Branded producer Fenady were good friends, so I doubt there was much of a falling out that ended the series...I recall when I was at Chuck's home one day, around the time he was doing Branded, that he made a comment to the effect that he was tired of the smell of horsesh*t and would like to try something else. Alas he was sterotyped.

Uh there's no way they axed that show because in was a half hour.

There could be some truth to it. Chuck got himself kicked off the series WEREWOLF because of his demands for an outrageous raise. Too bad, too, his character Captain Janos Skorzeny was the best part of the show.