Stoney Burke: a "Proto" OUTER LIMITS! :-)
STONEY BURKE (1962-63; 32 one hour episodes; created by Leslie Stevens; a Daystar Production), Starring Jack Lord ("Hawaii 5-0"), Warren Oates, Bruce Dern ("Silent Running") and Robert Dowdell ("Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea") comes to DVD at long last from Timeless Media!
Just a heads up that die-hard fans of THE OUTER LIMITS **might** be interested in purchasing STONEY BURKE on DVD, since many of the cast and crew from THE OUTER LIMTS had previously worked on STONEY BURKE. Quoting from THE OUTER LIMITS COMPANION Book (1998) by David J. Schow (page 15): "A quick look at STONEY BURKE's credit roll...reads like a dry run for the soon-to-come OUTER LIMITS dream team. Every episode features at least one actor who would later appear in a pivotal role on THE OUTER LIMITS. Many of the music cues composed by Dominic Frontiere to augment cowpunching action found their way into assorted OUTER LIMITS episodes as part of Daystar's permanent library of soundtracks. Episodes of...
Another Good Show
In 1962, 2 shows about rodeo cowboys hit the air. There was "Wide Country" starring Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine, Thursdays 7:30 on NBC and this series starring Jack Lord, Monday nights at 9 on ABC. They were both good series, both lasted one season and were gone. The only difference was that Earl Holliman on "Wide Country" was a champion and Jack Lord on "Stoney Burke" was trying to become one.
A couple of years ago, Timeless video released the entire series of "Wide Country." I watched each episode and it was an excellent show. Also, for timeless video, the quality was good. I hope they do the same fine job with "Stoney Burke."
One of the many good things about Stoney was the supporting cast which included Warren Oates, who became one of the movies great character actors (appearing as several filthy and repulsive characters in Sam Peckinpah westerns) and Bruce Dern, who became a major movie star, starring in, (among other things,) Hitchcock's last film "Family...
WHO IN THE HELL IS STONEY BURKE AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE
The question many of you will have coming to this piece is: Who the hell is Stoney Burke, and is there any reason I should care who the hell he is.
Stoney Burke is a TV series created by Leslie Stevens and airing in 1962 and 1963. Stevens' company, Daystar, would produce The Outer Limits the next year.
Stevens wrote and directed the first eight episodes of Stoney Burke, a series about the rodeo circuit used as an arena for a number of anti-establishment themed stories, in a time when there were few television shows examining or questioning the status quo. At first it seems curious that this modern-day western be used as a motif for living a non-conformist life-style, but in a tilt of thought, it's appropriate, because despite the closed environment of the rodeo, the people who live it travel from place to place. The dream of winning a golden buckle is meaningless to most outside of the rodeo circuit. The dreams are big. The challenges are physically harsh...
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