Please click the link below for Amazon warehouse deals andbr every click helps keep this channel running and commercial br free, every purchase you make at Amazon after clicking the br link keeps this channel running and free from commercials br and annoying playlists.br br br . My Friend Flicka is a 39-episode western televisionbr series set at the fictitious Goose Bar Ranch in Wyomingbr at the turn of the 20th century. The program was filmed br in color but initially aired in black and white on CBS atbr 7:30 p.m. Fridays from February 10, 1956, to February 1,br 1957. It was a mid-season replacement for Gene Autry'sbr The Adventures of Champion. Both series failed in the br ratings against ABC's The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.br br After the initial Friday airing, viewers could stillbr find the series on CBS Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern br during March 1957, on Sundays at 6 p.m. from April tobr May 1957, and on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. from June br to August 1957. NBC carried the program in color at br 6:30 p.m. Sunday from September to December 1957 and br at 7 p.m. Sunday from January to May 1958.[2] Inbr subsequent years, the series aired mostly on Saturdaybr mornings on all networks. The Disney Channel ran itbr on Monday evenings in the mid-1980s. Over the years br many viewers were unaware that the series produced br episodes for only a single season.br br My Friend Flicka starred native Canadian Johnnybr Washbrook as Ken McLaughlin, a boy devoted to hisbr horse Flicka, Swedish for "girl", but actually an br Arabian chestnut named Wahana. Gene Evans playedbr the authoritarian father Rob McLaughlin, a formerbr U.S. Army cavalry officer. Anita Louise was cast br as the gentle-spirited mother, Nell. Frank Ferguson br portrayed Gus Broeberg, the loyal Swedish ranch hand. br Flicka is based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, written at br the Remount Ranch, located between Laramie and Cheyennebr , Wyoming. Some Internet sites say that the series is br set in Montana, where some of the filming was done. The br majority of the filming, however, was at Fox Movie Ranch.br My Friend Flicka holds the distinction of having been the br first television series filmed by 20th Century Fox. A br 1943 film, My Friend Flicka, starred Roddy McDowall as Ken.br br Johnny Washbrook guested on several TV shows after the seriesbr ended, and acted into the 1970s then went into banking. He br has appeared in several western celebrity signing shows in br the U.S. lately, and lives with his family in Martha's br Vineyard.Sydney Mason appeared on My Friend Flicka several br times as Sheriff Downey. Robert Adler appeared five timesbr in different roles; Claude Akins, three times, and Hugh br Beaumont, Tiger Fafara and Denver Pyle, twice. Pamela Baird br appeared in ten episodes as Hildy Broeberg. Beaumont,br Fafara, and Baird later had roles on the sitcom Leave br It to Beaver.