You favorite old-time TV Western?

[2LaneCruzer]

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.

I too was a fan of Longmire. As for his deputy, did he ever...? I guess we'll never know. :laughing:

 

[Diggin It]

McCloud was one of those shows that rotated with a couple others so that you basically got three different shows in a season.

McMillan and Wife, Banacek and Colombo. Three of the four were really good and one was just a stumblebum buffoon.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Bonanza had those Chevy commercials. I remember the one where they had stripped a car to lift it up on top of a butte.

Not TV but my favorite western movie is still How the West Was Won. Just about every well known actor was in it as I recall?

 

[dragoneggs]

McMillan and Wife, Banacek and Colombo. Three of the four were really good and one was just a stumblebum buffoon.

Well if you are going with that group, then don't forget Cannon!

 

[Diggin It]

Well if you are going with that group, then don't forget Cannon!

That wasn't one of the four shows in rotation on the NBC Mystery Movie of the Week ( The NBC Mystery Movie - Wikipedia ).

Though that says Hec Ramsey was one of the original four, which being a western, falls into this thread. Banacek was part of another rotation series.

 

[Jstpssng]

We've gone from favorite westerns to movie trivia... a rather interesting turn of the dice.

 

[dmccarty]

Bars were also known as cathouses and bar maids served up more than drinks, to refer to them more accurately would preclude shows as family intertainment.

Ya, bath, meal, booze, women.

Soooo....

Cat houses were the Walmart of the 1800's? :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Read a book about s...x in the US Civil War which was pretty interesting. In Washington DC, the Provost Marshal, ie, MP's, had a list of cat houses that was rated by starts. I can't remember if they went to 4 or 5 stars but the more stars the better. Guess we have been rating products for longer than we thought. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Some of "businesses" were so bad they were unrated. :shocked: Soldiers were advised to avoid these businesses.

There was a marching song that described about every s...x act one could imagine. :shocked:

There were books with drawings. Of course photography was just starting and certain types of photos were very popular.

One has a view that people were prim and proper back in the day and our society of today is much worse but the reality is quite different. Most of the books and photos from back then were destroyed over time. People would find what was in grandpa old chest and burn it so this look at life back then disappeared. Admiral Nelson was married and running around quite publicly with a married woman who whose husband was much older. Nelson would stay at their house and the husband had to know what was happening. Was quite the scandal. If Nelson had not been such a great Admiral in a time of great need he would almost certainly been forced out of the Royal Navy.

STDs were very prevalent and debilitating to not only the individual, but entire units were unfit for service. In TN, after the Nawth took over Memphis and Nashville, which were two separate districts, major units were unfit for service due to high rates of STD. The generals in these two districts, in spite of their religious beliefs, regulated the cat houses and employees there in. All of the kitty's had to have regular health check ups. If they were healthy, they were issued a health certificate which of course customers would want to see. Part of the fees for the health check up went to providing facilities to handle the birth and offspring that were produced as part of the business as well as STD treatment.

As a result of this legalization/regulation, the rate of STDs in the units dropped to close to zero and the units were back in service.

After the war, Old Soldiers Homes were opened to take care of men whose health had failed or just old age. Many of the men in these homes were suffering mental illness from STDs.

I always thought it was amazing that the western TV shows glamorized or washed over what the women in the "saloon" were really doing. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Kinda surprised the censors allowed it.

Later,
Dan

 

[bunyip]

And a lot of the mental health issues couuld be attributed to the mercury used to treat such social diseases.
Which brings to mind another movie, Cheyenne Social Club, Breakheart Pass had a few 'ladies' too and Unforgiven.

 

[DrRod]

Regarding "How the West was Won" -- I remember seeing that at an early age. We drove the 90 hard mountain miles to Pittsburgh to see it in Cinerama. What's that you say? Well, it was an early attempt to approach 3-D. The screen was curved so the action sort of took place around you a bit. It was very effective during the rapids scene, the big train scene, and some others. I also remember seeing Swiss Family Robinson in Cinerama and everyone ducked when they released the boulders on the attacking pirates.

 

[Diggin It]

This could go into a whole different off-topic tangent, but when 'West' was first mentioned above I did some digging on Cinerama. I remember seeing 'West', 'Mad' and 'Grand Prix' in Cinerama. But it seems there were only 3 or 4 real Cinerama theaters built. The rest were all clones; existing theaters modified with curved screens to simulate the process.

Cinerama - Wikipedia

At the bottom of this page is a list of links to discussions of 31 cities (Pittsburgh is #29): Remembering Cinerama
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