This section needs additional citations for verification. The show addressed many social issues - racism, ethnic discrimination, treatment of the handicapped and mentally impaired, business ethics, and ecology. Upon discovering that his benefactor is actually a con artist, his faith is shaken so deeply that the stammer returns. In one episode, he is temporarily able to manage his stammer following coaching by a traveler who has come to Seattle. Jeremy took a prominent role, not only as the boyfriend of Candy Pruitt ( Bridget Hanley), the beautiful, unofficial leader of the brides, but also as a young man with a stammer. One running theme is the importance of family, as the Bolt brothers show through the closeness of their relationships, that by sticking together, democratically taking family votes, they can overcome the surprising obstacles life presents.īobby Sherman and David Soul were propelled to pop stardom as Jason's brothers, Jeremy and Joshua. Stempel became more friendly in the second and final season, which focused more on the development of individual characters and the conflicts associated with newcomers and with people just passing through. Much of the dramatic and comedic tension in the first season revolved around Stempel's efforts to sabotage the deal and take over the Bolts' holdings. The ship's captain, Clancy ( Henry Beckman), develops a relationship with Lottie and becomes a regular character in the series. Local saloon owner Lottie ( Joan Blondell) takes the women under her wing and becomes a mother figure to them, while Bolt desperately works to keep the women from leaving at the next high tide.Įventually, the women decide to give Seattle and the loggers a chance. The Bolts travel to New Bedford, Massachusetts, recruit the women, then charter a mule-ship to take them back to Seattle. Sawmill owner Aaron Stempel ( Mark Lenard) puts up much of the expense money as a wager that Bolt will not succeed in bringing 100 suitable women the Bolt brothers bet their mountain, Bridal Veil Mountain, home to their logging company.
HERE COMES THE BRIDE FULL
He promises to find marriageable ladies willing to come to the frontier town (population 152) and stay for a full year. In the pilot episode, smooth-talking, charismatic logging company boss Jason Bolt ( Robert Brown) is faced with a shutdown of his operation as lonely lumberjacks are ready to leave Seattle due to the lack of female companionship.
HERE COMES THE BRIDE MOVIE
The 1951 movie Westward the Women follows a similar theme.Ĭandy's brother and sister arrive in Seattle Being one of the first shows targeted at young women, most of the humor was at the expense of the men, but not particularly bitingly so. Plots were usually a mix of drama and humor. Stories highlighted the importance of cooperation, inter-racial harmony, and peaceful resolution of conflict. This was in keeping with the restrictions on television violence at the time.
HERE COMES THE BRIDE SERIES
The producers said the show was inspired by the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in an interview with LA Times TV critic Cecil Smith.Īs a television western, set shortly after the end of the Civil War, the series rarely featured any form of gunplay, and violence was generally limited to comical fistfights. The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls project, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle in the 1860s by importing marriageable women from the east coast cities of the United States, where the ravages of the American Civil War left those towns short of men.
Here Come the Brides is an American comedy Western series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from Septemto April 3, 1970.
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