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* CampCook: The circus' cook was called Cookie. He plays a major role in "The Shaggy Kings" when the circus' food supply is poisoned.
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* RetiredGunfighter: Tom Jace in "The Shaggy Kings".
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* ThatManIsDead: In "The Shaggy Kings", RetiredGunfighter Tom Jace is living under the name Michael Smith. Every time someone accuses him of being Jace, he replies that "Tom Jace is dead".
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In "The Shaggy Kings", a renegade Indian poisoning the circus' meat supply in order to force them to divert to Adobe Walls.
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* MountainMan: In "The Shaggy Kings", Ben and Tony team up with a group of buffalo hunters. This includes an old mountain man named Tiber who laments how the West has changed since he first arrived.
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* TheCavalry: Casey and a gang of roustabouts come charging to Ben and Tony's rescue when they are pinned down by enemy gunfire while attempting to escape from the mine in "Patriarch of Purgatory".
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* CoolHorse: "Lippizan" centres around Ben's quest to find a replacement cool horse for the circus's blind equestrian after he accidentally causes the death of her horse. At the the end of the episode, the horse - King - single-handedly fights off a wolf pack.
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* CoolHorse: "Lippizan" centres around Ben's quest to find a replacement cool horse for the circus's blind equestrian after he accidentally causes the death of her horse. At the the end of the episode, the horse - King - single-handedly fights off a wolf pack. pack.
* CorruptHick: "Patriarch of Purgatory" features a religious fanatic who is the mayor of the eponymous town and who runs a mine that uses a slave labour force of Chinese. He imprisons Ben and Tony in the mine after they get too close to the truth.
* CorruptHick: "Patriarch of Purgatory" features a religious fanatic who is the mayor of the eponymous town and who runs a mine that uses a slave labour force of Chinese. He imprisons Ben and Tony in the mine after they get too close to the truth.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The town of Purgatory in "Patriarch of Purgatory".
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* PowderTrail: Used by Ben and Tony as part of their plan to break out of the mine in "Patriarch of Purgatory".
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* ThereWillBeToiletPaper: Happens to Casey when he attempts to shave while hungover in "Patriarch of Purgatory".
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* RoadSignReversal: In "Winter Quarters", horse thieves move one of Tony's trail markers to send the circus up the wrong trail and strand them on top of a mountain.
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* GilliganCut: In "Journey From Hannibal", Casey tells Bertha that there is no way the conductor is going to throw him, her and the elephant off the train. The next shot is off Casey, Bertha and the elephant standing beside the tracks as the train pulls away.
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* RoadTripPlot: In "Journey From Hannibal", Casey has to pick up an elephant from Hannibal, Missouri and deliver it to the circus in Bismarck, Dakota Territory.
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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: "Journey From Hannibal" is set partially in Hannibal, Missouri. When Casey steps off the train, mountains are visible in the background. And the Mississipi River is curiously absent.
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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: "Journey From Hannibal" is set partially in Hannibal, Missouri. When Casey steps off the train, mountains are visible in the background. And the Mississipi Mississippi River is curiously absent.absent.
* NoMoreForMe: In "Journey From Hannibal", Casey leads an elephant into the small frontier town of Medicine Pole. The town drunk staggers out of the saloon holding a bottle, looks at the elephant, and immediately smashes the bottle before staggering away.
* NoMoreForMe: In "Journey From Hannibal", Casey leads an elephant into the small frontier town of Medicine Pole. The town drunk staggers out of the saloon holding a bottle, looks at the elephant, and immediately smashes the bottle before staggering away.
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* TheMountainsOfIllinois: "Journey From Hannibal" is set partially in Hannibal, Missouri. When Casey steps off the train, mountains are visible in the background. And the Mississipi River is curiously absent.
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* MixAndMatch: Circus Drama + TheWestern.
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* CircusBrat: Of the regulars, Ben was born into the circus and has been with circuses all his life.
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* CircusBrat: Of the regulars, Ben was born into the circus and has been with circuses all his life. It is mentioned that several of the other performers coming from multiple generations of circus folk.
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* BatmanInMyBasement: In "Karina", Casey and Tony hide the runaway Karina in Casey's wagon, initially keeping her presence secret from Ben.
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* CircusBrat: Of the regulars, Ben was born into the circus and has been with circuses all his life.
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* FrontierDoctor: Frontier doctors feature in two successive episodes of ''Series/FrontierCircus''. In "Dr. Sam", a female doctor from back east temporarily joins the circus as circus doctor, hoping that the circus will grant her more freedom than the straitlaced world back east. In "The Hunter and the Hunted", Tony has to fetch a doctor after Casey is badly injured in an accident, only to find that the doctor is being hunted by a gang of outlaws.
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* FrontierDoctor: Frontier doctors feature in two successive episodes of ''Series/FrontierCircus''.episodes. In "Dr. Sam", a female doctor from back east temporarily joins the circus as circus doctor, hoping that the circus will grant her more freedom than the straitlaced world back east. In "The Hunter and the Hunted", Tony has to fetch a doctor after Casey is badly injured in an accident, only to find that the doctor is being hunted by a gang of outlaws.
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* TheRemnant: Jess Evans and his Confederate renegedes in "The Hunter and the Hunted". Refused a pardon after the Civil War, they moved west and have been living as outlaws. Several are StillWearingTheOldColors.
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* TheRemnant: Jess Evans and his Confederate renegedes renegades in "The Hunter and the Hunted". Refused a pardon after the Civil War, they moved west and have been living as outlaws. Several are StillWearingTheOldColors.
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* CompressedVice: In "Dr. Sam", Casey displays levels of chauvinism he never showed before or after, simply to drive the plot about a female doctor wanting to join the circus.
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* FrontierDoctor: Frontier doctors feature in two successive episodes of ''Series/FrontierCircus''. In "Dr. Sam", a female doctor from back east temporarily joins the circus as circus doctor, hoping that the circus will grant her more freedom than the straitlaced world back east. In "The Hunter and the Hunted", Tony has to fetch a doctor after Casey is badly injured in an accident, only to find that the doctor is being hunted by a gang of outlaws.
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* TheRemnant: Jess Evans and his Confederate renegedes in "The Hunter and the Hunted". Refused a pardon after the Civil War, they moved west and have been living as outlaws. Several are StillWearingTheOldColors.
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* GhostExtras: The nameless extras who made the majority of the performers and crew of the T & T Circus, who generally milled around spectating while the regulars and guest stars dealt with that week's plot.
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* WhiteStallion: In "Lippizan", Ben sets out to acquire a CoolHorse for the circus's blind equestrian after he accidentally causes the death of her Lippizan stallion. He eventually acquires, breaks and trains a white stallion named King that is half-Lippizan, half-Arabian wild stallion. At the end of the episode, King single-handedly fights off a wolf pack.
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Set in the Southwest during the late 1800's, ''Frontier Circus'' was a cross between a circus drama and a traditional Western. The T & T Circus, operated by Colonel Casey Thompson, traveled from town to town in a wagon train. Ben Travis was the straw boss who supervised the workmen, and Tony Gentry was the advance man, who scouted likely stopping places for the circus.
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Set in the Southwest during the late 1800's, ''Frontier Circus'' was a cross between a circus drama and a traditional Western. Western, and starred Chill Wills, John Derek and Richard Jaeckel. The T & T Circus, operated by Colonel Casey Thompson, Thompson (Wills), traveled from town to town in a wagon train. Ben Travis (Derek) was the straw boss who supervised the workmen, and Tony Gentry (Jaeckel) was the advance man, who scouted likely stopping places for the circus.
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* CoolHorse: "Lippizan" centres around Ben's quest to find a replacement cool horse for the circus's blind equestrian after he accidentally causes the death of her horse. At the the end of the episode, the horse - King - single-handedly fights off a wolf pack.
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* CurtainCamoflague: In "The Smallest Target", Bobby hides behind a rack of hanging dresses in Bonnie's caravan.
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* CurtainCamoflague: CurtainCamouflage: In "The Smallest Target", Bobby hides behind a rack of hanging dresses in Bonnie's caravan.
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: A rare female example in "The Smallest Target". When the T & T Circus stops in a small town, sharpshooter Bonnie Stevens encounters the husband and son she abandoned years before, and she is forced to explain why she did so. She was feeling stifled and slowly going insane on the isolated ranch, so she left the child with the ranch foreman's wife (who had no children and who she knew would dote on the boy) because she new life on the road was no life for a small child.
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* CurtainCamoflague: In "The Smallest Target", Bobby hides behind a rack of hanging dresses in Bonnie's caravan.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: A rare female example in "The Smallest Target". When the T & T Circus stops in a small town, sharpshooter Bonnie Stevens encounters the husband and son she abandoned years before, and she is forced to explain why she did so. She was feeling stifled and slowly going insane on the isolated ranch, so she left the child with the ranch foreman's wife (who had no children and who she knew would dote on the boy) because shenew knew life on the road was no life for a small child.
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: A rare female example in "The Smallest Target". When the T & T Circus stops in a small town, sharpshooter Bonnie Stevens encounters the husband and son she abandoned years before, and she is forced to explain why she did so. She was feeling stifled and slowly going insane on the isolated ranch, so she left the child with the ranch foreman's wife (who had no children and who she knew would dote on the boy) because she
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: A rare female example in "The Smallest Target". When the T & T Circus stops in a small town, sharpshooter Bonnie Stevens encounters the husband and son she abandoned years before, and she is forced to explain why she did so. She was feeling stifled and slowly going insane on the isolated ranch, so she left the child with the ranch foreman's wife (who had no children and who she knew would dote on the boy) because she new life on the road was no life for a small child.
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* BrokenBridge: In "The Smallest Target", the T & T Circus is stranded in town after a bridge is washed out.
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* AdventureTowns: The T & T Circus travelled from town to town in the American southwest; finding a new adventure in every town they stopped in.
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* AFatherToHisMen: In a non-military example, Colonel Thomson took a very paternal interest in all of his performers, and they often came to him to settle problems.
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* WilliamTelling: In "The Smallest Target", Bonnie shoots out the flame on a candle being held by Casey.
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''Frontier Circus'' ran for a single season on CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 6, 1962. The difference between its plot and the plot of most standard Westerns may have led to its short run.
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* AnimalAssassin: In "The Depths of Fear", the lion tamer locks his wife and his rival inside a cage and unleashes a lion upon them.
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* KnifeThrowingAct: In "Karina", a woman, on the run after shooting her vicious husband, stows away in Casey's wagon. Casey agrees to let her join his circus as the target in a knife-throwing act, but local lawmen and her vengeful spouse soon arrive to exact vengeance.
* OffTheWagon: In "The Depths of Fear", Casey hires a washed-up drunk lion tamer as a wagon driver on the understanding that her sobers up. After he is humiliated by the circus's current lion tamer, he finds a bottle in Casey's wagon and gets drunk.
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!!''Frontier Circus'' contains examples of:
* KnifeThrowingAct: In "Karina", a woman, on the run after shooting her vicious husband, stows away in Casey's wagon. Casey agrees to let her join his circus as the target in a knife-throwing act, but local lawmen and her vengeful spouse soon arrive to exact vengeance.
* OffTheWagon: In "The Depths of Fear", Casey hires a washed-up drunk lion tamer as a wagon driver on the understanding that her sobers up. After he is humiliated by the circus's current lion tamer, he finds a bottle in Casey's wagon and gets drunk.
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