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RRio · « **on:** January 16, 2007, 01:57:26 AM »

What was your favorite TV Western?

I grew up watching practically all them with my Dad. I think it was a toss-up between Bonanza or Gunsmoke with him. My favorite was Chuck Conners as The Rifleman, with Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma in the Rebel coming in as my second favorite.

Boy, wasn't it great back then, when we never worried about the guns' time period??! I'd sure like to see them bring those all back on TV rather than the crap they put on now-a-days.

Virginia Reb · « **Reply #1 on:** January 16, 2007, 02:13:12 PM »

I am a little young for the major western era. So, I had to catch the syndication of the westerns. So, I have to say some of my favorites were Rawhide, Rifleman, Wagon Train and of course Gunsmoke. I still watch Gunsmoke on TV Land on a regular basis.

I have to say that I received the Season One of Magnificent Seven. Which was a 90's western. I have say that I have really liked the episodes that I have seen. I don't remember it being on when it was first run. But, it is really cool. I like the different guns that they use in it. They even have one of the guys using a sawed off rifle like McQueen used in Wanted Dead or Alive.

Ozark Tracker · « **Reply #2 on:** January 16, 2007, 02:18:33 PM »

I can remember always waiting on Saturday night, all the biggies, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Have Gun will Travel, when I was real young I remember getting my guns ready for the shows, put em on and when the shooting started, I'd be right there with the good guys living that shoot out with em.

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Buffalo Creek Law Dog · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2007, 09:45:20 AM »

I watched them then and I still watch them on the western channel....Rifleman, Bat Masterson, Judge Roy Bean, Bonanza, Rawhide, have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Annie Oakley,The Lone Ranger etc.

I think they call it "Nostalga"

Major 2 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2007, 11:57:35 AM »

Favorite hmmmm !

Rin Tin Tin
Bonanza
Have Gun....
20 Mule Team Borax show
and Sky King
those were never missed...

Others were
Wanted Dead or Alive
F Troop

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #5 on:** January 19, 2007, 01:53:16 PM »

We got our first TV set in 1953, so I got to see all the early TV Westerns. We only had two TV stations at that time, one was the CBS station and the other was the NBC station. We got ABC in about 1960. I watched them all: The Texan, The Restless Gun, Trackdown, Wanted Dead or Alive, Tales of Wells Fargo, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will travel, Rawhide, Maverick, Cheynenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco, Colt 45, Lawman, The Deputy, Wyatt Earp, The Rifleman, The Rebel, The Texas Rangers, and my personal favorite show, Gunsmoke. Shotgun Slade, Bat Masterson, Jim Bowie, and Yancey Derringer. Later shows included, The Virginian, Laramie, Cimmaron Strip, and Branded. AMC has Saturday Morning Westerns and the Western Channel both of which keep the Western Movies alive for us guys that grew up, sitting in front of our tv sets, wearing our sixguns and helping the good guys get the bad guys. I still haven't grown up, I still like to watch them and I get to go out catch the bad guys. I'm one of the good guys and I've been catching bad guys for 36 years.

harycalahand · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2007, 11:04:06 AM »

When I was a wee lad LONG LONG, ago Saterday night was the only night my mother refused to cook a hot meal Sat was sandwich night we never missed the lineup that night . Must see TV? that was it for my money take all the stinking mess off of TV and bring them all back Gunsmoke and all the rest.

Henry4440 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2007, 11:38:30 AM »

Quote from: Rawhide Rio on January 16, 2007, 01:57:26 AM

What was your favorite TV Western?

In Germany 1969, they show ' High Chapparal' on TV.They show at 9p.m.
I was a little boy of seven years.When i heard the music i .....
Years later, 1984 they show it again. Wow, when i heard the music.
It was and is my favorite Western on TV.

The Elderly Kid · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2007, 02:12:58 PM »

I loved "Have Gun" because it was the most literate. I also liked the quirky ones. "Yancey Derringer" starred legendary stuntman Jock Mahoney and his favored weapon was a sheath knife, something you rarely saw in those days, and his sidekick Pahoo favored a knife and a sawed-off shotgun. It was a nice change from the inevitable six-shooters. I caught "The Iron Horse" on Armed Forces tv in Vietnam and liked that about half the characters were immigrants, as they so often were in the real West. You never heard so many Scottish, German and Norweigan accents in your life, all around the same poker table.

Major 2 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 01, 2007, 07:57:39 AM »

In the same... direction ...

Favorite episode... on Bonanza....

Hoss , stumbles on to some Circus midgets, he thinks they are leprechaun's....

To this Day I remember the ... big man talking in a high falsetto voice ...

" Where are you ? " ... " I'm ova heaaaa !"

Cracks me up...

RRio · « **Reply #10 on:** March 02, 2007, 02:06:02 PM »

Just bought the DVD MEGA pack of the Rifleman (80 episodes) and I'm enjoying the heck out of them!

Grapeshot · « **Reply #11 on:** March 03, 2007, 02:49:14 PM »

Quote from: Texas Lawdog on January 19, 2007, 01:53:16 PM

We got our first TV set in 1953, so I got to see all the early TV Westerns. We only had two TV stations at that time, one was the CBS station and the other was the NBC station. We got ABC in about 1960. I watched them all: The Texan, The Restless Gun, Trackdown, Wanted Dead or Alive, Tales of Wells Fargo, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will travel, Rawhide, Maverick, Cheynenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco, Colt 45, Lawman, The Deputy, Wyatt Earp, The Rifleman, The Rebel, The Texas Rangers, and my personal favorite show, Gunsmoke. Shotgun Slade, Bat Masterson, Jim Bowie, and Yancey Derringer. Later shows included, The Virginian, Laramie, Cimmaron Strip, and Branded. AMC has Saturday Morning Westerns and the Western Channel both of which keep the Western Movies alive for us guys that grew up, sitting in front of our tv sets, wearing our sixguns and helping the good guys get the bad guys. I still haven't grown up, I still like to watch them and I get to go out catch the bad guys. I'm one of the good guys and I've been catching bad guys for 36 years.

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DITTO!

I loved them all. Used to strap on my guns and get out the Winchester lever POP GUN and blaze away at the bad guys when the LONE RANGER was on.

Forty Rod · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2007, 12:26:30 PM »

Trackdown with Robert Culp, and any Red Ryder.

Mustang Gregg · « **Reply #13 on:** March 13, 2007, 12:34:50 AM »

Cimmaron Strip cames to mind first. Recollect a gal named Dulcey?? But I've never ever seen it on re-runs.
I did catch the Rifleman a few weeks ago. That was one I liked a lot too.
MG

Marshal Will Wingam · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2007, 12:51:57 AM »

I think it's a toss-up between Maverick and Have Gun Will Travel. Wanted Dead or Alive and Nickels were close behind.

Silver Creek Slim · « **Reply #15 on:** March 13, 2007, 04:58:12 PM »

Quote from: Rawhide Rio on March 02, 2007, 02:06:02 PM

Just bought the DVD MEGA pack of the Rifleman (80 episodes) and I'm enjoying the heck out of them!

Where did ya get it?

Slim

Mogorilla · « **Reply #16 on:** March 14, 2007, 11:55:42 AM »

I really enjoyed Lazarus Man. I was real sorry to see him pass.

The Elderly Kid · « **Reply #17 on:** March 14, 2007, 10:19:04 PM »

Hotel de Paree, with Earl Holliman as the gunslinger with the deadliest hatband in the west, and Strother Martin as his sidekick. The opening credits were well ahead of their time, with animated cartridges clicking into the chambers of a realistically rotating Colt cylinder. It was the sort of animation you expect to see now. Honestly, I can't remember the details of a single episode, but I remember the quirky casting and oddball gimmicks.
Trackdown had the greatest theme music.

Sod Buster · « **Reply #18 on:** March 15, 2007, 01:01:09 AM »

Quote from: Mustang Gregg on March 13, 2007, 12:34:50 AM

Cimmaron Strip cames to mind first. Recollect a gal named Dulcey?? But I've never ever seen it on re-runs.
I did catch the Rifleman a few weeks ago. That was one I liked a lot too.
MG

If you get the Westerns Channel, you can see it...and Dulcey still looks the same!

minerotago · « **Reply #19 on:** May 30, 2008, 04:41:16 AM »

Really liked 'The Virginian', 'Rawhide' and 'Have Gun Will Travel' and rather liked 'Branded'
Also really liked I think it was called 'Destry Rides Again'

I have always treasured an original 4th printing of 'The Virginian'. published in 1904. Its a great book.

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