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8/10 TV Country of origin USA Final episode date 5 April 1974 Number of seasons 1 | 8.2/10 IMDb First episode date 11 January 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Earl BarretCalvin Clements Sr.Dale EunsonLeonard KatzmanJohn MantleyDenver PyleJay Simms Directed by Leonard KatzmanPhilip LeacockVincent McEveetyIrving J. MooreDenver Pyle Starring Jeanette NolanDack Rambo Composer(s) Bruce BroughtonJohn Carl Parker Similar Gunsmoke, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Lancer, How the West Was Won, The Virginian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dirty Sally is an American comedy-drama Western series which ran on CBS from January 11 until April 5, 1974. The program is a spin-off of a two-part 1971 episode of Gunsmoke in which Sally nurses a young gunfighter back to health.
Synopsis
The series stars Jeanette Nolan as Sally Fergus, a cantankerous, tobacco-chewing, rough-talking, and hard-drinking 62-year-old on her way west to pan for gold. Dack Rambo co-starred as Cyrus Pike, the young man who accompanies Sally to California. He was fleeing partners in crime. The plot centers on the two being detained in their trip west because of Sally’s frequent meddling into the lives of people that they encounter on the trail.
In the series, the two head for California, as Nolan begins to view Rambo as the son that she never had. Sally is something of a western junk collector loathed by many townspeople but liked by the main characters of Gunsmoke, who view her as the last frontierswoman.
Dirty Sally aired at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time on Fridays opposite NBC’s ratings juggernaut Sanford and Son. It preceded Good Times, which would rank at #17 for the season with a 21.4 average rating, and replaced the equally short-lived comedy Calucci's Department, which occupied that time slot for the first eleven weeks of the 1973-1974 season. Planet of the Apes moved into that same time in the 1974-1975 season, and Good Times was moved to Tuesdays. Dirty Sally was quickly cancelled, though Nolan was nominated for a Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award. The series continued in repeats until August 9.
