Cowboy in Africa

Cowboy in Africa
File:Chuck Connors Cowboy in Africa 1967.JPG Chuck Connors as Jim Sinclair, 1967
Starring	Chuck Connors Ronald Howard Gerald Edwards Tom Nardini
Country of origin	USA
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producer(s)	Aaron Spelling
Running time	60 min.
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	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.

Plot

Jim Sinclair (Chuck Connors) is hired by Commander Hayes (British actor 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 herds on the ranch. During the first episode, a ten-year-old African boy named Samson (played by Gerald Edwards) 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.

The series competed during its single season for the same time period as the programs Gunsmoke and The Monkees.

Episodes

1. The New World
2. Kifaru! Kifaru!
3. Incident at Derati Wells
4. What's an Elephant Mother to Do?
5. Search for Survival
6. Stone Age Safari
7. The Adopted One
8. Fang and Claw
9. The Time of the Predator
10. Lake Sinclair
11. Tomorrow the Wind
12. Little Boy Lost
13. The Man Who Has Everything
14. To Build a Beginning
15. The Hesitant Hero
16. African Rodeo, Part 1
17. African Rodeo, Part 2
18. First to Capture
19. The Red Hand of Michael O'Neill
20. The Quiet Death
21. A Man of Value
22. Search and Destroy
23. Work of Art
24. John Henry's Eden
25. The Lions
26. The Kasubi Death

External links

• Cowboy in Africa at IMDb
• Cowboy in Africa at TV.com