Nichols

Nichols (no first name was ever given) arrived back in the town founded years before by his family only to learn that it had been taken over by another family, the Ketchams, who functioned basically as a gang. Their matriarch, "Ma" Ketcham (Neva Patterson), soon blackmailed Nichols into serving as the town's sheriff, which carried little real authority (as the Ketchams largely ran things), but considerable danger. Mitch Mitchell (Stuart Margolin) was assigned to be Nichols' deputy, either in spite or because he was none too bright, none too honest, and something of a bully. Nichols (James Garner) soon found a love interest in Ruth (Margot Kidder), a barmaid, who worked for Bertha (Alice Ghostley), the bar's proprietress. Nichols' main concern was not usually law enforcement but rather a way of getting rich with little effort. The series did not do well in the ratings and was retitled James Garner as Nichols in October 1971 in an attempt to capitalize on the star's popularity. The low ratings also resulted in the decision by the program's producers to kill off the title character. The greedy, but pacifist Nichols was shot down, to be avenged by his identical twin brother Jim Nichols (also portrayed by Garner), who arrived in town and administered justice in a more stereotypical (and it was hoped, more popular) Western fashion. This solution would have made recasting and retitling the program unnecessary while allowing for considerable changes. However, the episode in which the first Nichols was murdered proved to be the final one; before it aired, NBC cancelled the series, rerunning the earlier episodes during the summer of 1972.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 75667
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired September 16, 1971
  • Recent May 16, 1972
  • Network NBC
  • Average Runtime 45 minutes
  • Genres Western
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
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  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season From To Episodes
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Season 1 September 1971 May 1972 24
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 September 1971 May 1972 24
Unassigned Episodes 0
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 September 1971 May 1972 24
Unassigned Episodes 0
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Frank Pierson 12 09/16/1971 - 03/14/1972
Ivan Dixon 3 01/11/1972 - 02/08/1972
William Wiard 3 10/21/1971 - 02/22/1972
John Badham 2 01/04/1972 - 01/18/1972
Peter Tewksbury 2 11/04/1971 - 11/11/1971
Jeremy Kagan 1 03/14/1972
Paul Bogart 1 10/07/1971
Gerd Oswald 1 11/23/1971
Tony Leader 1 02/29/1972
Danny Haller 1 12/07/1971
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Robert Foster 4 09/30/1971 - 03/07/1972
Shimon Wincelberg 3 09/23/1971 - 10/21/1971
Juanita Bartlett 3 01/11/1972 - 03/14/1972
Buck Houghton 2 12/07/1971 - 02/08/1972
Jack Curtis 2 11/23/1971 - 11/30/1971
George Kirgo 2 10/28/1971 - 11/30/1971
Bud Freeman 2 11/04/1971 - 02/29/1972
Bob Foster 1 11/23/1971
Frank Telford 1 02/01/1972
James L. Henderson 1 02/15/1972
Ben Masselink 1 01/18/1972
Gene L. Coon 1 11/11/1971
Sam Roeca 1 02/15/1972
Marion Hargrove 1 02/22/1972
Bill Wood 1 10/07/1971
William Wood 1 01/04/1972
Ken Kolb 1 11/30/1971
Theodore J. Flicker 1 09/30/1971

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