Bearcats! is a American Western television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the Fall 1971 television season. It starred Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as troubleshooters in the period before America entered World War One.
Set in 1914, somewhat later historically than a traditional Western, the stories centered around the heroes' use of a 1914 Stutz Bearcat automobile. Although autos were common in America in 1914, a $2000 sports ...
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Bearcats! is a American Western television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the Fall 1971 television season. It starred Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as troubleshooters in the period before America entered World War One.
Set in 1914, somewhat later historically than a traditional Western, the stories centered around the heroes' use of a 1914 Stutz Bearcat automobile. Although autos were common in America in 1914, a $2000 sports car would have been very rare in the more remote areas of the American west. How the heroes paid for this expensive ride was rather unusual, as well. They undertook work which would probably loosely be considered "private security" for a prosperous clientèle, and rather than charging a traditional fee, extracted from the client a blank check, with the amount charged to be determined by just how difficult/dangerous the job proved to be once it was completed. Typical adventures included learning who was setting fire to oil wells, unraveling a...
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