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Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion

1950s American TV series

Summary

1950s American TV series

Field	Value
image	Captain gallant full.JPG
caption	Buster Crabbe with real life son Cullen
alt_name	"Foreign Legionnaire"
genre	Adventure
director	Lester Fuller
starring	Buster Crabbe
Fuzzy Knight
Cullen Crabbe
country	United States
language	English
num_seasons	2
num_episodes	65
location	Agadir, Morocco
runtime	30 minutes
channel	NBC
first_aired
last_aired

Fuzzy Knight Cullen Crabbe

Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion is an American half-hour black-and-white television series about the French Foreign Legion starring Buster Crabbe in the title role. Crabbe's real-life son Cullen Crabbe played the Legion mascot, with cowboy sidekick Fuzzy Knight playing himself as Legion comedy relief. The series premiered on NBC on 13 February 1955 and ended its first run with the 65th episode shown on 7 December 1957. It was shown for many years in syndication on American television under the title Foreign Legionnaire.

Production

The first season of the television show was filmed on location in North Africa with many actual Legionnaires and their installations featuring in the show. With increased danger to the crew, the series moved to Italy. The studio was one owned by Sophia Loren and was just outside the gates of the US Army base, Camp Darby, near Pisa.

One of the producers of the show was Harry Saltzman. The executive producer was Gilbert A. Ralston. Directors were Marcel Cravenne, Sam Newfield, Pierre Schwab, and Jean Yarbrough. Writers were Jack Andrews, Gene Levitt, and William N. Robson.

Three episodes were spliced together as a film released in the United Kingdom called Desert Outpost (1954) directed by Sam Newfield.

Tie-ins

Four issues of an American comic book published by Charlton Comics, intended as a promotion by the H. J. Heinz Company.
A playset by Louis Marx and Company containing a metal fort, palm trees, tents, and accessories, and figures of Buster and Cullen Crabbe as well as Legionnaires and Arab figures.
The Captain Gallant Adventure Game was a 1955 board game.

References

(1997). "The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television". Watson-Guptill Publications.
(1985). "Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series". The Scarecrow Press.
(February 16, 1955). "Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090530223433/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/269 BFI. Film & TV Database. DESERT OUTPOST (1954)]

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