You favorite old-time TV Western?

[tallyho8]

Death Valley Days, Wagon Train and Gunsmoke were my favorites. It has been many years since I watched them and now their reruns are coming on a local over the air channel along with many other old westerns. Oh, and of course the series about my great, great, great, great grandfather, Davy Crockett.

Death Valley Days was one of the most interesting programs because it had different actors in each program so you never knew when one was going to get killed. Unlike series like Gunsmoke when you knew in advance that Marshall Dillion was going to win the gunfight.

Death Valley Days probably had more actors in the series than any other series on TV with many hundreds of both well known and little known actors. If you want to see a list of all the people who acted in that series go to Death Valley Days (TV Series 1952–197) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb

The one good part about getting old is that my memory is failing and i can't remember any of these shows so when I watch them it is like watching them for the first time.

 

[cqaigy2]

Death Valley Days is why one of my bucket list, was......Death Valley.

 

[Turbys_1700]

Me TV has all the old Westerns. My wife and I watch Wagon Train in the afternoons. I've become reacquainted with my child hood favorite the Rifleman. Also watch Have Gun Will Travel, Trackdown, etc...Watched the Lone Ranger when available and like The Wild Wild West.

I'm amazed at a lot of the common actors used in all those old westerns and then later dramas like Perry Mason, comedies like Andy Griffith, etc...

 

[DrRod]

Now that you mentioned Twilight Zone -- there was an evening event at Syracuse University around 1972 where Rod Serling was schedule to speak [I think he was teaching at Cornel at the time]. There was such large turnout that we couldn't get in the auditorium. So some organizers came out and said that we should stick around and after the lecture he would come out ad talk with us. And so after about 45 minutes, he came out front and we all sat down on the steps and just chatted about the Twilight Zone, what he liked and didn't like about it, science fiction in general, and lots of other stuff. It was so one-on-one in a sense I still hold it as a highlight of my college years. So much better than a formal presentation and a generous gesture by a cult figure of the day.

 

[Jstpssng]

How about a little "McCloud" for variety? Maybe not a western in the true sense but it sure was different.

 

[/pine]

How about a little "McCloud" for variety? Maybe not a western in the true sense but it sure was different.

Methinks 'McCloud' was created to take advantage of the success of the Clint Eastwood picture 'Cougan's Bluff' directed by the prolific Don Siegel.

 

[PILOON]

LOL as I read all the contributions I realized we were all that 'over the hill age' group, LOL.
OK. I,m with you the old time stuff is still the best, no mimes or cartoons, just real characters that we can identify with,

 

[Jstpssng]

And like cheese or a fine wine, those old memories just improve with age.

 

[flyerdan]

McCloud was one of those shows that rotated with a couple others so that you basically got three different shows in a season. Same time period as Cade's County; I remember my mom always commented on how filthy the windshield was on his Jeep in the opening sequence.
A modern omission on the list would be Longmire, which is definitely a western in spirit.

 

[/pine]

Anyone remember 'The Westerner' with Brian Keith ?
Was produced by Sam Peckinpah...
...One particular episode supposedly was the inspiration for the movie 'Will Penny'