This show doesnt date, doesnt get old and is refreshingly well acted. Stacy, Maunder, Dugan and Bauer have an onscreen dynamic that is rare and obvious. The constraints of the times made for dificult script writing, and back stories under utilized but it was streets ahead of it's time. Until Starsky and Hutch and Alias smith and Jones, there had never been obvious bonding on screen before. Method acting at it's best. They were believable in their rolls and even after 50 years it's still watchable, enjoyable and a master class for acting. This alone put it streets ahead of any other western of it's time. Timing was its death knell. At the end of the western series trend it was up against some big shows, all of which had run for years. Even so, watching an episode of lancer and one of any other long run western and it's better, I go, and it's the acting and dynamic that did that.
