Wildside

1 9 8 5 (USA)
6 x 60 minute episodes

Five upstanding citizens of Wildside County – a rough and tumble county in northern California – constituted a secret law-enforcement group called the ‘Wildside Chamber of Commerce’ in this short-lived ABC action series set in the Old West.

Brodie Hollister (William Smith) – recently returned from the East – was a rancher and the “fastest gun in the West”, with twenty-nine notches on his gun. Sutton (J. Eddie Peck) was his son.

Bannister Sparks (Howard E. Rollins Jr) was a debonair black explosives expert and card sharp who ran Bannister’s Emporium & Trading Company; Varges De La Cosa (John DiAquino) was a knife-wielding gunsmith, and huge Prometheus Jones (Terry Funk) was a gentle giant who was also a veterinarian and expert with the lariat.

Their assignments generally came from the Governor (Sandy McPeak), and adversaries ranged from local gangs to wandering ex-Confederate platoons and renegade British cavalry units left over from the Crimean War.

Other regulars included Meg Ryan as Cally Oaks, owner of the newspaper (the Daily Flash); Jason Hervey as young Zeke; and Tommy Lamey as Parks Ritche, a rival of Sutton’s.

Brodie Hollister
William Smith
Sutton Hollister
J. Eddie Peck
Bannister Sparks
Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Varges De La Cosa
John DiAquino
Prometheus Jones
Terry Funk
Cally Oaks
Meg Ryan
Governor J. Wendell Summerhayes
Sandy McPeak
Keye Ahn
Jon Fong
Elliot Throgmorton
Kurt Fuller
Alice Freeze
Robin Hoff
Skillet
Timothy Scott
Zeke
Jason Hervey
Parks Ritche
Tommy Lamey