When I was a kid at school we all played this out in the playground. The show was about in England in the late sixties, about 1968 or 1969 – an American television production about one of its nation’s legendary historical figures, General Custer. As a little boy – all dirty and scabby knees, I ran around the playground pretending to be Custer looking for Indians. We all thought the series was real and did not realise until we got the Errol Flynn movie, one weekend that Custer got killed at Little Big Horn by Crazy Horse.
Well, I was totally gob-smacked and felt conned by the makers of the tv show. I know Custer and Crazy Horse did not see eye to eye with each other, but in the tv show, they ran into each other every week and seemed to have begrudging adventures together. At the end of the episode, Custer and Crazy Horse would part company on even terms. Custer went back to the fort for coffee and medals and Crazy Horse went back to his wigwam for a pipe and a new feather.
Still the little boy in me would like to see one episode again, just for the nostalgia of it all.
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