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SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS

Richard Dean Anderson as Adam McFadden
Drake Hogestyn as Brian McFadden
Peter Horton as Crane McFadden
Roger Wilson as Daniel McFadden
Tim Topper as Evan McFadden
Bryan Utman as Ford McFadden
River Phoenix as Guthrie McFadden
Terri Treas as Hannah Moss-McFadden

Executive Producer: David Gerber
Theme & original songs by: Jimmy Webb
) Terri Treas as Hannah Moss-McFadden


Episode 1
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
Pilot Episode (90 minutes)

California's Mother Lode country provides the backdrop for a series about a contemporary family of ranchers. Taking time out for music and dance like the 1954 MGM musical, the opener tells how a spirited cafe waitress learns - after the fact - that she has married into a parentless but self-sufficient brood of rowdy brothers.

Written by: Sue Grafton and Steven Humphrey
Directed by: Gary Nelson

Guest Starring: Jerry Gatlin as Tillis, Pat Kelly as Fair Official, Michael Alldredge as Wheeler, Joan Kjar as Marie, Walter Robles as Clyde, Peter James Griggs as Announcer,


Episode 2
THE MAN IN THE WHITE HAT

Having pursuaded his brothers to borrow heavily to buy grain at a low price and store it in Freleng's Warehouse, Crane feels resposible for the family's financial distress after the grain is seized when Freleng files bankruptcy. Crane is arrested and jailed for instigating ranchers to raid the warehouse tp take their grain back when it is seized by the authorities. At his court hearing, ordered by the judge to identify his co-conspirators in the raid, Crane refuses, taking full responsibility and maintaining that, in this case, the law perversly harmed innocent citizens.

Written by: Marshall Herskovitz
Directed by: James Sheldon

Guest Starring: Amy Steel as Allison Freleng, Dana Elcar as Judge Carlson, , Ian Patrick Williams as David Schiller, Philip Baker Hall as Prosecutor, Don Eitner as Freleng, William Lucking as Corsini, Charles Napier as Marshal, Richard Young as Deerwell, Peter James Griggs as Dewey, Cliff Olsen as Jail Guard, Muriel Brown as Mrs. Sutter, Steve Jesse Starr as Deputy, Dennis Mosier as Bailiff, J.B. Barney as Emil




Episode 3
CHALLENGES
With Hannah pushing him, Ford struggles to overcome his shyness and ask pretty Cleo to a barn dance. Meanwhile, Evan's self-confidence is challenged when his hero, former rodeo champion Cooper Johnson, twice rejects him in rodeo-class tryouts. Later, Adam and Hannah fight over fight over the difference between encouraging and badgering: Hannah accuses Adam of pushing Evan to try one more time to get into Cooper's class and Adam says Hannah is forcing Ford into dating girls when he's not ready yet.

Written by: Mitzie Marvin
Directed by: Harvey S. Laidman
Guest Starring: Hoyt Axton as Cooper Johnson, Melissa Michaelsen as Cleo, Eric Stoltz as Kevin, Brad Savage as Stu


Episode 4
I LOVE YOU MOLLY McGRAW
When Evan's horse, Diablo, suffers a broken leg, pretty Molly McGraw is the only veterinarian available to perform the surgery that's needed. She and Crane fall head over heels for each other, but Crane's stubborn McFadden pride resists Molly soon after she tells him that she has received the internship in equinw surgery that she has been seeking.- a commitment that means she will have to leave California and move back east.

Directed by: Vincent McEveety

Guest Starring: Ann Dusenberry as Molly McGraw, Robert Symonds as Dr. Markell, Jerry Black as Anesthesiologist



Episode 5
GOLD FEVER
Ford has been signed by a talent scout to be a back-up singer. Meanwhile, Guthrie, anxious to contribute something as the McFaddens try to scrape up the money for a new roof, hit upon panning for gold. When he chances on two armed men seeming to be prospecting downstream, he goes along with their idea that he team up with them, not knowing that they are in fact poachers, shooting bears out of season, and that they are wanted by the authorities.

Written by: Joseph Anderson
Directed by: Vincent McEveety

Guest Starring: Carlos Brown as Ace, Tracey Walter as Lucky, Jeanne Mockridge as Donna Jo James


Episode 6
DANIEL'S SONG
Daniel lucks into a gig with a country-rock group featuring a dynamite singer who simply blows his mind.

Written by: C.E. Lewis
Directed by: Bernard Kowalski

Guest Starring: Lisa Blount as Tally Dean, Daryl Anderson as Spider, Scotch Byerley as Charlie, Michael Savage as J.J., Joan Kjar as Marie, George Burrafato as Cal



Episode 7
A HOUSE DIVIDED
Just before a big game, Adam, As the eldest, removes Brian from the family's mountain polo team because of Brian's reckless showing-off on horseback. An angry Brian goes on a bender and ends up in jail. The arguement between Adam and Brian causes a rift among some of the brothers as well, who regard Brian as the best athlete in the family and crucial to the team. It especially disturbs young Guthrie, who idolizes both of his brothers.

Written by: Sue Grafton and Steven Humphrey
Directed by: Vincent McEveety

Guest Starring: Dave Cass as Jed, Frank Schuller as Deputy, David Wells as Reporter, Joan Kjar as Marie


Episode 8
RODEO
Evan's school work suffers when he concentrates on his rodeo classes - and on a classmate who's already quit school to ride the circuit.

Written by: Sue Grafton and Steven Humphrey
Directed by: Ivan Dixon
Guest Starring: Hoyt Axton as Cooper Johnson


Episode 9
CATCH A FALLING STAR
Daniel befriends Stormy Weather, an alcoholic former country music star whom he idolizes. He tries to help him get back on his feet and resume his career, but Stormy's presence creates a bitter conflict within the family. Several of the brothers think that he is wasting his time on Stormy, whom they consider a loser, and that Stormy's drinking is a bad influence on Guthrie.

Written by: Paul Erhmann
Directed by: Peter Levin

Guest Starring: Levon Helm as Stormy Weathers, Victor Hall as Rackley, James Mathers as Redneck, Suza Lambert as Woman Redneck, John Allen Vick as Bar Owner, Terry Donovan-Smith as Rick Marcus


Episode 10
THE ELECTION
The McFaddens are up in arms after Guthrie is poisoned by polluted water in a stream on their property, but when long-time shriff of Carbon County, Buck Tanner, stalls and delays the promised investigations, Adam concludes that he must be protecting someone, and decides to run for office himself. As he begins his campaign, however, Adam finds that certain parties in the county will stop at nothing to destroy his candidacy.

Written by: Ira Steven Behr
Directed by: Michael O'Herlihy

Guest Starring: Macon McCalman as Sheriff Turner, Frank Schuller as Deputy Charlie, Denny Delk as Ben Toby


Episode 11
NEIGHBORS
Soon after Sophie Barton, a beautiful young divorcee and single parent from San Francisco, moves into the run-down ranch that she has inherited down the road from the McFadden spread, she and Hannah become friends. But sparks fly when Sophie tells Adam that he can no longer graze McFadden cattle on her land, breaking an agreement going back 30 years between her grandfather and Adam's father, and soon she is placed in peril by a stampede and barn-burning.

Directed by: Peter Levin

Guest Starring: Laraine Stephens as Sophie, Billy Jacoby as Eddie
Songs: Men, Men, Amen by Jimmy Webb (sung by Terri Treas and Laraine Stephens), and Now That I Found You by Jimmy Webb (sung by Roger Wilson, Tim Topper and Peter Horton)


Episode 12
DREAMS
A footloose cowhand sparks Brian to dream of a similar life. Meanwhile, Evan is "sentenced" to a girls' dancing class by his football coach.

Written by: Marshall Herskovitz
Directed by: John Florea

Guest Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Richard McMurray as Graves, Drew Snyder as Coach, Jim Steck as


Episode 13
CHRISTMAS SONG
At Christmas time, Meg Palmer, recently widowed and working job to job to support her kids, mistakes Crane's and Daniel's intentions when they try to help whenher car breaks down., and lashes out at them. She soon accepts the McFadden family's generosity as genuine, but faces the struggle of her life as her deceased husband's parents sue for custody of her three children.

Directed by: Peter Levin

Guest Starring: Kaz Garas as Ray Mason, Tige Andrews as Merlin Palmer, Tonya Crowe as B.J. Palmer, Kaz Garas as Ray Mason


Episode 14
HERITAGE
Hannah"s impassioned protest and armed stand against the bulldozer demolition of the oldest building in Murphy, the original schoolhouse where her great-grandmother once taught, falls on deaf ears, even among the McFadden men. A factory is to be built in its place and jobs mean more to many of the families than presrving a bit of local history, even though the construction company gained the title by unscrupulous means. Meanwhile, Guthrie runs into a mini-scandal when hi frog, "Loser", is stolen just before the First Annual Carbon Coounty Frog-Jumping Derby. (Calaveras County, where this series is filmed, was the sire of Mark Twain's famous jumping-frog tale).

Written by: Richard Fielder
Directed by: John Patterson

Guest Starring: John Bennett Perry as Eckworth, Robin Ignico as Kate, John Callahan as TV Reporter, Gail Trotter as Millie


Episode 15
PROMISED LAND
An illegal farm worker - pregnant and on the run from killers - finds refuge with the McFaddens

Written by:
Directed by: John Patterson

Guest Starring: Jim Haynie as Reed, Theresa Saldana as Angelina, Nate Esformes as Gomez, Israel Juarbe as Guillermo


Episode 16
THE KILLER
Brian teaches Guthrie how to hunt and also to respect all wild life, but Guthrie is not sure he could shoot to kill. Several days later, Adam risks being mauled when he and his brothers track and corner "Old Scarback", a wounded mountain lion suspected of killing local livestock. When Adam is knocked unconscious in a fall, Guthrie is forced to make a life-or-death decision when he sees the lion afeter Adam.

Written by: Jud Scott
Directed by: Barry Crane

Guest Starring: Grainger Hines as Sheriff, William Smith as John Clagston,


Episode 17
DEADLY HIGH
It's harvest time for the marijuana crops hidden in the hills - and the growers there are playing for keeps.

Written by:
Directed by: John Patterson

Guest Starring: Jo McDonnell as P.J., Robert Dryer as Mace, Robert Carnegie as Harley, Grainger Hines as Sheriff


Episode 18
THE RESCUE
During a blizzard, the sheriff asks Hannah and four others trained in first-aid to fly to an isolated mountain community where botulism has broken out. When the plane goes down and raio contact is lost, Adam sets out to backpack into the mountains to find themm against the advice of the National Guard. Meanwhile, Hannah calls on her inner strength to help,keep the survivors, including the gravely wounded pilot, alive and hopeful of rescue.

Written by: Jud Scott
Directed by: Barry Crane

Guest Starring: Grainger Hines as Sheriff, Gregg Henry as John Heflin, Sands Hall as Louise Wright, Sharon Madden as Maryann Conway,


Episode 19
WINTER ROSES
As Adam prepares for a dangerous off-road race, Hannah discovers she's pregnant.
Written by: Michael Petryni
Directed by: John Florea

Guest Starring: Peter Jason as John Cutler, Timothy Scott as Walt Henry, John Moio as Shep Shaffer, Ruth Johnson as Florist, Walter Leinecke as Doctor


Episode 20
WINNER
Adam's high-school reunion coincides with an outbreak of rustling that takes six head of the McFaddens' cattle. As he, Brian and Crane arm themselves to lead the search for the rustlers, Adam can't help but wonder at the coincidence that his old friend, Mike, after years away, returns to start up a cattle ranch.

Written by:
Directed by: Barry Crane

Guest Starring: Brian Kerwin as Mike, Brett Cullen as Hoops, Taylor Lacher as Deputy Sykes


Episode 21
A RING FOR HANNAH
Daniel's idea is to carry on the family tradition and find enough small gold nuggets to fahion a ring for Hannah. In spite of the warnings from the owner of The Howling Man Gold Mine, Daniel and his younger brothers go into the mine to find the nuggets. When the mine collapses, Daniel is able to free himself and bears all the blame from the mine owner whose daughter is trapped with Evan, Ford, and Guthrie, and rescuers fear a total collapse at any time.

Written by: Joe Viola
Directed by: James Sheldon

Guest Starring: Taylor Lacher as Deputy Sykes ,Louanne as Jenny Barrett, Charles Aidman as Tom Barrett, Anne Gee Byrd as Carey Barrett


Episode 22
ROUNDUP
As the McFaddens prepare for a cattle roundup in the high country, where packs of rabid coyotes have been attacking the herd, Adam decides that Hannah's proper place is at the ranch with Guthrie, and that Daniel, who wants to stay behind to rehearse for a big audition, has to go. When Hannah shows up anyway, Adam's irritation and Daniel's simmering frustrationboil over into a family feud, leading Adam to send Hannah back to the ranch. Later, Hannah, Unarmed must defend Evan, who has been knocked unconscious in a fall, from a rabid coyote.

Written by: Earl Wallace
Directed by: John Patterson


Guest Starring: