carols_stuff | Oct. 13th, 2008

Here Come the Brides

Here Come the Brides is a television series that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968 to April 3, 1970. It was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s, where the ravages of the American Civil War left towns there short of men. As a television western, it was a bit of an oddity in that it rarely featured any form of gunplay, and violence was generally limited to comical fistfights.

Main characters
Jason Bolt (Robert Brown)
Jeremy Bolt (Bobby Sherman)
Joshua Bolt (David Soul)
Aaron Stempel (Mark Lenard)
Candy Pruitt (Bridget Hanley)
Lottie Hatfield (Joan Blondell)
Biddie Cloom (Susan Tolsky), Candy's best friend
Captain Roland Frances Clancey (Henry Beckman)
Recurring characters
Ben (Hoke Howell)
Corky (Robert Biheller)
Big Swede (Bo Svenson)
Franny (Carole Shelyne)
Ann (Cynthia Hull)
Christopher Pruitt (Eric Chase, 1969-1970), Candy Pruitt's younger brother
Molly Pruitt (Patti Cohoon, 1969-1970), Candy's younger sister

The Bolt Brothers bring 100 prospective brides to Seattle in order to avoid losing their logging crew.