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''Empire'' is an hour-long Western television series set on a 1960s ranch in New Mexico, starring Richard Egan, Terry Moore, and Ryan O'Neal. It ran on NBC from September 25, 1962, to May 14, 1963.〔 In the second abbreviated season, from September 24 to December 31, 1963, it was renamed ''Redigo'' after Egan's title character, Jim Redigo, the general manager of the fictitious Garrett ranch in ''Empire'', and reduced to a half-hour.〔Terrance; page 384〕 ==Cast== Egan starred in the series at the age of forty-one, having previously been in the hit film ''A Summer Place'', with the catchy theme song. Redigo was a rare ranch manager, having a Master of Business Administration degree. The ranch was located somewhere in the American Southwest, but the exact location was never pinpointed. The Garretts did have an empire. Besides ranching they were involved in oil, agriculture, and mining. The series has unusually- titled episodes. ''Empire'' also featured 22-year-old Ryan O'Neal, some two years before he gained greater recognition as Rodney Harrington in ABC's ''Peyton Place''. O'Neal, who began acting in 1959, played the son, Tal Garrett.〔(IMDB, ''Ryan O'Neal'' )〕 Terry Moore portrayed O'Neal's 33-year-old sister, Connie, who had a romantic interest in Redigo. Their mother and ranch matriarch, Lucia, was played by 53-year-old Anne Seymour (1909–1988).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Empire'' )〕 Another cast member, Warren Vanders, appeared in fifteen episodes as Chuck Davis. Anne Seymour and Terry Moore were dropped at mid-season; it was said that Seymour's character, Lucia, had died and Moore's character, Connie, had left the ranch in her grief. Charles Bronson, then forty-one, entered at mid-season in an all-male cast to portray the tough ranch hand, Paul Moreno, in thirteen remaining episodes.〔 In the second 15-episode season, O'Neal and Bronson were gone, too. Roger Davis, later of ABC's ''Alias Smith and Jones'', was added to the cast as Redigo's new ranch hand.〔 Elena Verdugo, later of Robert Young's ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'', starred as Gerry.〔EP Guide: ''Redigo''>http://epguides.com/Redigo/〕〔 The pilot episode of ''Empire'' entitled "This Rugged Land", with Denver Pyle and Charles Bronson, never aired. In the plot, a ranch foreman persecutes a man whom he believes killed his daughter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unaired pilot: "This Rugged Land" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Empire (1962 TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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