Rare Rod Serling Ep 1-21 The Loner: Mourners For Johnny Sharp '65 Orig TV Script

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Rare Rod Serling Ep 1-21 The Loner: Mourners For Johnny Sharp '65 Orig TV Script This auction is for an original script for the short-lived TV show The Loner. This script is for episode 1-21: "The Mourners For Johnny Sharp."According to Wikipedia, The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble. The series was set in the years immediately following the American Civil War. Lloyd Bridges played the title character, William Colton, a former Union cavalry officer who headed to the American west in search of a new life. Each episode dealt with Colton's encounters with various individuals on his trek west. Rod Serling was the series' creator. Longtime TV Guide critic Cleveland Amory wrote that Serling "obviously intended [The Loner] to be a realistic, adult Western," but the show's ratings indicated it was "either too real for a public grown used to the unreal Western or too adult for juvenile Easterners." Serling had expressed an open distaste for television Westerns in an editorial that set up the premise for "Showdown with Rance McGrew," an episode of The Twilight Zone, in which he was quoted as saying: "it seems a reasonable conjecture that if there are any television sets up in cowboy heaven and any of these rough-and-wooly read more
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