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    Drama TV Shows - 1960s 3 Mins Read

    Whiplash

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    1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (Australia)
    34 x 25 minute episodes

    This Wild West-style action series was set in Australia in the 1850s.

    Peter Graves (of Mission: Impossible fame) starred as stagecoach company owner Chris Cobb and the series featured his adventures in the constant struggle against bushrangers, aborigines and competitors during the country’s formative years.

    Chris also seemed to spend a lot of his time helping people find missing relatives and friends or resolve land disputes.

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    Anthony Wickert featured as his helper, Dan, while the bad guys in the series included George Wallace Jr and Chuck Faulkner – who had been Australia’s first newsreader and weatherman back in 1956 for Channel 9.

    Although filmed in Australia, the series did all it could to look American – even the bad guys were émigrés. The locals were mostly reduced to lines like “You’re an American – you’re the only one who can stop them.” And, as might be expected from an Aussie Western, there was not an Indian in sight!

    Whiplash was taken from the experiences of an American, Freeman Cobb, who migrated from Boston to Australia in the 1850s, began a Wells-Fargo-type transportation system across the big empty land and made it the best available until the railroads came in 1910, putting the company out of business.

    whiplash08At the peak, Cobb harnessed 6,000 horses a day and covered 20,000 miles of runs.

    The Whiplash company filmed part of the time at stud ranches and sheep and cattle stations and the remainder of the time at Artransa Studios in the Sydney suburb of Frenchs Forest.

    Graves became friendly with an aboriginal leader called Nose Peg during filming. After spending a day before the camera, Nose Peg apparently wanted to change his name to John Carter as he felt it would give him more dignity as an actor.

    TRIVIA 
    Peter Graves and James Arness (Marshall Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke) are brothers.

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    Christopher Cobb
    Peter Graves
    Dan Ledward
    Anthony Wickert
    Kuanspa/Kuraba/Mundaru/Dalgowlie
    Robert Tudawali
    Dillon
    Philip Ross
    Billy Jo
    Henry Murdoch
    Chad Karpner
    Barry Linehan
    Mike Jacky
    Ken Goodlet
    Norris
    Guy Doleman
    Cassie
    Annette Andre
    Anna
    Margo Lee
    Jeremy Quicksilver
    Stuart Wagstaff
    Edwin Regnor
    Nigel Lovell
    Arnold Lofton
    Joe McCormick
    Catherine Lachlan
    Janette Craig
    Dundee
    Grant Taylor
    Bunyip
    Tom Farley
    Barrow
    Reg Lye
    Sheridan
    Terry McDermott
    Adam Douglas
    John Brunskill
    Harry
    Roger Cox

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