- Cowboy in Africa
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Cowboy in Africa Format Adventure Starring Chuck Connors
Ronald Howard
Gerald Edwards
Tom NardiniCountry of origin United States
No. of seasons 1 No. of episodes 26 Production Executive producer(s) Aaron Spelling Running time 60 min. Broadcast Original channel ABC Original run September 11, 1967 – April 1, 1968 Cowboy in Africa is an ABC television series produced in 1967-1968 by Ivan Tors and starring Chuck Connors. A 1966 television pilot turned into a movie and released to cinemas starring Hugh O'Brian as Jim Sinclair was called Africa - Texas Style.[1]
Plot
Jim Sinclair (Chuck Connors) is hired by Commander Hayes (Ronald Howard) to introduce modern methods to his game ranch in Kenya. He brings his helper and best friend, a Navajo Indian named John Henry. Together, they work at roping wildlife and building up a herd on the ranch. During the first episode, a little ten year old boy named Samson watches from afar and decides Jim would make a perfect father. Samson runs for a day and a half to the Hayes/Sinclair ranch and declares to Jim, the world's champion cowboy, that Jim would be his father. By the end of the first episode the boy and cowboy have adopted each other. Samson, John Henry, and Jim Sinclair become a family.
Episodes
- The New World
- Kifaru! Kifaru!
- Incident at Derati Wells
- What's an Elephant Mother to Do?
- Search for Survival
- Stone Age Safari
- The Adopted One
- Fang and Claw
- The Time of the Predator
- Lake Sinclair
- Tomorrow the Wind
- Little Boy Lost
- The Man Who Has Everything
- To Build a Beginning
- The Hesitant Hero
- African Rodeo, Part 1
- African Rodeo, Part 2
- First to Capture
- The Red Hand of Michael O'Neill
- The Quiet Death
- A Man of Value
- Search and Destroy
- Work of Art
- John Henry's Eden
- The Lions
- The Kasubi Death
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