My Friend Flicka
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First Air DateSep 30, 1955
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ProductionTCF Television Productions
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Rotten tomato57%
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Original titleMy Friend Flicka
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ReleaseSep 30, 1955
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Overview
My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western television series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyoming at the turn of the 20th century. The program was filmed in color but initially aired in black and white on CBS at 7:30 p.m. Fridays from February 10, 1956, to February 1, 1957. It was a mid-season replacement for Gene Autry's The Adventures of Champion. Both series, however failed in the ratings against ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. After the initial Friday airing, viewers could still find the series on CBS Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern during March 1957, on Sundays at 6 p.m. from April to May 1957, and on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from June to August 1957. NBC carried the program in color at 6:30 p.m. Sunday from September to December 1957 and at 7 p.m. Sunday from January to May 1958. In subsequent years, the series aired mostly on Saturday mornings on all networks. The Disney Channel ran it on Monday evenings in the mid-1980s. Over the years many viewers were unaware that the series produced episodes for only a single season. My Friend Flicka starred native Canadian Johnny Washbrook as Ken McLaughlin, a boy devoted to his horse Flicka, Swedish for "little girl", but actually an Arabian sorrel named Wahana. Gene Evans played the authoritarian father Rob McLaughlin, a former U.S. Army cavalry officer. Anita Louise was cast as the gentle-spirited mother, Nell. Frank Ferguson portrayed Gus Broeberg, the loyal ranch hand. Flicka is based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, written at the Remount Ranch, located between Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Some Internet sites say that the series is set in Montana, where some of the filming was done. The majority of the filming, however, was at Fox Movie Ranch. My Friend Flicka holds the distinction of having been the first television series filmed by 20th Century Fox. A 1943 film, My Friend Flicka, starred Roddy McDowall as Ken.
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Casts
Season 1 ( 1955-09-30)
One Man's Horse
Blind Faith
A Case Of Honor
A Good Deed
Cavalry Horse
The Accident
The Stranger
The Wild Horse
Rogue Stallion
The Little Secret
Act Of Loyalty
The Silver Saddle
The Phantom Herd
The Little Visitor
The Golden Promise
Black Dust
The Night Rider
The Settler
Wind From Heaven
The Whip
The Runaways
The Cameraman
Old Danny
Rough And Ready
The Royal Carriage
Mister Goblin
Rebels In Hiding
Lock, Stock & Barrel
The Unmasking
Refuge For The Night
Against All Odds
The Old Champ
The Medicine Man
When Bugles Blow
The Recluse
The Foundlings
Growing Pains
Lost River
Big Red
