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Lancer is a 1968-1970 Western television series on CBS, which starred Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.

Stacy (born 1936) appears as half-Mexican gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer. Duggan plays Murdoch Lancer, a less wholly admirable patriarch than Lorne Greene's Ben Cartwright of Bonanza. Wayne Maunder (born 1938), formerly Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer on the short-lived ABC series Custer, was cast as Scott Lancer, the educated older son (though he is younger than Stacy) and a veteran of the Union Army, in contrast to Stacy's role of former gunslinger. Paul Brinegar, formerly the cook Wishbone on CBS's Rawhide, also appeared as Jelly Hoskins, a series regular.

Guest stars included Joe Don Baker, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Sam Elliott, Bruce Dern, actor/director Ron Howard, Cloris Leachman, Scott Marlowe, Warren Oates, Stefanie Powers, and Dub Taylor. Frank McHugh appeared as Charlie Wingate in a 1969 episode entitled "The Fix-It Man", the handyman role that he had also played in the 1964-1965 season on the ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show.

Lancer lasted for fifty-one hour-long episodes shot in color. The program was rerun on CBS during the summer of 1971. The episode entitled "Zee" with Stefanie Powers earned scriptwriter Andy Lewis the Western Writers of America "Spur Award", the first ever designated for a television script.

Cast

James Stacy as Johnny Madrid Lancer
Andrew Duggan as Murdoch Lancer
Wayne Maunder as Scott Lancer
Paul Brinegar as Jelly Hoskins

Episode Guide

Season 1
 Episode 1: The High Riders Original Air Date—24 September 1968
Faced with continual raids by the Pardee gang, California rancher Murdoch Lancer seeks the help of his estranged sons: dapper Bostonian Scott Lancer and border-town gunslinger Johnny Madrid.

Episode 2: Blood Rock Original Air Date—1 October 1968

Episode 3: Chase a Wild Horse Original Air Date—8 October 1968

Episode 4: Foley Original Air Date—15 October 1968

Episode 5: The Lawman Original Air Date—22 October 1968

Episode 6: Julie Original Air Date—29 October 1968

Episode 7: The Prodigal Original Air Date—12 November 1968

Episode 8: Jelly Original Air Date—19 November 1968

Episode 9: The Last Train for Charlie Poe Original Air Date—26 November 1968
Episode 10: Glory Original Air Date—10 December 1968

Episode 11: The Heart of Pony Alice Original Air Date—17 December 1968

Episode 12: The Escape Original Air Date—31 December 1968

Episode 13: The Wedding Original Air Date—7 January 1969

Episode 14: Death Bait
Original Air Date—14 January 1969

Episode 15: The Black McGloins Original Air Date—21 January 1969

Episode 16: Yesterday's Vendetta Original Air Date—28 January 1969

Episode 17: Warburton's Edge Original Air Date—4 February 1969

Episode 18: The Fix-It Man Original Air Date—11 February 1969

Episode 19: Angel Day and Her Sunshine Girls Original Air Date—25 February 1969

Episode 20: The Great Humbug Original Air Date—4 March 1969

Episode 21: Juniper's Camp Original Air Date—11 March 1969

Episode 22: The Knot Original Air Date—18 March 1969

Episode 23: The Man Without a Gun Original Air Date—25 March 1969

Episode 24: Child of Rock and Sunlight Original Air Date—1 April 1969

Episode 25: The Measure of a Man Original Air Date—8 April 1969

Episode 26: Devil's Blessing Original Air Date—22 April 1969

Season 2
Episode
 1: Blind Man's Bluff
Original Air Date—23 September 1969

Blinded by an outlaw's bullet, Johnny finds succor and love with a young mute woman as he struggles to evade the outlaw and his brothers, who plan to finish Johnny off.

Episode
 2: Zee
Original Air Date—30 September 1969

Episode
 3: The Kid
Original Air Date—7 October 1969

Episode
 4: The Black Angel
Original Air Date—21 October 1969

Episode
 5: The Gifts
Original Air Date—28 October 1969

Episode
 6: Cut the Wolf Loose
Original Air Date—4 November 1969

Episode
 7: Jelly Hoskins' American Dream
Original Air Date—11 November 1969

Episode
 8: Welcome to Genesis
Original Air Date—18 November 1969

Episode
 9: A Person Unknown
Original Air Date—25 November 1969

Episode
 10: Legacy
Original Air Date—9 December 1969

Scott's grandfather pays a visit to Lancer with the intention of persuading Scott - through fair means or foul - to return with him to Boston to live.
Episode
 11: A Scarecrow at Hacket's
Original Air Date—16 December 1969

Episode
 12: Little Darling of the Sierras
Original Air Date—30 December 1969

Episode
 13: Shadow of a Dead Man
Original Air Date—6 January 1970
Episode
 14: Blue Skies for Willie Sharpe
Original Air Date—13 January 1970
Episode
 15: Chad
Original Air Date—20 January 1970
Episode
 16: The Lorelei
Original Air Date—27 January 1970
Episode
 17: The Lion and the Lamb
Original Air Date—3 February 1970
Episode
 18: The Experiment
Original Air Date—17 February 1970
Episode
 19: Splinter Group
Original Air Date—3 March 1970
Episode
 20: Lamp in the Wilderness
Original Air Date—10 March 1970
Episode
 21: The Buscaderos
Original Air Date—17 March 1970
Episode
 22: Dream of Falcons
Original Air Date—7 April 1970
Episode
 23: Goodbye, Lizzie
Original Air Date—28 April 1970
Episode
 24: The Rivals
Original Air Date—5 May 1970
Episode
 25: Lifeline
Original Air Date—19 May 1970