The Young Riders
Premiere date:September 20, 1989
Starring:Ty Miller, Josh Brolin ... More
Description:One of the few TV western series of the 1980s, The Young Riders was set in 1860, the year of the formation of the mail service popularly known as the Pony Express. Anthony Zerbe headed the cast as Teaspoon Hunter, a grizzled old campaigner with an unsavory past who ran a prairie station of the Central Overland Express, which spanned a distance from Missouri to California. Located first in Sweetwater, Wyoming and later in Rock Creek, Nebraska, Hunter's outpost employed several very young and very-good looking riders, several of whom would go on to either fame or notoriety in the post-Civil War West. Ty Miller played the lead rider, a hothead known only as The Kid (it was not-so-subtly hinted that he was actually Billy the Kid). His coworkers included Stephen Baldwin as Billy Cody, who would in the future affix the designation "Buffalo" to his first name; Josh Brolin as Jimmy Hickok, a fast gun who would one day achieve prominence as "Wild Bill" Hickok; and, when the ... Read more
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With the Civil War looming, Cody enlists as a Union scout.
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