The Rounders was a 17-episode
western-style
situation comedy about two
cowboys on the fictitious J.L.
Ranch in
Texas. It starred
Ron Hayes as Ben Jones and
Patrick Wayne, a son of
John Wayne, as Howdy Lewis. The
M-G-M television series aired on
ABC from September 6, 1966, to January 3, 1967. The program was loosely based on a 1965
film of the same name,
The Rounders, starring
Glenn Ford and
Henry Fonda, set near
Sedona,
Arizona, rather than Texas.