Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

1956

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Released: 21 October 1956 Ended
Producted By: Screen Gems Television
Country: United States of America
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Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season. In a period in which much of the programming on U.S. television consisted of Westerns, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers could best be described as an "Eastern". It consisted of the adventures of a fictional regiment of the famed real-life cavalry of the British Indian Army. The leading characters were the 77th's officers: the commander, Colonel Standish and two of his lieutenants, William Storm and Michael Rhodes. Rhodes was portrayed as a Canadian, purportedly because the actor portraying him, a native of New Jersey, could not be coached to produce a credible British accent.

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Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away
Nonureva Really Surprised!
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
bkoganbing Tales Of The 77th Bengal Lancers was a television series that lasted for a year and starred Philip Carey and Warren Stevens as a pair of young lieutenants assigned to said regiment and their exploits holding the crown jewel of the British Empire for their Queen. Their commanding officer was Patrick Whyte who actually was in the Indian army during the final days of the British Raj.Other than that the series never got closer to India than the Indian elephants and tigers at the San Diego Zoo. It was shot here in the USA for that year it ran. A decade later the television series Maya which actually was shot in India was canceled frankly because of the expense of location shooting.Not to say that some decent films weren't done about the Raj in America. One could mention Lives Of A Bengal Lancer, The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Gunga Din all of which have their fans. All of them good as they are never quite got the British experience in India, let alone the Indian experience of having them there quite right.Those were all A pictures and Tales Of The 77th Bengal Lancers was a television series and would have qualified as B films back in the day. The native Indians were treated a lot like our American Indians and Carey and Stevens could have been in our frontier cavalry. I noticed the name of George Archaimbaud as a director of episodes of the show and Archaimbaud was a well known director of B westerns, a lot of the Hopalong Cassidys for instance. That should tell you all you need to know.I haven't seen any episodes in decades, at least since the Sixties when it passed out of syndication. I remember as a kid just enjoying it as a western where the cavalry wore helmets and the Indians wore turbans. At least the officers wore helmets.