sentences:  The series stars former NFL Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle football player and "Little House on the Prairie" actor Merlin Olsen as an 1870s frontiersman named John Michael Murphy who teams up with prospector Moses Gage (Moses Gunn) to shelter a group of orphans who are being threatened with internment in a workhouse.Murphy disguises himself as a priest and befriends a schoolmarm to help the children find a home.At the end of the first season, John's true identity is revealed to the head of the workhouse, and the orphans seem destined for a life of labor.