Please click the link below for Amazon warehouse deals and<br /> every click helps keep this channel running and commercial <br />free, every purchase you make at Amazon after clicking the <br />link keeps this channel running and free from commercials <br />and annoying playlists.<br /><br /><br />. My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western television<br /> series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyoming<br /> at the turn of the 20th century. The program was filmed <br />in color but initially aired in black and white on CBS at<br /> 7:30 p.m. Fridays from February 10, 1956, to February 1,<br /> 1957. It was a mid-season replacement for Gene Autry's<br /> The Adventures of Champion. Both series failed in the <br />ratings against ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.<br /><br />After the initial Friday airing, viewers could still<br /> find the series on CBS Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern <br />during March 1957, on Sundays at 6 p.m. from April to<br /> May 1957, and on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from June <br />to August 1957. NBC carried the program in color at <br />6:30 p.m. Sunday from September to December 1957 and <br />at 7 p.m. Sunday from January to May 1958.[2] In<br /> subsequent years, the series aired mostly on Saturday<br /> mornings on all networks. The Disney Channel ran it<br /> on Monday evenings in the mid-1980s. Over the years <br />many viewers were unaware that the series produced <br />episodes for only a single season.<br /><br />My Friend Flicka starred native Canadian Johnny<br /> Washbrook as Ken McLaughlin, a boy devoted to his<br /> horse Flicka, Swedish for "girl", but actually an <br />Arabian chestnut named Wahana. Gene Evans played<br /> the authoritarian father Rob McLaughlin, a former<br /> U.S. Army cavalry officer. Anita Louise was cast <br />as the gentle-spirited mother, Nell. Frank Ferguson <br />portrayed Gus Broeberg, the loyal Swedish ranch hand. <br />Flicka is based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, written at <br />the Remount Ranch, located between Laramie and Cheyenne<br />, Wyoming. Some Internet sites say that the series is <br />set in Montana, where some of the filming was done. The <br />majority of the filming, however, was at Fox Movie Ranch.<br /> My Friend Flicka holds the distinction of having been the <br />first television series filmed by 20th Century Fox. A <br />1943 film, My Friend Flicka, starred Roddy McDowall as Ken.<br /><br />Johnny Washbrook guested on several TV shows after the series<br /> ended, and acted into the 1970s then went into banking. He <br />has appeared in several western celebrity signing shows in <br />the U.S. lately, and lives with his family in Martha's <br />Vineyard.Sydney Mason appeared on My Friend Flicka several <br />times as Sheriff Downey. Robert Adler appeared five times<br /> in different roles; Claude Akins, three times, and Hugh <br />Beaumont, Tiger Fafara and Denver Pyle, twice. Pamela Baird <br />appeared in ten episodes as Hildy Broeberg. Beaumont,<br /> Fafara, and Baird later had roles on the sitcom Leave <br />It to Beaver. Classic movies, tv and animated shorts <br /> SUBSCRIDE!! New content uploaded daily!
