The High Chaparral
A Man to Match the Land
TV Flash files “A Man to Match the Land” as a desk essential hour — The High Chaparral (1967–1971) on NBC, season 4, episode 18, aired 1971-03-12, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E18: listed hour 98 of 98 in the The High Chaparral guide, last listed hour of season 4. It aired 1971-03-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Hostage” (S04E17). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “A Man to Match the Land”. A Man to Match the Land closes four NBC seasons of territory empire — catalog tail of a ranch that used the border as weather.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Man to Match the Land sit in the The High Chaparral guide?
S04E18 is listed hour 98 of 98 — last listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 18.
When did The High Chaparral S04E18 air?
A Man to Match the Land aired 1971-03-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
The Cannon-Montoya ranch household — Erickson, Cristal, Darrow, Mitchell — is the alliance contract. Adult western, so give the hour room; this is not a half-hour oat gag.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The High Chaparral is late-western family empire in Arizona Territory: Leif Erickson's Big John Cannon, a bilingual ranch household, and border tensions the genre usually flattened. Tucson-area shooting gave Mexican-American characters more room than most horse operas. Adult western TV after the boom crested — marriage alliances, ranch politics, landscape that is not a backlot.
So about the late western: the boom had crested and the ranch still wanted adult scale. The High Chaparral is family empire in Arizona Territory — Leif Erickson's Big John Cannon, a bilingual ranch household, and border tensions the genre usually flattened. David Dortort's NBC series (1967–1971; four seasons, 98 episodes) — Bonanza's creator going dustier — shot with Tucson-area grit. Cameron Mitchell's Buck, Henry Darrow's Manolito Montoya, and Linda Cristal's Victoria Cannon give Mexican-American characters…
Filed against
- Leif Erickson as John Cannon
Leif Erickson's John Cannon held The High Chaparral as late-western family empire in Arizona Territory — a bilingual ranch household, border tensions the genre usually flattened, Tucson-area shooting that gave Mexican-American characters…
- Cameron Mitchell as Buck Cannon
Cameron Mitchell played Buck Cannon on The High Chaparral — late-western family empire in Arizona Territory, Leif Erickson's Big John, a bilingual ranch household, border tensions the genre usually flattened. Tucson-area shooting gave…
- Henry Darrow as Manolito Montoya
Henry Darrow's Manolito Montoya gave The High Chaparral a bilingual pulse — late-western family empire in Arizona Territory, Leif Erickson's Big John Cannon, border tensions the genre usually flattened, Tucson-area shooting. Adult horse…
- Linda Cristal as Victoria Cannon
Linda Cristal held the ranch house as Victoria Cannon on The High Chaparral — bilingual household power in Arizona Territory, a late-western family empire the genre usually flattened at the border. Tucson-area dust, adult stakes. TV Flash…