With Sam Elliot, David Soul, Edward Albert, Noah Beery, Ken Curtis, Tom Schanley, Michele Bennett, Cybill Shepherd, Will Sampson, Karen Carlson, Scott Hylands, Barney McFadden, Chuck Connors, Herb Jefferson Jr.
It's got guts, romance, jealousy, greed, suspense, intrigue and more guts. In short, 'The Yellow Rose' has all the ingredients, and then some, needed to become another successful primetime soap.
No ordinary serial, this. Out there on the west Texas range, where a 200,000-acre ranch can be won in a night of gambling, characters are numerous and well defined. For example, take the interloper, Chance (Sam Elliott), a rugged cowpoke of dubious character but probably destined to become a positive influence in a setting full of ne'er-do-wells. He's quiet, smooth and good looking.
The place is run by the owner's comely widow (Cybil Shepherd), the obliging object of everyones affections, and her two stepsons (David Soul and Edward Albert). It's being eyed covetously by a wealthy neighbour (Chuck Connors) who considers it his birthright. Numerous other colorful ranch-hands are also billed, including veterans Ken Curtis and Noah Beery......
TV Guide, September, 1983
Take a 200.000-acre spread in West Texas with oil beneath, add cattle and thoroughbread horses and sprinkle generously with hard men and lusty women. What you have is a modern Western, a sort of hybrid of Rawhide and Dallas. The Champion family owns the Yellow Rose, but when old Wade Champion, who won the spread in a poker game, died, he declared: "I don't wanna see no iron rocking horses on land God intended for cattle." That means that his young widow, Colleen, and oldest son Roy (David Soul), must keep the ranch in the black - without black gold - in spite of oil baron Jeb Hollister (Chuck Connors), who lost the poker game and will stop at nothing to regain his birthright. Luckily, there are some good hands on the ranch, including the mysterious Chance (Sam Elliot), who shows up one day after doing a seven-year stretch for murder. He has a way with broncs and bulls, not to mention women, including chief cook Gracie (Susan Anspach). He also has Gary Cooper's way with words. When Colleen finds him kissing Gracie in the cookhouse and asks if he's skipped straight to desert, Chance replies: "No, ma'am, this is just the appetizer."
With Sam Elliot, David Soul, Edward Albert, Noah Beery, Ken Curtis, Tom Schanley, Michele Bennett, Cybill Shepherd, Will Sampson, Karen Carlson, Scott Hylands, Barney McFadden, Chuck Connors, Herb Jefferson Jr.
Take a 200.000-acre spread in West Texas with oil beneath, add cattle and thoroughbread horses and sprinkle generously with hard men and lusty women. What you have is a modern Western, a sort of hybrid of Rawhide and Dallas. The Champion family owns the Yellow Rose, but when old Wade Champion, who won the spread in a poker game, died, he declared: "I don't wanna see no iron rocking horses on land God intended for cattle." That means that his young widow, Colleen, and oldest son Roy (David Soul), must keep the ranch in the black - without black gold - in spite of oil baron Jeb Hollister (Chuck Connors), who lost the poker game and will stop at nothing to regain his birthright. Luckily, there are some good hands on the ranch, including the mysterious Chance (Sam Elliot), who shows up one day after doing a seven-year stretch for murder. He has a way with broncs and bulls, not to mention women, including chief cook Gracie (Susan Anspach). He also has Gary Cooper's way with words. When Colleen finds him kissing Gracie in the cookhouse and asks if he's skipped straight to desert, Chance replies: "No, ma'am, this is just the appetizer."