The Californians

Name: The Californians
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: 1957-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 5.8

About The Californians

San Franciscans during the goldrush of the 1850s attempt to maintain law and order in their wild city. Newly arrived Matthew Wayne becomes sheriff, then marshal, and organizes the city police force while expressing interest in the young widow Fanzler and sparring with attorney Pitt.

The Californians is a western series that ran on NBC. It ran for 2 seasons and 69 episodes between September 1957 and May 1959.

Its themes are wild west, sheriff, gold rush, and 19th century. Richard Coogan appears as Marshal Matthew Wayne, Sean McClory as Jack McGivern, Adam Kennedy as Dion Patrick, and Nan Leslie as Martha McGivern.

It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States.

Deadwood, 1883, and Little House on the Prairie make useful companions to The Californians.