Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast is a short-lived American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. Barbary Coast was inspired by a similar 19th-century spy series, The Wild Wild West, and like the earlier program, Barbary Coast mixed the genres of Western and secret agent drama. Barbary Coast featured the adventures of 19th century government agent Jeff Cable , and his pal, conman and gambler Cash Conover . This was Shatner's first attempt at a live-action series since Star Trek .... While on the college lecture circuit in the late 1970s, he said the show "lasted about five minutes." In their battle against various criminals and foreign spies, Cable and Conover operated out of the latter's saloon and casino located on San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. Like Wild Wild West's Artemus Gordon, Cable frequently donned disguises in the course of his investigations.
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