The Saga of Andy Burnett  1957 - 1958

The Saga of Andy Burnett

Unlike “Davy Crockett” or the Disney Westerns to come, “Andy Burnett” was not based on actual fact but came from the historical stories of Stewart Edward White first serialized in Saturday Evening Post. All episodes have Intro From Walt Himself.

Lanky juvenile Jerome Courtland portrayed Andy, an aspiring frontiersman from western Pennsylvania who traveled west in the 1820s to become a mountain man in the Blackfoot Indian Territory. Burly Jeff York as Joe Crane, Andrew Duggan as Jack Kelly and Slim Pickens as Old Bill Williams were Andy’s mountain men mentors. Six 60 minute color episodes were shown through 3/12/58 on Wednesday nights from 7:30-8:30 ET on the fourth season of “Walt Disney Presents.

Andy’s saga focuses on the mountain side of White’s stories more than the migration to California. For TV Andy never expresses an intention to travel to the coast but seeks to settle permanently in the mountains. The first three episodes delineate Andy’s migration from east to the Rocky Mountains while the next three episodes relate problems with the Indians.

The quality of this set is Very Nice

Episodes
1 – Andy's Initiation – Oct 2 -1957
2 – Andy's First Chore - Oct 9 -1957
3 – Andy's Love Affair - Oct 16 -1957
4 – The Land of Enemies - Feb 26 – 1958
5 – White Man's Medicine - March 5 – 1958
6 – The Big Council - March 16 – 1958