The Outcasts (TV series)
Overview
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
genre television series, appearing on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
in the 1968-69 season. The series co-starred Don Murray
Don Murray (actor)
Donald Patrick "Don" Murray is an American actor.-Early life and career:Murray was born in Hollywood, California on July 31, 1929, the only child of Dennis Aloisius, a Broadway dance director and stage manager and Ethel Murray, a former Ziegfeld performer...
and Otis Young
Otis Young
Otis E. Young was an African-American actor. He was only the second African-American actor to co-star in a television Western, The Outcasts , with Don Murray, the first being Raymond St Jacques who had co-starred on the final season of Rawhide in 1965, as cattle drover Simon Blake...
, and is probably most notable for being the first television Western with a Black co-star and the first bi-racial Western action team.
"Jemal David and Earl Corey. One black, one white; one ex-Union soldier, ex-Confederate officer; one ex-slave, one ex-slave owner.