My Friend Flicka S1E36 The Foundlings

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. My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western television
series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyoming
at the turn of the 20th century. The program was filmed
in color but initially aired in black and white on CBS at
7:30 p.m. Fridays from February 10, 1956, to February 1,
1957. It was a mid-season replacement for Gene Autry's
The Adventures of Champion. Both series failed in the
ratings against ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.

After the initial Friday airing, viewers could still
find the series on CBS Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern
during March 1957, on Sundays at 6 p.m. from April to
May 1957, and on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from June
to August 1957. NBC carried the program in color at
6:30 p.m. Sunday from September to December 1957 and
at 7 p.m. Sunday from January to May 1958.[2] In
subsequent years, the series aired mostly on Saturday
mornings on all networks. The Disney Channel ran it
on Monday evenings in the mid-1980s. Over the years
many viewers were unaware that the series produced
episodes for only a single season.

My Friend Flicka starred native Canadian Johnny
Washbrook as Ken McLaughlin, a boy devoted to his
horse Flicka, Swedish for "girl", but actually an
Arabian chestnut named Wahana. Gene Evans played
the authoritarian father Rob McLaughlin, a former
U.S. Army cavalry officer. Anita Louise was cast
as the gentle-spirited mother, Nell. Frank Ferguson
portrayed Gus Broeberg, the loyal Swedish ranch hand.
Flicka is based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, written at
the Remount Ranch, located between Laramie and Cheyenne
, Wyoming. Some Internet sites say that the series is
set in Montana, where some of the filming was done. The
majority of the filming, however, was at Fox Movie Ranch.
My Friend Flicka holds the distinction of having been the
first television series filmed by 20th Century Fox. A
1943 film, My Friend Flicka, starred Roddy McDowall as Ken.

Johnny Washbrook guested on several TV shows after the series
ended, and acted into the 1970s then went into banking. He
has appeared in several western celebrity signing shows in
the U.S. lately, and lives with his family in Martha's
Vineyard.Sydney Mason appeared on My Friend Flicka several
times as Sheriff Downey. Robert Adler appeared five times
in different roles; Claude Akins, three times, and Hugh
Beaumont, Tiger Fafara and Denver Pyle, twice. Pamela Baird
appeared in ten episodes as Hildy Broeberg. Beaumont,
Fafara, and Baird later had roles on the sitcom Leave
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