At the time I am writing this the new CBS TV show Jericho starring Skeet Ulrich and Gerald McRaney has just come on with its first episode. The show is about a small town that finds itself cut off from the outside world when a nuclear bomb explodes. Skeet is the prodigal son who comes back home just for a visit and to get the inheritance his Grandfather left him. However, there is some bad blood between him and his Dad, who happens to be the town Mayor. So I doubt he will get his inheritance. With the bomb going off it won’t do him much good anyway. With them not knowing if they are the last people left on the planet or not they now will have to face the problems they have in their little town. After all there is no place for them to run.
The reason I am writing about this show is that 40 years ago on September 15, 1966 CBS aired another TV series called Jericho. It is very coincidental I think that 40 years apart there are 2 shows with the same name that aired on the same network and they really have nothing to do with each other.
The one from 1966 was a war time drama. It starred Don Francks, Marino Mase and John Leyton. They were three Allied agents during World War II. They went undercover behind enemy lines and took on saboteurs, espionage agents and did intelligence gathering.
The first Jericho didn’t last long. It was canceled and aired its last episode on January 19, 1967. I don’t think this one will do much better. While this first episode looks pretty good it seems like it makes a better made for TV movie then it does a series. I could be wrong. The next few months will tell.
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