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The Tycoon is a 32-episode American sitcom television series broadcast by ABC. It starred Walter Brennan as the fictitious businessman Walter Andrews, similar to his birth name of Walter Andrew Brennan. As chairman of the board of the Thunder Corporation that he founded but no longer actively runs, Brennan plays an eccentric and cantankerous millionaire with a common touch who helps promising persons in need. The series aired with new episodes at 9 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday from September 15, 1964, until April 27, 1965. It continued in reruns until September 7, 1965. The program did not develop sufficient audience, presumably because viewers may have preferred the versatile Brennan as the bucolic Grandpa Amos McCoy in his 1957-1963 ABC and CBS sitcom The Real McCoys. Oddly, The Tycoon has the same name as an episode of The Real McCoys also called "The Tycoon," which aired four years earlier on August 23, 1960.
Original Release
09/15/1964 on ABC
US Release
09/15/1964
Cast
Name | Character |
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Walter Brennan | Walter Andrews |
Van Williams | Pat Burns |
Jerome Cowan | Herbert Wilson / Wilson |
Janet Lake | Betty Franklin |
Grace Albertson | Louise Wilson |
Tyler McVey | Baron |
George Lindsey | Tom Keane |
Ted Bessell | McCracken / George |
Monty Margetts | Una |
J. Pat O'Malley | Harry Horn |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Horatio Alger Again | Tuesday, 15 September 1964 |
2 | The Shotgun Meyer | Tuesday, 22 September 1964 |
3 | Walter Gets Fired | Tuesday, 29 September 1964 |
4 | The Great Race | Tuesday, 06 October 1964 |
5 | The Patient | Tuesday, 13 October 1964 |
6 | The Top Ten | Tuesday, 20 October 1964 |
7 | Inside Job | Tuesday, 27 October 1964 |
8 | Mr. Fix It | Tuesday, 10 November 1964 |
9 | East Meets West | Tuesday, 17 November 1964 |
10 | Boy Genius | Tuesday, 24 November 1964 |
11 | Toys in the Pentagon | Tuesday, 01 December 1964 |
12 | Talent Scout | Tuesday, 08 December 1964 |
13 | Harvey Brinkerhoff, Who Needs You? | Tuesday, 15 December 1964 |
14 | Baby Tycoon | Tuesday, 22 December 1964 |
15 | No Place Like Home | Tuesday, 29 December 1964 |
16 | Honorable Doctor Andrews | Tuesday, 05 January 1965 |
17 | Thunder Bowl | Tuesday, 12 January 1965 |
18 | Muscles Don't Retire | Tuesday, 19 January 1965 |
19 | Romance, Incorporated | Tuesday, 26 January 1965 |
20 | South of the Border | Tuesday, 02 February 1965 |
21 | Tom's in Transistorland | Tuesday, 09 February 1965 |
22 | Pat's Retirement | Tuesday, 16 February 1965 |
23 | A Dog's Life | Tuesday, 23 February 1965 |
24 | Johnny on the Spot | Tuesday, 02 March 1965 |
25 | Cloak and Dagger | Tuesday, 09 March 1965 |
26 | Walter on a Pedestal | Tuesday, 16 March 1965 |
27 | Dragster Andrews | Tuesday, 23 March 1965 |
28 | It's All Relative | Tuesday, 30 March 1965 |
29 | Kitchen Caper | Tuesday, 06 April 1965 |
30 | Mr. Wilson in Retirement Land | Tuesday, 13 April 1965 |
31 | A Slight Case of Merger | Tuesday, 20 April 1965 |
32 | Honest Man | Tuesday, 27 April 1965 |
Directors
Leslie Goodwins, Alvin Ganzer, Christian Nyby
Writers
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Walter Brennan | Walter Andrews |
Van Williams | Pat Burns |
Jerome Cowan | Herbert Wilson / Wilson |
Janet Lake | Betty Franklin |
Grace Albertson | Louise Wilson |
Tyler McVey | Baron |
George Lindsey | Tom Keane |
Ted Bessell | McCracken / George |
Monty Margetts | Una |
J. Pat O'Malley | Harry Horn |
Morgan Brittany | Nellie Adams |
Pat Buttram | Brian |
Percy Helton | Himmelman |
Douglas Kennedy | Foster |
Ted Eccles | Peter Pfeiffer |
Jay Novello | Nick Santino |
Don Keefer | Miller |
Dave Willock | Dave Collins |
Andy Clyde | Skippy Draper |
Byron Foulger | Swenson |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Danny Thomas | Executive Producer |
Charles Isaacs | Producer |
Andy Brennan | Producer |