Western TV shows

[jimmyj]

Discussing Palladin in another thread got me thinking about all the western shows we've watched.

Here are ones I can recall watching, how about you? What ones were your fav's?

Gunsmoke (a great show)
The Big Valley (man was the daughter cute!)
Rifleman (man was he a big guy)
The Virginian (Ok, not the best of them)
The Westerner (good but not as popular)
Bonanza (could Adam fall in love and lose the girl any more frequently)
The Black Saddle (again, less well known)
Judge Roy Bean (didn't he become Uncle Joe in Hooterville?)
Have Gun Will Travel (loved that show except for the odd stupid episode)
The Lone Ranger (kinda campy but couldn't take my eyes off it)
The Last of the Mohicans (my parents called me Hawkeye)



I did a search to see what I'd missed or forgotten and found this incredible list of old westerns


26 Men
Adventures of Jim Bowie
Adventures of Kit Carson
Alaskans
Annie Oakley
Bat Masterson
Big Valley
Black Saddle
Bonanza
Boots and Saddles
Branded
Brave Eagle
Broken Arrow
Bronco
Buckskin
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Californians
Casey Jones
Cheyenne
Cimarron City
Cimarron Strip
Cisco Kid
Davy Crockett
Flicka
Fury
Gray Ghost
Gunsmoke
Have Gun Will Travel
High Chaparral
Jim Bowie
Kit Carson
Laramie
Lawman
Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Lone Ranger
Maverick
Men From Shiloh
My Friend Flicka
Range Rider
Rawhide
Rebel
Rifleman
Rin Tin Tin
Roy Rogers
Sky King
Sugarfoot
Tales of Wells Fargo
Trackdown
Virginian
Wagon Train
Wantedead or Alive
Wells Fargo
Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Wild West
Wyatt Earp
Yancy Derringer
Zorro

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Introduction and
TV Westerns 1949-1954
Hopalong Cassidy
Gene Autry
Death Valley Days
Stories of the Century

TV Westerns 1955 - 1956
Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
Tales of the Texas Rangers
Steve Donovan, Western Marshal
Sheriff of Cochise
Judge Roy Bean

TV Westerns 1957
Colt 45
Tombstone Territory
Restless Gun
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Man Without a Gun

Westerns 1958
Jefferson Drum
Northwest Passage
Frontier Doctor
Texan
Mackenzies Raiders
Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
Texas John Slaughter
Rough Riders
Union Pacific

TV Westerns 1959
Riverboat
Hotel de Paree
Deputy
Law of the Plainsman
Swamp Fox
Man From Blackhawk
Wichita Town
Johnny Ringo

TV Westerns 1960 - 1964
Outlaws
Tall Man
Tate
Overland Trail
Stagecoach West
Klondike
Gunslinger
Whispering Smith
Whiplash
Frontier Circus
Stoney Burke
Temple Houston
Dakotas

TV Westerns 1965 - 1970
Man Called Shenandoah
Laredo
Loner
Iron Horse
Road West
Guns of Will Sonnett
Cowboy in Africa
Hondo
Dundee and the Culhane
Custer
Lancer
Here Come the Brides

 

[dave1949]

Wow Jimmy, that looks like a pretty comprehensive list. I like to watch old westerns too, they show some on TVLand channel - Gunsmoke and Bonanza mostly.

I have a question, do any of you ever see Gunsmoke episodes from when Dennis Hopper played Chester? I never see those older shows and wonder if it will change now that Dennis Hopper has died.
Dave.

 

[jimmyj]

Never saw him, at least not that I recall. It's amazing how the same actors got from show to show. I got the list just off Google.

 

[Bird]

Wow Jimmy, that looks like a pretty comprehensive list. I like to watch old westerns too, they show some on TVLand channel - Gunsmoke and Bonanza mostly.

I have a question, do any of you ever see Gunsmoke episodes from when Dennis Hopper played Chester? I never see those older shows and wonder if it will change now that Dennis Hopper has died.
Dave.

I don't recall ever knowing of Dennis Hopper playing Chester at all, but I've seen lots of episodes in which Dennis Weaver played Chester.

 

[dave1949]

I don't recall ever knowing of Dennis Hopper playing Chester at all, but I've seen lots of episodes in which Dennis Weaver played Chester.

Whoops. I did mean Dennis Weaver. However, Dennis Hopper did appear in Gunsmoke - which I never knew :laughing:
Did the late Dennis Hopper ever appear in Gunsmoke? - Yahoo! Answers

Dave.

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

O.K. You might have mentioned this show but I don't recall the name. Lead actor went on to become a star if I remember correctly. Carried a sawed off shotgun for a pistol and I think he was a bounty hunter..."Bounty Hunter" the name of the show? early to mid-sixties.

 

[jimmyj]

That was good old Steve McQueen in Wanted dead or alive. It was a sawed off rifle though I recall. LOL, I'd forgotten that one. Another classic!

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

Good old Steve...thanks...I could not for the life of me remember the name...

 

[jimmyj]

This was his tool of the trade.

 

[mjarrels]

Spent all of last week watching reruns of Hawaii Five O. Did we really dress like that in the mid sixties, drive those 6 thousand pound cars with no seatbelts or head rest. Cops were the fuzz, everything was grovey?

mark

 

[Mousefield]

I've watched a lot of the movies/series on your list. Haven't seen Gray Ghost since I was a kid, wish they would show that one again. For some reason it sticks in my mind.

 

[Bird]

That was good old Steve McQueen in Wanted dead or alive. It was a sawed off rifle though I recall. LOL, I'd forgotten that one. Another classic!

Yep, sawed off rifle. Then in El Dorado, John Wayne's sidekick, Jame Caan, used a sawed off shotgun that looked very similar.:laughing:

 

[jinman]

As a kid, I loved the Bat Masterson series so much that all I wanted for Christmas was a Bat Masterson Walking Cane. The one I wanted had a place you could put a cap inside the head of the cane and if you tapped it on the ground, the cap would go, "POP!" What fun!

 

[/pine]

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see 'Red Ryder'....

was a comic strip then on radio and TV and movies...

later on his kid side kick "little beaver" was played by Robert Blake (Baretta/ wife killer)

 

[k0ua]

This was his tool of the trade.
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It called a "Mare's Leg"
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In 2008, Legacy Sports International introduced a Mare's Leg. It is made by Chiappa in Italy, imported for Legacy, and sold under the brand name Puma. This Puma 92 is named the Bounty Hunter. It is available in several calibers including; .44 magnum, .45 Colt, and .44-40. With a 12 inch barrel, no shoulder stock, and a receiver that has never been built into a rifle, it is considered a pistol by the ATF

James K0UA

 

[jinman]

Well, many of the early TV series were based on existing radio series that we used to listen to. We never missed an episode of Dragnet or Suspense. Have Gun Will Travel was also one of our radio favorites. Here is a link to a list of old time radio programs. I'd bet some of the older members here see a lot of names we remember from the days before television was common. I know we didn't get a TV in our home until 1956.

Old Time Radio

 

[LMTC]

Have Gun Will Travel was certainly one of my favs, and still wins for the "cool" factor. The name "Paladin", the horsehead logo, black outfit, etc. have always had a very high cool factor for me. Wanted Dead or Alive & Maverick may be my top 3, but I loved all the Warner Bros westerns that came in the early 60s....Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco Lane, Lawman (John Russell). Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and many others will always be classics. Which leads to the question...was there ever a really BAD western series? If so, I don't seem to recall it.

Oh yeah...The Rifleman was a favorite of mine too.

 

[milkman]

I remember listening to Gunsmoke on the radio, anyone remember why Chester had a limp. Also, there was one western that had a deputy called Shotgun Gibbs, anyone recall the name of the show?

 

[tglass]

Good list, did you find any sites you could free and legally download any of them without a signup requirement and e-mail address so you don't get any of their junk mail?

 

[LMTC]

I remember listening to Gunsmoke on the radio, anyone remember why Chester had a limp. Also, there was one western that had a deputy called Shotgun Gibbs, anyone recall the name of the show?

Was Mr. Gibbs with Hugh O'Brien? That was another good'un.