| A Man Called Shenandoah | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Western |
| Written by | Ed Adamson Robert C. Dennis Robert Hamner E. Jack Neuman Samuel A. Peeples Paul Savage Daniel B. Ullman |
| Directed by | David Alexander Murray Golden Tom Gries Harry Harris Nathan H. Juran Joseph H. Lewis Don McDougall Jud Taylor |
| Starring | Robert Horton |
| Opening theme | "Oh Shenandoah" |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 34 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Robert Hamner |
| Running time | 30 mins. |
| Production company(s) | Bronze Enterprises MGM Television |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 13, 1965 – May 16, 1966 |
A Man Called Shenandoah is a Western series that aired on ABC-TV from 1965 to 1966 by MGM Television.
The series starred Robert Horton (who also co-composed (with series composer George Stoll) and sang the theme song "Oh Shenandoah") as a man who was found shot and left for dead on the trail and is revived. He has no recollection of his past and, calling himself Shenandoah, roams the West in search of his identity. Later in the series' run, it was revealed that Shenandoah was a Union Officer in the western theater of the Civil War and an expert card player. The series ran for 34 episodes. Only 29 have survived; the other five are lost.
Among the guest stars were Claude Akins, Chris Alcaide, John Anderson, Ed Asner, Edward Binns, Whit Bissell, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Burns, John Dehner, Bruce Dern, Elinor Donahue, Leif Erickson, Douglas Fowley, Beverly Garland, Kevin Hagen, Ron Hayes, Myron Healey, Henry Jones, George Kennedy, Martin Landau, Cloris Leachman, Read Morgan, Warren Oates, Nehemiah Persoff, Madlyn Rhue, Bing Russell, Quintin Sondergaard, Harry Dean Stanton, Harry Townes, and Joyce Van Patten.
Robert Horton recorded the "Shenandoah" theme song for a Columbia single in 1965. It is from Horton's Columbia album The Man Called Shenandoah (Cs-9208, stereo; Cl-2408, mono; both 1965). Though many artists have sung variations of the song "Shenandoah", the only other to record it with the same lyrics that Horton sang (about a man with amnesia) was The Gang, who recorded a single of it in 1977 on Trash records (T-0003).