The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

(ABC, 9/13/1972, 90 mins). An amiable Western about a rascally fur trapper (Buddy Ebsen) who, in a scheme to keep his landholdings in the wake of a homesteading law, recruits a prostitute, a thief and a pickpocket to portray his daughters. Two sequels to this film later would follow.

Production Company Spelling-Goldberg Productions. Director Philip Leacock. Executive Producers Aaron Spelling, Leonard Goldberg. Producer Richard E. Lyons. Teleplay Paul Savage. Photography Arch R. Dalzell. Music Jeff Alexander. Editor Art Seid. Art Director Bud Brooks. Associate Producer Robert Monroe.

Cast Buddy Ebsen (Joshua Cabe), Karen Valentine (Charity), Lesley Ann Warren (Mae), Sandra Dee (Ada), Don Stroud (Blue Wetherall), Henry Jones (Codge Collier), Jack Elam (Bitterroot), Leif Erickson (Amos Wetherall), Michael Anderson Jr. (Cole Wetherall), Paul Koslo (Deke Wetherall), Julie Mannix (Sister Mary Robert), Ron Soble (Arnie), William Katt (Billy Jack), Claudia Bryar (Warden Tippet), Eve McVeagh (Mother Superior), Erin O’Brien Moore (Matron).