Here Come the Brides was a television series aired on the ABC television network from September 25 1968 to April 3 1970. It was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s, where the ravages of the American Civil War left towns there short of men.

As a television western, it was a bit of an oddity in that it rarely featured any form of gunplay, and violence was generally limited to comical fistfights. This was in keeping with the progressive attitudes that were starting to prevail in popular culture in the late 1960s. Stories highlighted the importance of cooperation, racial harmony, and peaceful resolution of conflict. Plots were usually a mix of drama and humor. Being one of the first shows targeted at young women, most of the humor was at the expense of the men, but not particularly bitingly so.

The show was extremely popular when it first aired. However, for its second season, the family-geared series was moved from the 7:30 Wednesday night "Family Hour" to the tougher, more adult-oriented time slot of 9:00 Friday night in September 1969. The ratings quickly slid out of the top 40 and production ceased in the spring of 1970.

In 1974, the sets for the series were destroyed by a major forest fire in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

To avoid losing their logging crew, the Bolt brothers bring 100 prospective brides from Massachusetts to Seattle, using money borrowed from sawmill owner Stempel. Should one of the girls decide to go home, or should they fail to meet Stempel's timber quotas, they will still lose their mountain to him. Written by Ed Stephan

Brothers Jason, Joshua and Jeremy Bolt ran a logging camp in Seattle in 1870. Labor problems arose when their male workers, frustrated at the lack of women in the Seattle area, threatened to leave. With the aid of their rival Aaron Stempel, the Bolts recruit 100 women, or "brides", to move to Seattle from the East. The hitch was that if any of the brides returned to the East within one year, Stempel would become the rightful owner of the Bolts' mill. Needless to say, Stempel did everything possible to make life miserable for the women of Seattle. Written by Marty McKee