Raw-boned blonde leading man Doug McClure came to films in 1957, but it was television that made him a star. He played secondary roles on such MCA series as [[Feature~V105342~The Overland Trail~overlandtrails]] (1960) and Checkmate (1961-62) before striking paydirt as Trampas on the long-running (1962-71) western series The Virginian. During his first flush of stardom, McClure played leads in two Universal remakes, [[Feature~V84588~Beau Geste~beaugeste]] (1966) and [[Feature~V97817~The King's Pirate~thekingspirate]] (the 1967 remake of [[Performer~P90030~Errol Flynn~errolflynn]]'s [[Feature~V1204~Against All Flags~againstallflags]]). He also dashed through a trio of British-filmed Edgar Rice Burroughs derivations, [[Feature~V28162~The Land That Time Forgot~thelandthattimeforgot]] (1974), [[Feature~V3199~At the Earth's Core~attheearthscore]] (1976) and [[Feature~V37662~The People That Time Forgot~thepeoplethattimeforgot]] (1977). He perpetuated his athletic, devil-may-care image into his brief 1975 TVer, Search (1975). In the late 1980s, Doug McClure reemerged as an agreeable comic actor, playing an Eastwoodish movie-star-cum-small-town-mayor in the syndicated sitcom [[Feature~V105214~Out of This World~outofthisworld]] (1987-88). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi