The Quest (1976) (TV)

Director:

Lee H. Katzin

Writer:

Tracy Keenan Wynn (writer)

Release Date:

13 May 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Two brothers search the west for their sister, who was kidnapped as a child and is now living with a tribe of Indians. |

Plot Keywords:

TV Series Pilot | Remake

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Kurt Russell	...	Morgan 'Two Persons' Bodeen
Tim Matheson	...	Quinton Beaudine
Brian Keith	...	Tank Logan
Keenan Wynn	...	H.H. Small
Cameron Mitchell	...	Shadrack Peltzer
Morgan Woodward	...	Sheriff Moses
Neville Brand	...	Shea
Art Lund	...	Blanchard
John Anderson	...	Army officer
Will Hutchins	...	Earl
Luke Askew	...	Crane
Gregory Walcott	...	Blacksmith
Irene Yah-Ling Sun	...	China
Mark Lambert	...	Young punk
Iron Eyes Cody	...	Old Indian

Also Known As:

The Longest Drive (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:PG (video rating)

Filming Locations:

Arizona, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Television

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: The legend of the Bodine brothers has etched itself into frontier history in the last quarter of the 19th Century. Morgan "Two Persons" Beaudine, captured by Cheyenne and freed eight years later by the army; Quentin Beaudine, a young doctor from San Francisco...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels' (2004) (TV)

Too bad the series was cancelled

The '70s was a bad decade for the television Western. Bonanza

was cancelled a year after the death of Dan Blocker, The Cowboys, based on the John Wayne movie, which was based on the book, was cancelled, and it's too bad this series, based on the John

Ford movie The Searchers, was also cancelled. Why? Low ratings, for one reason, and probably Vietnam, for another. It's the story of two brothers. Quentin Bodeen, played by Tim Matheson, the voice of Jonny Quest in the 1960s, and Morgan Two Persons Bodeen, who, with their unnamed sister, were taken from a west-bound

wagon train by Indians when they were little. Morgan, who was

raised by the Indians, meets his brother, Quentin, a cowboy, ten years later. Neither knew that the other existed. Morgan tells him that they have a sister, who was also taken from the wagon train. The two of them set out across the West to find her and bring her back to white society. Did they find her? I don't know. The show

was cancelled after three or four episodes.