sentences:  He returned to the United States and made guest appearances in several western television series such as "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater", "Death Valley Days", "Have Gun – Will Travel", "Wagon Train", "The Big Valley", "The Virginian", "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Rango", "Custer", "Branded", "The Rough Riders", "Cimarron City" and "Tombstone Territory".In 1961, he landed the leading role on the television series "Ripcord" as the handsome, headstrong, youthful, colorful, audacious, intrepid and brave skydiver Theodore (Ted) McKeever.His co-star was Ken Curtis, later as Festus Haggin on "Gunsmoke", as his inseparable, level-headed older mentor and best buddy James "Jim" Buckley.