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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat was your favorite television western series? as a child or an adult.
no_hypocrisy
(48,778 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,790 posts)the only western where the Indians were all Jewish. Great show.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,790 posts)I don't mean they were racially or religiously Jewish, I just mean they seemd to talk with a Jewish accent.
bullimiami
(13,989 posts)F Troop and Rat Patrol.
That was some tv.
I could have put many more.
brush
(57,471 posts)bovine6
(48 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)chicoescuela
(1,566 posts)like it is today.
Edit: wasnt available to watch
debm55
(35,903 posts)Ocelot II
(120,813 posts)Not really a fan of westerns now, but I did enjoy the series "Longmire," a modern western on Netflix.
debm55
(35,903 posts)WheelWalker
(9,199 posts)although I liked most all of the early western genre. Remember Sugarfoot?
Others:
Maverick
Rawhide
Wagon Train
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
The Rifleman
Brother Buzz
(37,795 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(3,758 posts)Love the song.
chowmama
(506 posts)High Chaparral was a second favorite, just because it wasn't so dirt-free. I always thought it was humorous when somebody got off an extended stagecoach ride looking like they'd just stepped out of their hotel room.
And Artemus Gordon was worth the entire rest of Wild Wild West.
FalloutShelter
(12,746 posts)More: Wild Wild West
debm55
(35,903 posts)XanaDUer2
(13,829 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)ailsagirl
(23,801 posts)flakey_foont
(3,394 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)arkielib
(353 posts)I don't watch any westerns now. My mom and dad watch them all day long though. There's apparently a "westerns channel" and I think they just keep their tv on that channel.
debm55
(35,903 posts)arkielib
(353 posts)I think it was formerly called the Inspiration Channel.
brush
(57,471 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Different Drummer
(8,564 posts)I watch it sometimes.
Mr.Bill
(24,790 posts)As an adult, 1923.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Walleye
(35,658 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)rurallib
(63,195 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Glorfindel
(9,919 posts)As an adult, "Bonanza."
debm55
(35,903 posts)doc03
(36,694 posts)debm55
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debm55
(35,903 posts)And later, would Little House on the Prairie be a western? I loved me some Michael Landon!!
Also, I just remembered, Alias Smith and Jones!!
debm55
(35,903 posts)House of Roberts
(5,683 posts)As an adult, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. Hugh O'Brien plays Earp, but the supporting characters make the show. Morgan Woodward as Shotgun Gibbs, Trevor Bardette as Old Ike Clanton, and Douglas Fowley, as the best Doc Holliday I ever saw in all the movies and other TV shows about Earp.
debm55
(35,903 posts)patphil
(6,940 posts)As an adult, none.
debm55
(35,903 posts)gainesvillenole
(133 posts)Still like watching Paladins adventures on HandI & MeTV!
debm55
(35,903 posts)Different Drummer
(8,564 posts)Had no idea it was on MeTV.
Mosby
(17,452 posts)Metaphorical
(2,308 posts)James Garner was great regardless of what role he played.
I remember watching Kung Fu when i was growing up, and it influenced both my love of both the Western genre and of Asian culture. Admittedly, somewhat colored by David Carridine's behavior later in life.
debm55
(35,903 posts)was supposed to have the part as he developed the series but got very depressed when Carridine got it.
brush
(57,471 posts)I saved a photo of him and Diane Carroll at the March on Washington back in the '60s. Can't find it now.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(91 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)jmowreader
(51,438 posts)I said it was because Lucas had already shot everyone in Hollywood at least once and Johnny Crawford aged out of his role. There are freakin' Entire Websites devoted to all the people who got killed on that show.
GreenWave
(9,167 posts)When my mom tried to forceabossinate me, she got angry and asked what that meant. I said it means to boss someone around who was going to do it anyway.
Then came the punishment and I quoted Johnny Yuma, "For what ? A man doesn't fight for dignity, he lives for it!"
Was I ever a confused hothead back then,
debm55
(35,903 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,023 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(6,338 posts)Elessar Zappa
(15,887 posts)I liked Gunsmoke and the Rifleman when I watched them with my dad as a child.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Eugene
(62,646 posts)When I was a kid: F-Troop.
debm55
(35,903 posts)thucythucy
(8,742 posts)As a child I identified with these kids trying to make it without their parents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monroes_(1966_TV_series)
Haven't seen it since then though.
debm55
(35,903 posts)TommieMommy
(1,096 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Fla Dem
(25,679 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 1, 2024, 08:20 PM - Edit history (1)
Then "The Lone Ranger" with Tonto and their horses; Silver and Scout. Hi Ho Silver!!
And we can't forget Pat Brady and the Jeep Nellybelle on Roy Rogers,
debm55
(35,903 posts)Not Heidi
(1,457 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 2, 2024, 09:55 PM - Edit history (1)
I loved Calamity Jane. Robin Weigert, a fine actress, portrayed her so very well.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Kali
(55,735 posts)watched a lot of them, but hard to choose a fave. probably F troop or Wild Wild West, but watched Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel, the Virginian, Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger. never really liked the Rifleman (hated kids and helpless, ankle-twisting women in action shows LOL)
debm55
(35,903 posts)including High Chaparel
debm55
(35,903 posts)brush
(57,471 posts)Last edited Sun Nov 3, 2024, 05:23 PM - Edit history (3)
I was a student and Black Student Union member manning our table in the student union mall at the University of Arizona when advance men came on campus looking for Black extras for an episode on the 10th Calvary, the Buffalo Soldiers who were based ad Ft. Huachuca south of Tucson.
They asked if I and my friends would be interested in being in the show as members of the Buffalo Soldiers. He didn't have to ask twice. Our whole group reported for duty for two days. They suited us up in blue cavalry uniforms for two days of filming. Got paid $45 bucks, free lunch. It was a great experience. Stars were Linda Crystal, Cameron Mitchel and Henry Darrow (who had to have a stool to mount his horse).
We were shown standing at attention in the background as one of us, who was clothed in a corporal's uniform with two stripes, bought a general his horse.
I used to have a b&w Polaroid shot of us posing in a group in our uniforms but it's so long ago, the image has faded away.
great story. are you still in Tucson or AZ?
brush
(57,471 posts)Have relatives in Tucson still.
MaryMagdaline
(7,879 posts)Different Drummer
(8,564 posts)As an adult, I've come to like and appreciate them. My favorites:
The Wild Wild West (love Arte's disguises!)
Maverick (I'm a big James Garner fan)
The High Chaparral (I'm a big Cameron Mitchell/Henry Darrow fan)
The Big Valley
Have Gun, Will Travel
Wanted Dead or Alive
Laredo (I can't seem to find it on TV anymore. The network that was showing it replaced it with The Gene Autry Show some time ago.)
debm55
(35,903 posts)hunter
(38,919 posts)My great grandmothers were the sorts of women who could kill a bad man and call the sheriff/coroner to clean up the mess and file the proper paperwork. My great grandfathers were dreamers. Their wives were the hunters handy with rifles and knives.
My grandparents had some things in common -- they were not Mormons and they'd left their family farms and ranches behind for the bright lights of the big city, somehow landing in Hollywood.
I have pictures of my grandparents with movie and television stars who portrayed the Wild West as It Never Was.
My mom had no patience with television or movie westerns and wouldn't let us watch them. During World War II her parents had both worked in the naval shipyards as welders and they'd sent her off on the train every summer to live with her grandparents on their ranch, supposedly to keep her safe from any Japanese invasion. (Mostly it was because they were not good parents.)
My great grandparent's house had no indoor plumbing and my mom was expected to work alongside everyone else, which must have been disconcerting to a city girl. Summer was not a vacation. The house still had no indoor plumbing when me and my siblings were kids but whenever we visited my mom shielded us from any chores my great grandma might have demanded. This caused some family friction.
Weirdly, we were allowed to watch The Wild Wild West, maybe because it's what's now called an "alternate universe" fantasy, far removed from the Wild West my mom knew. I have a boxed DVD set of that.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Aristus
(68,327 posts)My Dad used to join me and my brother to watch the show on Sunday afternoons.
Like probably a lot of viewers, I was a huge fan of Tonto, played by the incomparable First Nations actor, Jay Silverheels. I loved his name. It was so cool.
debm55
(35,903 posts)electric_blue68
(17,977 posts)Definitely liked Tonto on Lone Ranger.
But then I discovered Science Fiction - Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and Star Trek; and it was bye-bye Westerns.
As an Adult: I loved "The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr". Very clever, very funny!
debm55
(35,903 posts)Niagara
(9,565 posts)The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. I love actor Dan Haggerty. He was a charitable and kind man.
My other television series was Little House on the Prairie.
As an adult I still revisit Grizzly Adams and LHOTP. I also like The Son with Pierce Bronson and Zahn McClarnon. I was disappointed when the show was canceled. The Son: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3839822/
I picked up all 3 seasons of Deadwood on DVD at an estate sale some months ago and I still haven't watched it. Also on my "would like watch list" is Longmire and Yellowstone, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Niagara
(9,565 posts)murielm99
(31,433 posts)The Lone Ranger. When I was older, Maverick.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Emile
(29,783 posts)As an adult HBO Deadwood!
debm55
(35,903 posts)area51
(12,140 posts)as it's sort of a sci-fi western?
I should have checked before adding it downthread.
wikipedia agrees on genre
JoseBalow
(5,138 posts)Barbara Stanwyck, Linda Evans, Lee Majors, Richard Long... It was a great show!
You can watch full episodes for free on YouTube.
debm55
(35,903 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,547 posts)Uncle Joe
(60,130 posts)I loved the idea of having my own train and their episodes were very creative.
Thanks for the thread debm
debm55
(35,903 posts)quaint
(3,544 posts)Didn't realize before reading this thread that I'm such a big fan of the genre.
debm55
(35,903 posts)It was part of the Saturday morning lineup - RoyRogers, Sky King, My Friend Flicka, Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid. All in glorious black and white.
debm55
(35,903 posts)bikebloke
(5,262 posts)Deadwood, as an adult.
CrispyQ
(38,238 posts)It was Bonanza with a chick in charge. Looking back, it would have been nice if she'd had more than one daughter & that daughter had been a real tom boy. LOL. I just looked it up. I'd forgotten the six million dollar man was in it.
debm55
(35,903 posts)chicoescuela
(1,566 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)MuseRider
(34,364 posts)it was Roy Rogers. I even got to see him live at the fair. I had a pedal jeep I named NellyBelle.
Other than that, probably not an actual western, was The Real McCoy. I loved Grandpa, Walter Brennen (look him up, what a horrible right winger he was). I got to meet him at the fair, my first experience that people on TV were big like the rest of us. I pondered that for a very long time.
debm55
(35,903 posts)MuseRider
(34,364 posts)when I saw that and it was fairly recently. I am embarrassed to say that all these years later, many disappointments under my belt, I was really sad to read about it. It is pretty deep.
debm55
(35,903 posts)Tiny Tabby
(26 posts)Roy Rodger's was my favorite. Second was The Cisco Kid. Loved Leo Carrillo.
My grandmother was born in Dodge City and my grandfather in Oklahoma. Distant relatives include Dale Evans and Will Rogers.
debm55
(35,903 posts)The Wizard
(12,863 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)brush
(57,471 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)marble falls
(62,046 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)oldtime dfl_er
(6,987 posts)Don't judge me
debm55
(35,903 posts)oldtime dfl_er
(6,987 posts)It only managed one season I think. I only liked it because i was in love with Tom Nardini
debm55
(35,903 posts)pat_k
(10,877 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,957 posts)It is, however, the truest depiction of the "wild west" you will EVER watch. How dead bodies were disposed of it one example of many.
debm55
(35,903 posts)dem4decades
(11,910 posts)To a kid, westerns didn't have guys riding around in Jeeps,
debm55
(35,903 posts)Buttoneer
(647 posts)debm55
(35,903 posts)MaryMagdaline
(7,879 posts)Loved Manolito !
debm55
(35,903 posts)Upthevibe
(9,095 posts)The Big Valley (Heath....Lee Majors.... Bonanza, Gunsmoke......)
I don't really watch westerns that much anymore but now that I'm thinking about it I really did like them as a kid.