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Frontier Circus (1961)
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Frontier Circus is an American Western television series about a traveling circus roaming the American West in the 1880s. Filmed by Revue Productions, the program aired on the CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962.
Style:
suspense
Plot:
circus, carnival, outlaw, survival, rodeo, wild west, travel, train, hunter, traveling circus, van, wagon train, town, old west, city, frontier, horseback, saloon, arizona territory
Time:
1880s, 19th century
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
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