Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

• 1956 –1957
• •
• Ended

• Action & Adventure

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Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season. In a period in which much of the programming on U.S. television consisted of Westerns, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers could best be described as an "Eastern". It consisted of the adventures of a fictional regiment of the famed real-life cavalry of the British Indian Army. The leading characters were the 77th's officers: the commander, Colonel Standish and two of his lieutenants, William Storm and Michael Rhodes. Rhodes was portrayed as a Canadian, purportedly because the actor portraying him, a native of New Jersey, could not be coached to produce a credible British accent.

Created by

Douglas Heyes

Seasons

1

Episodes

26

Episode length

~30m

First aired

Oct 21, 1956

Networks

NBC

Original language

English

Origin

United States