7.6 /10 1 Votes
7/10 TV Country of origin United States Final episode date 5 May 1958 | 8.2/10 IMDb First episode date 8 October 1957 Number of episodes 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Written by Bill BarrettJohn K. ButlerLee ErwinStephen LongstreetFrank L. Moss Directed by Abby BerlinGeorge BlairLew Landers Starring Alan Hale Jr.Dub TaylorBobby ClarkMary LawrenceEddy Waller Cast Similar The Life and Legend o, Laramie, Whispering Smith, Rawhide, The Deputy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tv theme casey jones
Casey Jones is an American Western series that ran during the 1957-1958 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads. The series aired in syndication in the United States. Casey Jones aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom and on the Seven Network in Australia.
Contents
- Tv theme casey jones
- Casey jones 1957 1958 opening and closing theme
- Synopsis
- Cast list
- Broadcast
- References
Casey jones 1957 1958 opening and closing theme
Synopsis
The series is set in the late 19th century, featuring the adventures of railroad engineer Casey Jones and the crew of the Cannonball Express steam locomotive, fireman Wallie Sims and conductor Redrock Smith, working for the Midwest and Central Railroad. Casey lived in Midvale, a fictional town within commuting distance of St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife, Alice, their young son, Casey, Jr., and their dog Cinders. Although there really was a famous locomotive engineer named Casey Jones of the Illinois Central, the television series is only very loosely based on him. However, it uses the real names of his train, the Cannonball Express. The name of the character Wallie Sims is a conflation of Illinois Central employee Wallace Saunders, who wrote the earliest version of The Ballad of Casey Jones, and the real Jones' fireman, Simeon "Sim" Webb. Unlike Wallie Sims, both Saunders and Webb were African-American.
Kenneth Gamet, the producer of Casey Jones, offers a gentler Western series against the more violent adult shows of the time. Casey Jones features the same classical types of plots as other westerns such as train robbers and vandals, but the episodes center as much on Casey's interaction with his family, particularly Casey, Jr.
Cast list
Broadcast
According to contemporary issues of the UK Radio Times magazine, the series was shown in the UK on BBC1, the first run commencing on 8 November 1967 (accompanied by a half-page photo feature), with a second run from 21 March 1969. Both runs showed only 26 episodes of the series. It was last shown in the UK in August 1975.