The Loner

The Loner is an American western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, under the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble. It was one of the last TV series on CBS to air in black-and-white.

Synopsis

The series was set in the years immediately following the American Civil War. Lloyd Bridges played the title character, William Colton, a former Union cavalry captain who headed to the American west in search of a new life. Each episode dealt with Colton's encounters with various individuals on his trek west.

Rod Serling was the series' creator. Longtime TV Guide critic Cleveland Amory wrote that Serling "obviously intended [The Loner] to be a realistic, adult Western," but the show's ratings indicated it was "either too real for a public grown used to the unreal Western or too adult for juvenile Easterners." Serling had expressed an open distaste for some of the television Westerns of the time in an editorial that set up the premise for "Showdown with Rance McGrew," an episode of The Twilight Zone in which a primadonna Western actor encounters the ghost of Jesse James; in that editorial, he is quoted as saying: "it seems a reasonable conjecture that if there are any television sets up in cowboy heaven and any of these rough-and-wooly nail-eaters could see with what careless abandon their names and exploits are being bandied about, they're very likely turning over in their graves - or worse, getting out of them."

The Loner (album)

The Loner is an album recorded in late 1969 by Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees but never released. An album master was compiled on 14 November 1970 although it would remain unreleased. Bootleg releases with the same title collects additional recordings unrelated to this album.

Background and recording

Billy Lawrie was involved in it, of course, and the various members of Tin Tin. It was just a good, fun time, really - working in the studio with Maurice always was. It's quite a nice piece of work for someone who, no one really, than a singer, although he can sing harmonies".

The final sessions for the Bee Gees' album Cucumber Castle took place on October 16th, 1969. Two songs, "End of My Song" and "Julia", were recorded but neither were released. Around November 1969, Gibb collaborated with Australian group Tin Tin on which the band recorded "Nobody Moves Me Like You", "Loves Her That Way", "Flag/Put Your Money On My Dog".

Although Gibb's plans as a solo artist were accelerating, he was also quoted as saying "I'd seriously love to get back to the old Bee Gees again. I really loved the group, and I miss the unit a lot. It's things like sitting in hotel rooms together after a show and taking people off that made working in a group such fun. I miss all that being solo."

The Loner (Vic Simms album)

The Loner is an album by Australian singer Vic Simms. It was recorded when he was incarcerated in Bathurst Gaol in 1973.

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