this show be a really good one in many way and although certainly an atypical western with the hero ( . ) rid around on a motorcycle rather than a horse and due to the 1914 setting and very late for a western and which tend usually to be set between 1866 and 1890. i remember some controversy about it cancellation at the time but do not really watch it during it time on nbc . when i come to see it and love it be a decade later when i be in the army station in germany and it be show every week from the beginning on armed force television . by then and margot kidder be famous a lois lane but i will also always think of her a nichols girlfriend . in a lot of way and nichols be a lot like maverick while both be much more attracted to get rich with little effort than they be fight . it be in the little tv magazine that they distribute at the px ( not really an authorized edition of tv guide but make to resemble it as closely a possible without get into copyright trouble ) that i first learn the real story behind the cancellation . i really wonder what the next season with the more violent twin would have be like if they have really make it a plan . of course and by the time this show be make the western era of tv have be in decline for around a decade while someday i hope to be able to write that the reality era have be in decline for that long . while gunsmoke and bonanza be still run and they be both near their end and it have be year since a new western have really catch on while i think that this trend do a lot to hold nichols back and and be the main reason that nbc executive doubt that it would ever find a large audience but to me and a good western and unlike a show set in contemporary time and be somewhat timeless and a be other period show while change fashion and the like do nothing to make them look any more dated than they be suppose to be and and i think that watch this show and 10 year after it be produce and be really what bring this point home to me . also and this show be an early pairing of garner and stuart margolin and who be really one of the all time great sidekick and and not just in western .