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Here Come the Brides
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Name: | Here Come the Brides |
Abbreviation(s): | HCTB |
Creator: | Screen Gems |
Date(s): | September 1968 – April 1970 |
Medium: | Television series |
Country of Origin: | USA |
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Here Come the Brides is a Western television series that aired on ABC from 1968 to 1970.
Crossovers
Here Come the Brides is sometimes crossed-over with other television series of the era, for example Alias Smith and Jones[1] (which was also a Western on ABC), Starsky & Hutch,[2] and—most commonly—Star Trek.
Star Trek/HCTB fiction are usually same-actor crossovers: the HCTB character Aaron Stempel (also spelled Aaron Stemple) is played by Mark Lenard, who also portrayed Sarek in Star Trek: TOS and TNG. Several other actors also appear on both shows. Ishmael is a 1985 Star Trek pro book that is a crossover with HCTB (published without permission from the HCTB owners) and alludes to the Stemple-Sarek connection. An earlier example of a crossover featuring these characters is "Echoes Through Time" by Eileen Roy, published in Paladin #1 (1980).
Here Come the Brides was also commonly discussed in Star Trek-oriented fandom spaces. For example, HCTB content was featured in the Star Trek newsletter zine Despatch.
Fanzines

Here Come the Brides fanzines:
- Dreams to Last the Years, a 2004 anthology
Multimedia zines featuring HCTB content:
- Adventure... Plus (1985)
- Ghost Riders, Issues #1, 3, & 10 (1984-1992)
- Remote Control, Issues #1, 4, & 21 (1991-2004)
- Trails West, Issue #1 (1999)
- House Blend, Issue #2 (2004)
Online Fanworks
- Here Come The Brides Fan-Fiction Home Page
- hctb, a Yahoo! Group
- Here Come the Brides at AO3
- Here Come the Brides at FanFiction.Net
References
- ^ For example, "Here Comes the Outlaws" by Paula Smus from Just You, Me & the Governor #5, published in the early 1990s.
- ^ For example, "Blood Brothers" by Mary Kleinsmith from Cold Pizza and Butterfly Bones, published in 1997.