Cimarron Strip Opening Credit

[@briangrewe5147]

One of my favorite westerns,too bad it only lasted one season! RIP Stuart Whittman!

[@bluejazz517]

R.I.P. Stuart Whitman, February 1, 1928 - March 16, 2020

[@chrisj2539]

Such a pity this series couldn't have lasted longer. However, thanks to the magic of DVD, we can now re-enjoy it at home!

[@cherylphelan2422]

My absolute favorite western....Stuart Whitman still rocks my world! ❤️

[@angelobellino5716]

Cheryl Phelan Mine too!

[@إسماعيلسعيد-خ8ذ]

Miners, too. May he be in peace AMEN

[@piercemartin4499]

Stuart Whitman passed away a little over three months ago ( today is the 18-6-2020 ). He was a superb actor. He was nominated for an academy award for his portrayal of a pedestrian peadophile in the controversial movie " The Mark," made in 1961. It was a daring film, which twined him with Rod Stiger as the psychiatrist. Whitman understood that fame was fleeting and was somewhat broken by the axing of " Cimarron Strip," which though an outstanding western series, fell foul of the ratings to " Bewitched," and another competing series shown at the same time. Rest now Stuart. You were wonderful ❣️.

[@pagescoslet]

We watched this at home when I was a kid, as we did everything on CBS. Those were the days.

[@MsSissiePooh]

They just don't make TV shows like they used to with epic openings and incredibly awesome theme songs like this one. CS was one of my late father's favorite shows, and I still get goosebumps when I watch this. Thanks for uploading! :)

[@christian.hansen]

What a beautiful theme song.... the music is phenomenal....always brings beautiful nostalgia and only just recently did we lose Marshall Jim Crown..bless his soul...

[@brwnlady]

One of the best opening and closing western scores. Score is by Maurice Jarre. Also, the cinematography on the opening and closing was equally fantastic. Love those long shots.

[@Guitarzzzzzzz173]

I remember the series as a kid. The only thing I remember about it the opening music, lol!

[@rodmoore1577]

No one and I mean NO ONE rode a horse cooler than the great Stuart Whitman. When I was growing up theme songs were so cool and not to be missed. They set the tone. They got you ready. I miss tv theme songs.

[@seanodwyer4322]

rod- '' Perhaps you were weaned out off the t.v. comfort zone too soon, and need too go too the current you- tube comfort zone.s.'''

[@rodmoore1577]

@@seanodwyer4322 whatever

[@carolebarker2195]

I love tv theme songs too, especially Westerns.

[@iandelap1372]

All you riding critics...He's riding downhill if you look closely. As a Texan I can assure you that downhill, you lean back unless you want to go headfirst over your horse's head.

[@BegoneJonah]

"As a Texan..." Well! Far be it for ME to correct you, then! :)

[@mehitablestorm8877]

Thank you for explaining that! I LOVE Stuart Whitman and loved him back then too but I always thought he looked awkward in that intro. That makes sense. They probably should have picked another terrain.

[@lindahoy7815]

Ian Delap and lean forward going up hill. Had to help a novice as we were riding up a mountain trail as we were being guided by a rider from Mill Iron Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Poor horse was really struggling. He followed instructions and you could tell the horse was moving a lot easier.

[@JJTownley_Classical-Composer]

Incredible that Stuart Whitman is actually riding that horse in the opening credits. Even more incredible, he's still with us at 89 years of age.

[@christian.hansen]

beautiful music... the theme song is most memorable...

[@chrisj2539]

And he holds that saddle like he was glued to it!

[@theman2017inc]

J J Townley Sometime-composer of Piano Concertos just heard the news he’s passed away yesterday @the age of 92 Rest In Peace Mr Whitman 😔

[@Juliaflo]

@@theman2017inc What an insurmountable loss. We are losing so many of the standard-bearers of an era gone by.

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@chrisj2539 probly was

[@noonebutone]

One of the best western TV shows . I used to watch this show when I was 6 and I still remember the introduction soundtrack. Very nice music and the actor is agreat rider so is the desert beyond. Brings nice memories.

[@The1baddman]

I just read online, Stuart Whitman has passed away.

[@audeladureel3104]

I was a little boy and was watching this on TV in France, back in the day

[@craigk3094]

Love this theme song, just wish it was longer.

[@rayssonation]

"Cimarron Strip" was television's second 90-minute western that lasted one season on CBS and was brought back in repeats until 1971. It was however,CBS' answer to The Virginian and was produced by the same people who brought you "Gunsmoke".

[@hebneh]

That's an amazingly smooth helicopter shot, considering that stabilizers/steadicams hadn't been invented yet, when it was filmed. In 9th grade (fall of 1968) I got to be friends with Jill Townsend's youngest brother, and he told me she was starring in this TV series - and I'd never seen it, or even heard of it. And watching this opening clip on KZbin just now, over 40 years later, is the first time I ever have seen anything from the show.

[@54spiritedwill54]

one of the best openings for a tv show

[@seanodwyer4322]

Dog cant ride too save himself

[@miriaminesphilippi6463]

Sim acho que é a melhor e a melhor série de bang-bang eu amava assistir, pena que não passa mais hoje em dia! 😢

[@Debra355]

The first episode was great. 'Battleground'. Jim Crown's on a train being hazed by Telly Savalas & cronies. Dulcey's sitting across from JC trying to figure out what he is. She's written down some things. Crosses off parson when he gives her this sultry look. The train hazing is aborted & JC has a rifle pointed at Warren Oates. Jim picks up Dulcey's paper & reads out loud, 'Gunfighter,lawyer,gambler'. He looks at her smiles & says 'No, Miss. Marshall" And the theme song begins. Awesome

[@vjohnson6464]

My best friend and I wrote fan letters to him and he wrote really long replies on the back of his publicity pic in his handwriting. 50 years later I still have mine! It was up against Gunsmoke's time slot so it had no chance.

[@MaxxTheMerciless]

Probably one of the best, if not the best, western ever on television.

[@Crazymike1975]

Stuart Whitman makes the series enjoyable to watch and a Trooper riding that Horse at the pace it's going. The theme music is definitely Excellent.🎶🎶🎶🎧🎧🎧👍👍👍

[@seanodwyer4322]

still say there something creepy how he bare- back rides that mare.'''

[@biffarone]

Cimarron Strip first aired for one season in 1967 and CBS reran it as a Summer replacement series in 1971. Mt favorite episode in this series had Joseph Cotton as the Guest Star. Encore Westerns reruns this show on Saturday mornings. It is a shame that a show as good as this was didn't last long. I really thought the opening with the Badge and then Stuart Whitman riding a horse with that great music playing was awesome. When Gunsmoke dropped the opening gunfight they did a similar opening.

[@SupportingActor]

Great show, too bad it only ran one season. Whitman was excellent!

[@vjohnson6464]

Ditto. 50 years ago I was in love! Best friend and I lived for next episode. Up against Gunsmoke so no hope.

[@sdftrd]

I remember seeing this series when it first aired. I was 11 or so. Loved it. There was an episode about Jack the Ripper coming to America. Scared me to death. Somebody had the smarts to hire Bernard Herrmann to write the score for that particular episode.

[@delpoz01]

DEAR KZbin FRIENDS:The greatest TV opening scene music and film-CIMARRON STRIP. The horse riding run scene is the greatest ever. Maybe the horse is kinda frightened by the shooting helicopter/plane flying by. Mr Stuart Whitman is perfect as the US Marshall. Favorite TV western.At that time (1950-1980), made for TV films used to be made by highly and unmatcheable talented actors,directors, crewmen.Pity it's all over.Now movies are very bad.Thanks for uploading.WE MISS THEM SO MUCH.Ademar

[@eudesdamasceno]

RIP Stuart Whitman

[@rayssonation]

"Cimarron Strip" was television's second 90-minute western and it lasted one season on CBS from 1967 until 1968. However,CBS reaired "Cimarron Strip" in repeated episodes(all 26 episodes) from 1968 until 1971. These episodes aired during the summers of 1968 thru 1971. Produced by Phillip Leacock and John Manley(of Gunsmoke).

[@mr.ramfan8100]

A MUCH underated program...

[@winstonchurchill6585]

Magnificent series

[@joebloggs8636]

My father used to say. NO ONE rode a horse like Mr. Whitmen.

[@rodmoore1577]

Your dad was absolutely right! He just looked so cool riding that horse.

[@djrichardbrown4762]

The CBS Television Network presents STUART WHITMAN Starring in CIMARRON STRIP Developed by CHRISTOPHER KNOPF PERCY HERBERT as MacGregor RANDY BOONE as Francis and JILL TOWNSEND as Dulcey

[@billdev2007]

wow, thanks for uploading this great western theme tune.

[@rogergrayreports]

In Whitman's defense, if you look carefully, he is riding downhill. That explains why he's sitting so far back in the saddle.

[@ghastlygrandpa]

I thought he was just trying to be sexy.

[@seanodwyer4322]

@@ghastlygrandpa - ''' More like trying too avoid sitting on the worst area off his Partner's attentions.'''

[@PaulAshley]

All these years later, I remember that I thought Whitman's pants with the buttons along the calf we're sooo cool!

[@frankkuchno]

Cimarron Strip.....Oklahoma Interesting topography?? Good show.....GREAT theme.

[@w.a.a.]

Fantastic score, and not by anyone I'd think. It is by Maurice Jarre, better known for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, among others.

[@Laceykat66]

Let's not forget about the theme songs. Westerns produced the overall best music on television.

[@TralfazConstruction]

Stuart Whitman was a versatile sort of actor not lacking charisma for sure. This show is the first thing which comes to mind when I think of the late actor. He was in a bit of a mind-bender, Sands of the Kalahari (1965), which ABC featured a few times on their Sunday Night Movie in the latter half of the 1960s.

[@supernova1969]

The Best!

[@mqblues]

If you're going to have a tv western it's got to have a big theme -- and the music combined with the aerial camerawork at the Alabama Hills outside of Big Pine CA makes a great intro. I miss shows like this.

[@francesfarmer736]

One of the best theme songs for a TV show

[@audeladureel3104]

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[@homeelectricco]

let's not forget great theme songs like The Rifleman , Have Gun will Travel, Maverick, Cheyenne

[@chrisj2539]

Look how he sticks to that saddle! That man could *ride*!

[@lylewilson5250]

Love it! 👍👏🏻

[@Debra355]

I know what you're all saying about how he sits. Usually you lean back like that when you're going down hill. Here it may have something to do with keeping the horse in check for the camera angle or maybe just the way the man sits a horse. Trust me. Whitman is no stranger to horsemanship. Check out the closing credits posted by spudtv. He giddyups in that!

[@baraxor]

@hebneh That's pretty cool! You friend's dad was Robert Townsend who had been the CEO of Avis who helped develop the "when you're #2, you try harder" campaign that took a bite out of Hertz, and who wrote "Up the Organization"

[@christian.hansen]

Beautiful

[@tomlovejerry99]

Très bons souvenirs... Merci !

[@Stratajamo]

This was excellent tv show ,we had just got our first color television.

[@Juliaflo]

The opening vamp of the theme still sets my senses afire after 42 years. (Uh-uh, DON"T try to figure out my age, LOL. Hope you had a happy holiday.)

[@seanodwyer4322]

63

[@whiskeyify]

I used to watch re-runs of this on sat mornings here in los angeles. A great show, I remember one where he is supposed to be chasing "Jack the Ripper". (that crazy killer in england, around the turn of the centrury).

[@seanodwyer4322]

perhaps ripper was a ancestor off the now current- King Charles 111

[@whiskeyify]

FYI everyone, according to one website I went to they said it was cancelled due to high production costs. My guess is that since it was all filmed outdoors that was why. Now days we have these shows that are filmed entirely inside a studio lot.

[@Sandiforty]

i always love this theme

[@dannrutherford1641]

Has to be one of if not the best theme song ever written.

[@sallywest3143]

A fondly remembered Western of my childhood - along with "Lancer", "The High Chapparal" and "The Virginian" - I loved the opening with the horse and rider galloping through the desert and the stirring music! Not many people remember this show, but I loved it - the other "forgotten" western I enjoyed as a girl was "The Iron Horse" with Dale Robertson - anyone remember it?

[@jackgamer8562]

Yes I remember Jim Hardy and this show was my favourite in 1968 when I was 9 years old in the UK

[@jameshull4916]

yes a remember it well, Robertson was a gambler who won a train playing black jack.

[@TheCatgirl6]

Me too, moonchildiva! And I love the opening theme--the sixties and early seventies were a great era for great tv themes and rugged men. Rock on, indeed!

[@Marybgreat]

Sorry, nobody could ride a horse as sexy as Stuart Whitman.

[@Cindylover1969]

Theme music by Maurice Jarre. THE Maurice Jarre ("Doctor Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia").

[@homeelectricco]

One of my favorites .... one of the last cowboy series too

[@gtpmmk]

A bit more indeed! Good info I never new that. Glad to know he got his due.

[@nycolas1712]

Excellent.

[@bearfedway]

Giving credit where credit is due, composer Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago) wrote the theme song to Cimarron Strip.

[@Marcos2797]

Wonderful!

[@waverly2468]

Check out the DVD of the movie "Murder Inc." (1960) which features May Britt and Stuart Whitman before he became known for mostly cowboy roles. I remember that this short-lived series was 90 minutes, but it did not have the longevity of the other 90 minute Western, "The Virginian".

[@basheiralsafey4363]

من اجمل المسلسلات الراقية والجميلة التي كنا نتابعها بالسبعينات الله على ايام زمان

[@fromthesidelines]

This was supposed to be CBS' equivalent of "THE VIRGINIAN". It didn't help that "CIMARRON STRIP" appeared opposite NBC's "DANIEL BOONE" on Thursday nights at 7:30pm(et). That, along with Whitman's insistance on "perfection" and inflating the show's budget [which is why only 23 episodes were produced, instead of the standard 26 at the time], eventually scuttled it after one season...

[@TheSpelldoctor]

The theme brings back alot of good memories. Stuart Whitman rocked,as Marshal Jim Crown. But it's the theme I remember best. I had just gotten the training wheels off my bike. And this was the music I was humming as I was riding. Good sweet days!! Oh by the way...who did write the theme?

[@Debra355]

All I know is that it wasn't into my back yard... and even today I sure as hell wish it had been...

[@JayH7745]

They should have asked Dean Martin and John Wayne to be guest stars on this show from time to time. GREAT SHOW! I record it now on TiVo so I can see it. I missed it during the first run for some reason. I love it now!

[@brwnlady]

Elmer Bernstein. I was shopping, heard a promo for a movie called Far From Heaven. Loved the score, knew it had to be from someone "old school." Learned it was Elmer Bernstein. He was nominated but did not win an Academy Award. He should have won. They don't make scores for movies or television worth a damn anymore.

[@davidmahin874]

This was a great 90 minute western to watch like the Virginian good storytelling wish it could have stayed on longer like to get it on dvd

[@Juliaflo]

YOU SAID IT. Today, the theme songs are largely neglected.

[@lucille7069]

Stuart Whitman was great as Boaz in the movie "Ruth."

[@whiskeyify]

makes you wonder why this only lasted 1 year, but then you had shows like the Big Valley that were around a lot longer. I always thought Big Valley was more of a soap opera then a western.

[@hebneh]

@baraxor In addition, Jill Townsend's sister became one of "Nader's Raiders" at this same time - they were high school-age girls who did investigating for him, and reported on conditions in nursing homes to a Congressional panel. And as you wrote, their father was getting a lot of publicity then too, for his book which exposed how big corporations functioned, as seen by an insider.

[@mrFalconlem]

@saishutu They are available in Britain, higher quality as they were mastered for PAL. Not sure how many episodes, but seen an advertisement on choicesuk for at least two.

[@nycolas1712]

EXCELLENT.

[@JasonRadley]

He ain't riding, he's surfing.

[@carlosaoarecido6891]

Cimarron. Muito bom mesmo. Asisti todos os capítulos

[@DavidLewis-tq4qx]

Great show. 90 minutes. But Cimarron Strip is in Oklahoma. Looks like Stuart W. is riding in Wyoming. Still should have been given a chance to grow an audience.

[@rohansrider]

How come the quality of Cimarron Strip is so good, especially the one with James Stacy talking to Stuart Whitman. What medium was used to produce this for YOu Tube? Has Lancer or Cimarron ever been put onto DVD?

[@إسماعيلسعيد-خ8ذ]

The BEST TV Theme. The Best TV show

[@TheCatgirl6]

LOL--I won't tell if you don't! Hope yours was happy as well.

[@sandrawilson6031]

Beautiful theme song rates along with 'The Virginian'

[@swimgymnyc]

this is great-- and YES, the continuous shot is AMAZING. listening to the theme song makes one "hear" where the theme for DALLAS came from. wonder if it's the same composer. anybody know??

[@ranran19701]

the crane would still be flipping over going down the hill 35 years later.

[@miriamphilippi6159]

É um sonho... que saudades desse seriado nota mil!

[@edpolk1262]

Dulcey Coopersmith!

[@hanoc101]

Ah the 60s when there was more than a million and a half westerns on at one time.

[@WhiteCamry]

@njdramaguy99 , So it was neither a "sequel" nor or a "prequel" but, rather, an equal.

[@christian.hansen]

A treasure...

uma das trilhas mais lindas para seriados

[@TheCatgirl6]

Sorry; that previous comment was meant for you, Juliaflo--thought I was replying directly to you.

[@BarkingSands]

Heh. As a kid I didn't know how amazing this shot was. But I did want to change my name to Dulcey.

[@Debra355]

One of - if not THEE greatest - TV theme Song... I Spy was good... The Virginian was up there and High Chapparell.. maybe 3rd...but it was Cimarron Strip by a TV Land mile ... And movie themes?? Maurice Jarre again.. Lawrence of Arabia.. awesome....

[@baraxor]

@MrAzrancher By the time CS premiered tv westerns were already going the way of the non-Spaghetti western movie, victims of over-saturation and a maturing baby-boom generation that by and large was indifferent towards the genre.

[@gtpmmk]

Loved the show but.....No man EVER looked bigger on a horse. I mean LOOK at him!! He's HUGE! Me and my friend at the time use to crack up wondering if that poor horse had to carry him every show. That opening has always been entrenched my mind. Thank's for the visual cause I cant stop laughing. The horse looks like it want to say "Get off me!!"

[@larryperkins-o1p]

This thebest one