Empire is an television series set at New Mexico on a 1960s ranch, starring Terry Moore Richard Egan, and Ryan O'Neal. It ran from September 25, 1962. At the second season, from September 24 to December 3 1, 1963, it had been renamed Redigo Jim Redigo, after Egan's title character, the director of this fictitious Garrett ranch at Empire, also paid down to a half-hour.