Michael Ansara, Full Episode, The Matriarch, Law of the Plainsman, 1960

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Season 01: Episode 21 "The Matriarch": A man is shot and killed on the ranch where he worked. Constance Vateri and her son Dev own the ranch. Constance said she shot the man without knowing who he was. She spotted him with her son's saddle. After looking into it more, Sam starts to think that things didn't happen the way she says they did. Sam is much more sure now that Hodie, the dead man's father, has been killed.

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Michael Ansara starred in the Western TV show Law of the Plainsman, which ran on NBC from October 1, 1959, to September 22, 1960.

The iconic ABC Western TV show The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors, featured the character of Native American Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart in two episodes: "The Indian" and "The Raid." Four Star Productions and Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions worked together to make this show, just like they did with The Rifleman.

Law of the Plainsman is unique because it was one of the few TV shows at the time that had a Native American as the main character. This was a big move for American network television at the time. Ansara has previously acted in the show Broken Arrow, when he played the Apache chief Cochise. But Ansara was not Native American; he was of Syrian heritage.

▶ Genre: Western television series

Director Arthur Hilton
Writer Teddi Sherman
Starring Michael Gina Gillespie, Nora Marlowe
Release date: February 18, 1960, USA
1 Season, 30 Episodes.

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