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''Bearcats!'' was a short-lived 1971 TV series (13 episodes plus 2-hour pilot film ''Powderkeg''), a [[The Western|Western]] set in the year 1914.
Hank Brackett (Rod Taylor) and Johnny Reach (Dennis Cole) were freelance adventurers who drove around the southwestern U.S. in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130831212609/http://www.carlustblog.com/2008/08/car-lust--stutz.html Stutz Bearcat] sports car instead of riding horses. They took on problems that no one else could solve, and their fee was a blank
The 20th-century setting allowed the writers to add modern elements such as the aforementioned Bearcat, oil companies, [[Fatherland|Imperial German]] spies and [[World War I]], [[South of the Border|Mexican]] revolutionaries, and [[More Dakka|belt-fed machine guns]] to the usual [[The Wild West|Wild West]] milieu. It ended up as something of an [[Anachronism Stew]] anyway because they often [[Did Not Do the Research]]
Despite all that, the show was quite fun to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkqtbWnxcvg watch].
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