The Rounders
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📺 Series

The Rounders

📅 1966 ⭐ 6.4 🕐 30m US US

The Rounders was a 17-episode western-style situation comedy about two cowboys on the fictitious J.L. Ranch in Texas. It starred Ron Hayes as Ben Jones and Patrick Wayne, a son of John Wayne, as Howdy Lewis. The M-G-M television series aired on ABC from September 6, 1966, to January 3, 1967. The program was loosely based on a 1965 film of the same name, The Rounders, starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, set near Sedona, Arizona, rather than Texas. Chill Wills, a native Texan and formerly of CBS's Frontier Circus, appeared as the shady ranch owner, Jim Ed Love. Janis Hansen co-starred as Ben's girlfriend, Sally, and Bobbi Jordan played Howdy's girlfriend, Ada. Jason Wingreen appeared as Shorty Dawes, and Walker Edmiston as Regan. Character actors Strother Martin and J. Pat O'Malley appeared as "Cousin Fletch" and "Vince", respectively. James Brown, formerly the lieutenant on The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, played "Luke". Selected episodes with notable guest stars include: "A Horse on Jim Ed Love", series premiere with Harry Carey, Jr.; "It's a Noble Thing to Do", with John Smith, formerly Slim Sherman on NBC's Laramie; "Don't Buffalo Me", with Jay Silverheels, formerly Tonto of The Lone Ranger, as John Tallgrass; "The Moonshine Still Shines"; "It Takes Only One to Suffer"; "The Scavenger Hunt" with Zsa Zsa Gabor as Ilona Hobson; "Some Things Are Not for Sale"; "Four Alarm Wing Ding", with Dick Haynes as a sheriff; "Horse of a Different Cutter" with Andy Devine as Honest John Denton and Strother Martin as Cousin Fletch; "Polo, Anyone?", with Jay C. Flippen as Kenny Fahrbush; "Efficiency Is for Experts", and "What Elephants?", the series finale, in which Ben and Howdy try to hide an elephant in plain sight.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 18 episodes
E1
Pilot 1966-09-06
E2
Frontier Frankenstein 1966-09-13
E3
It's the Noble Thing to Do 1966-09-20
E4
The Moonshine Still Shines 1966-09-27
E5
Don't Buffalo Me 1966-10-04
E6
The Scavenger Hunt 1966-10-11
E7
Some Things are Not for Sale 1966-10-18
E8
It Takes Only One to Suffer 1966-10-25
E9
Man of the Year 1966-11-01
E10
Four-Alarm Wingding 1966-11-15
E11
Four Alarm Wingding 1966-11-15
E12
You Hold Your Temper, I'll Hold My Tongue 1966-11-29
E13
Horse of a Different Cutter 1966-12-06
E14
Polo, Anyone? 1966-12-13
E15
Low Moon at Hi Lo 1966-12-20
E16
The Sweet Little Old Lady 1966-12-27
E17
Efficiency is for the Experts 1967-01-03
E18
What Elephants? 1967-01-03
Cast
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