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The Chisholms [videorecording (DVD)] : complete TV series.

Timeles Media Group ; marketed by Shout! Factory, 2014.

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)] :

3 videodiscs (745 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Evan Hunter.

Contains all 13 episodes from the western TV series originally broadcast on CBS first as a 4-part miniseries in 1979 and continuing on as a TV series in 1980.

Created by David Dortort ; produced by Paul Freeman ; directed by Mel Stuart et. al.

Robert Preston and Rosemary Harris with Ben Murphy, Mitchell Ryan, Brian Kerwin, Brett Cullen, James Van Patten, Stacy Nelkinm, Delta Burke, Susan Swift, Charles Frank, Sandra Griego, Billy Drago, Brian Keith, Anthony Zerbe and Reid Smith.

"One pioneer family’s journey west is chronicled in The Chisholms, a sprawling western television series starring Robert Preston (The Music Man) and award-winning stage and screen actress Rosemary Harris. Swindled out of their Virginia property, the Chisholm family, led by proud patriarch Hadley (Preston) and his wife Minerva (Harris), make the trek westward in order to build a new life for themselves in the Oregon Territory. Along the trail the Chisholm clan encounters challenges that threaten not only their safety, but the very fabric of their familial bonds. Created by David Dotort, The Chisholms is an entertaining mix of classic TV western and family-based drama in the vein of Bonanza, on which Dotort was a producer. Saddle up and make the journey with The Chisholms.

Western television programs.

Television mini-series.

Hunter, Evan, 1926-2005. Chisholms.

Preston, Robert, 1918-1987.

Harris, Rosemary, 1930-

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