Editing Brian Keith (section)

===''The Brian Keith Show'', ''The Zoo Gang'', ''Archer''===
Keith went on to star as [[pediatrician]] Dr. Sean Jamison in the NBC sitcom ''[[The Brian Keith Show]]'' (entitled ''The Little People'' during its first season). The series was cancelled in 1974 after two seasons. "The show ended because it was bad, not because of Hawaii," said Keith.<ref name="archer"/>

Keith also starred in the role of Steven "The Fox" Halliday in the six-part television [[miniseries]], ''[[The Zoo Gang]]'' (1974), about a group of former underground [[French Resistance]] fighters from World War II. The show also starred [[Sir John Mills]], [[Lilli Palmer]], and [[Barry Morse]], and featured a theme by [[Paul McCartney]].<ref name="archer"/> Keith was third billed in ''[[The Yakuza (film)|The Yakuza]]'' (1974) starring [[Robert Mitchum]], and in ''[[The Wind and the Lion]]'' (1975) starring [[Sean Connery]], Keith played [[President Theodore Roosevelt]] for writer-director [[John Milius]]. He starred in the TV series ''[[Archer (1975 TV series)|Archer]]'' (1975) as [[Lew Archer]], replacing [[Peter Graves]] who'd starred in the pilot, but it was cancelled after six episodes and has never been rerun in the United States ([[Jerry Goldsmith]]'s score for the first episode of the series was released in 2018 by Lalaland Records).<ref name="archer"/> Keith did some Westerns, ''[[The Quest (1976 TV series)|The Quest]]'' (1976) pilot, and ''[[Joe Panther]]'' (1976), and the TV movie ''[[The Loneliest Runner]]'' (1976). He had a supporting role in ''[[Nickelodeon (film)|Nickelodeon]]'' (1976) and did the TV movies ''[[In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan]]'' (1977) and ''[[The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer]]'' (1977). He was in ''[[How the West Was Won (TV series)|How the West Was Won]]'' (1978), ''[[Hooper (film)|Hooper]]'' (1978) with [[Burt Reynolds]], ''[[Centennial (TV series)|Centennial]]'' (1979), and ''[[The Chisholms]]'' (1979). In 1992, he starred in the unsold, ABC half-hour pilot ''The Streets of Beverly Hills''.

Keith spoke fluent Russian, which led to his casting as a Russian in two roles: as a Soviet scientist in the film ''[[Meteor (film)|Meteor]]'' (1979) with [[Natalie Wood]] (who also spoke fluent Russian and played his translator), and as the Soviet premier in the NBC miniseries ''[[World War III (miniseries)|World War III]]'' (1982)  with [[Rock Hudson]]. He replaced [[Barnard Hughes]] on Broadway in ''[[Da (play)|Da]]'' and was on ''[[The Seekers (TV series)|The Seekers]]'' (1979), ''[[Power (1980 TV series)|Power]]'' (1980), ''[[The Silent Lovers]]'' (1980), ''[[The Mountain Men]]'' (1980) with [[Charlton Heston]], and ''[[Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen]]'' (1981). Of the latter he joked, "I only did the picture because it had a long title, and I seem to specialize in those."<ref name="ind"/> He had support roles in ''[[Sharky's Machine]]'' (1981) with Burt Reynolds and ''[[Cry for the Strangers]]'' (1982).