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The Tycoon

★ 6.7 31 votes 1964–1965 1 season · 32 episodes Ended ABC
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Starring
Walter BrennanVan WilliamsJerome CowanJanet LakeMonty MargettsPat McNulty
Written by
Charles Isaacs
Starring
Walter BrennanVan WilliamsJerome CowanJanet LakeMonty MargettsPat McNulty
Written by
Charles Isaacs

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About

The Tycoon is a 32-episode American situation comedy 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 ther same name as an episode of The Real McCoys also called "The Tycoon," which aired four years earlier on August 23, 1960. After The Tycoon floundered, Brennan returned to ABC two years later in a more homespun role, a western The Guns of Will Sonnett with costar Dack Rambo. Jerome Cowan and Van Williams costarred with Brennan in The Tycoon. Cowan played Herbert Wilson, a by-the-book "bean counter" who decried Brennan’s questionable expenditure of company resources. Williams starred as young executive Pat Burns. George Lindsey, later with The Andy Griffith Show, appeared in a few episodes of The Tycoon as Tom Keane. Van Williams had earlier appeared as Ken Madison in two ABC detective series Bourbon Street Beat with Richard Long and Andrew Duggan and in Surfside 6 with Troy Donahue and Lee Patterson. Later, Williams starred on ABC's The Green Hornet.

All Seasons

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Season 1
—03216h
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Horatio Alger Again—
—30 min
▶2The Shotgun Meyer—
—30 min
▶3Walter Gets Fired—
—30 min
▶4The Great Race—
—30 min
▶5The Patient—
—30 min
▶6The Top Ten—
—30 min
▶7Inside Job—
—30 min
▶8Mr. Fix It—
—30 min
▶9East Meets West—
—30 min
▶10Boy Genius—
—30 min
▶11Toys in the Pentagon—
—30 min
▶12Talent Scout—
—30 min
▶13Harvey Brinkerhoff, Who Needs You?—
—30 min
▶14Baby Tycoon—
—30 min
▶15No Place Like Home—
—30 min
▶16Honorable Doctor Andrews—
—30 min
▶17Thunder Bowl—
—30 min
▶18Muscles Don't Retire—
—30 min
▶19Romance, Incorporated—
—30 min
▶20South of the Border—
—30 min
▶21Tom's in Transistorland—
—30 min
▶22Pat's Retirement—
—30 min
▶23A Dog's Life—
—30 min
▶24Johnny on the Spot—
—30 min
▶25Cloak and Dagger—
—30 min
▶26Walter on a Pedestal—
—30 min
▶27Dragster Andrews—
—30 min
▶28It's All Relative—
—30 min
▶29Kitchen Caper—
—30 min
▶30Mr. Wilson in Retirement Land—
—30 min
▶31A Slight Case of Merger—
—30 min
▶32Honest Man—
—30 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Walter Brennan Walter Andrews
Van Williams Pat Burns
Jerome Cowan Herbert Wilson, Wilson
Janet Lake Betty, Betty Franklin
Monty Margetts Una
Pat McNulty Martha
Tyler McVey Baron, Mr. Barton
Grace Albertson Louise Wilson
Robert Riordan Dunbar
Tommy Ivo Phillips, Tommy Ivo

Crew

Charles Isaacs

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