Andrew Fenady created The Yank as a companion for The Rebel. ABC was interested, but when they wanted to combine the two for the 1961-2 season, Mark Goodson & Bill Todman balked, and shopped Yank to NBC. ABC answered by cancelling Rebel.
As it was, NBC wasn't interested, and so the pilot you're about to see never aired.
James Drury, two years away from revisiting The Virginian, this time in a hit series for Universal/Revue and NBC, headlines as Matthew Dorn, who returns to Columbia, South Carolina, only to find hostility.....
Would this have worked? I don't think so. Good try, though.
Rating: B-.
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