TV series

Centennial

Name: Centennial
Released: 1978
Cast: Robert Conrad, Richard Chamberlain, Sally Kellerman, Barbara Carrera, Richard Crenna

1978–1979· 1 season· 90 min episodesTV-PG★ 7.7Ended

On NBC — From Universal Television · Universal Television Entertainment

Their Passion Blazed Across Seven Generations

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Synopsis

The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late 1970s.

Themes

based on novel or book colorado fur trapping miniseries wild west family saga

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E1 Only the Rocks Live ForeverNext upOct 1, 1978 · 138 min
Synopsis
A feisty Quebec trapper meets Arapaho Chief Lame Beaver in his travels throughout the American West. Thus beginning a series of relationships that create a timeline of adventures from the late 1700's to the 20th century. On a trip to St. Louis to sell his wares, he encounters the wealthy silversmith Herman Bockweiss (Raymond Burr) and enters a partnership with him to bring guns and silver to the Indians. He agrees to marry Bockweiss' daughter Lise (Sally Kellerman) and leaves shortly thereafter to return to his trapping trade. He encounters and saves the life of his future partner, Alexander McKeag (Richard Chamberlain), a Scotsman attempting to escape his past. They make their way to an Arapaho camp where McKeag, who has been injured, is tended by Chief Lame Beaver's daughter, Clay Basket (Barbara Carrera). They fall in love, but she instead marries Pasquinel at her father's request. Accompanied by Clay Basket, the partners set out in search of Pasquinel's true desire - gold.
Guest stars: Michael Ansara (Lame Beaver)
E2 The Yellow ApronOct 8, 1978 · 90 min
Synopsis
In spite of mounting tensions between the races, Pasquinel, McKeag and the Indians continue a profitable releationship in trading. Clay Basket bears Pasquinel two sons, Jacques and Marcel, while back in St. Louis, Lise gives birth to Pasquinel's daughter, Lisette. Pasquinel continues his obsessive search for Lame Beaver's gold, while McKeag and Clay Basket are secretly in love with each other, but her honor in marriage to Pasquinel won't allow her to reveal it to McKeag.
E3 The Wagon and the ElephantOct 28, 1978 · 92 min
Synopsis
1845: In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, young Mennonite Levi Zendt heads out west with his bride-to-be Elly Zamm. On the wagon train and in St. Louis they meet young English writer Oliver Seccombe and Army Captain Maxwell Mercy - who is married to Lisette, Pasquinel's daughter. McKeag weds Clay Basket and adopts her half-breed daughter Lucinda. While on the wagon train, guide Samuel Purchase tries to rape Elly, causing Levi and Elly to leave it, meeting McKeag and later establish the settlement of the town Centennial.
E4 For as Long as the Water FlowsNov 4, 1978 · 92 min
Synopsis
Driven by the grief over his wife's death, Levi boards himself up in the desolate cabin once used by McKeag and Pasquinel in their early trapping days. Clay Basket and McKeag soon send their daughter Lucinda to bring him to their home. Eventually, Levi and Lucinda fall in love and marry. Meanwhile, Hans Brumbaugh arrives from Germany to seek gold.
E5 The MassacreNov 11, 1978 · 92 min
Synopsis
1861: War sweeps the country, the Civil War in the North and South, in the West the Pasquinel brothers, Jacques and Marcel are raiding and murdering soldiers and homesteaders. Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn, an officer in the Wyoming militia arrives in Centennial with intent on killing all Indians.
E6 The LonghornsDec 3, 1978 · 94 min
Synopsis
Representing a group of British investors, Oliver Seccombe arrives in Centennial with money to start a cattle ranch. He hires John Skimmerhorn to get some men and launch a large cattle drive to the West's largest cattle ranch, the Venneford. Skimmerhorn hires R.J. Poteet, an experienced trail boss, who picks a handful of seasoned drovers and young trail hands.
E7 The ShepherdsDec 10, 1978 · 88 min
Synopsis
The late 1800's, Hans Brumbaugh leads the farmers in the war against the wealthy ranchers and cattlemen led by Oliver Seccombe. Messmore Garrett settles in Centennial with thousands of sheep and more competition against the cattlemen. The new sheriff, Dumire can't stop the fight from both sides. Charlotte Buckland, the daughter of one of the Venneford Ranch's British owners, arrives in America and falls in love with Seccombe.
E8 The StormJan 14, 1979 · 90 min
Synopsis
Mervin Wendell, his wife Maude and son Philip, a theatrical / professional con man comes to Centennial. Jim Lloyd is in love with Levi Zendt's beautiful, but wild daughter Clemma and pursues her. Meanwhile, the British investors have sent Scottish accountant Finlay Perkin to the Venneford Ranch to do an audit. Not able to understand Seccombe's accounting or spendage of running a cattle ranch, he accuses him of thief.
Guest stars: Robert Phalen (Rev. Holly), Clive Revill (Finlay Perkin)
E9 The CrimeJan 21, 1979 · 92 min
Synopsis
The Wendells easily con the people of Centennial, while blackmailing Reverend Holly. The Wendell son, Philip idolizes Sheriff Dumire, who is investegating the disappearance and possible murder of a traveling businessman, carrying a briefcase full of money. Newly widowed Charlotte Seccombe, returns to England briefly, but returns to run the Venneford Ranch. Meanwhile, Hans Brumbaugh, with the help of Japanese laborers has built his farm into a successful potatoe farm.
Guest stars: Robert Phalen (Rev. Holly), Alan Napier (Lord Venneford), Clive Revill (Finlay Perkin)
E10 The Winds of FortuneJan 28, 1979 · 91 min
Synopsis
Charlotte Seccombe and Jim Lloyd fall in love, while Zendt's troubled daughter Clemma returns. The notorious Pettis gang arrive for a showdown with Sheriff Dumire. Hans Brumbaugh's Japanese laborers quit him to follow after their own dreams of owning their own farms.
Guest stars: Robert Phalen (Rev. Holly), Joaquín Martínez (Capt. Salcedo), Julio Medina (Father Gravez), Clive Revill (Finlay Perkin), Greg Mullavey (Mule Canby)
E11 The Winds of DeathFeb 3, 1979 · 94 min
Synopsis
Early 1900's, Mervin Wendell has become a real estate tycoon by selling promises on land that barely produces any growth to young naive families from the East. While Charlotte Lloyd takes up the Mexican residents' cause at defending their rights.
Guest stars: Geoffrey Lewis (Sheriff Bogardus), Morgan Paull (Philip Wendell as Adult), Julie Sommars (Alice Grebe), William Bogert (Walter Bellamy), Lynn Borden (Vesta Volkema), Alan Caillou (Booth-Clibborn), Claude Jarman Jr. (Earl Grebe)
E12 The Scream of EaglesFeb 4, 1979 · 142 min
Synopsis
1978: Historian Professor Lew Vernor and writer Sidney Enderman arrive to do a article on Centennial. Paul Garrett, the current owner of the Venneford Ranch and a direct descendant of Pasquinel, tells them the history of the town. Morgan Wendell, son of Philip is running for the newly formed office of Commissioner of Resources and Priorities for the State of Colorado. When it is realized that Wendell is running only for the money and power, Garrett is persuaded to run against him.
Guest stars: James Best, Michael Ansara (Lame Beaver)