What is/was your favorite television western show or series? Mine is Lonesome Dove.

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[Elessar Zappa]

1. Same here.

Love the book too!

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3. Thank You Elessar Zappa.

[XanaDUer2]

2. BONANZA!!!

Love it

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4. Thank you , XanaDUer2

[FalloutShelter]

5. Deadwood

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10. Thank you FalloutShelter.

[justaprogressive]

6. Kung Fu

Still a great pity they bypassed Bruce Lee in favor of Carradine!

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11. Thank you, Justaprogressive. Used to watch. I didn't know they bypassed Bruce Lee in favor of Carradine. Was there a

reason?

[justaprogressive]

15. At the time, despite his having played

Kato in "The Green Hornet" (often masked on film),

he still was not well known...so the studio opted for a "name"..

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16. Thank you, justaprogessive.That's a shame.

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[malthaussen]

90. That's one way of looking at it.

I'm sure racism had no part in the decision. Although that movie they made about Bruce Lee implies that the networks thought it was okay to have an Asian as a sidekick, but not as the lead.

The movie also implies that the show was Lee's brainchild, and he expected the lead role.

-- Mal

[Easterncedar]

70. Ahhh. Saturday mornings watching Kung Fu reruns

When I was a college stoner. It was a gently fun show, a bit hokey. I don’t think they could do the …ahem… cross-cultural casting today.

[OLDMDDEM]

7. Wagon Train.

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12. Thank you OLDMDDEM, I used to watch.

[OLDMDDEM]

17. I remember it only because it looked real when I was a kid.

[Mr.Bill]

8. The Wild, Wild West.

It occurs to me that this could also be an answer to your thread about favorite detective shows.

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13. TY Mr, Bill, I was going to poat it.Loved that show.

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[OldBaldy1701E]

48. You got it. Always was my favorite western show.

And my favorite show villain? Why, you can spot him sneaking around the DU on occasion!

[Easterncedar]

62. Good one!

[AllaN01Bear]

9. bonanza. gunsmoke . high plains drifter.

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14. Thank you Allan01Bear, All classics.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

18. The Legend of Jesse James (only ran for one season, 1965).

My 13-year-old self had a biiiiiig crush on the star, Christopher Jones.

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19. Ty 50 Shades of Blue. I remember that.

[nevergiveup]

20. Have Gun Will Travel and Gunsmoke

The only gun I own in real life is my childhood Red Ryder BB gun.

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21. Ty, But remember "Don't shot your eye out"

[nevergiveup]

47. Thank you. I don't think it is loaded

but I am not 100% sure of that and I am 79 and don't shoot straight so if anyone breaks into my place I will probably just surrender.

[Emile]

22. Deadwood

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25. TY Emile

[JoseBalow]

23. The Big Valley

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24. TY JoseBalow

[Lochloosa]

54. I would have road a horse across the US to meet Linda Evans

[Easterncedar]

63. I loved that show

Barbara Stanwyck was such a class act. I tried to watch it again recently….

[gay texan]

26. Wild wild west

Artie was awesome!!!!

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51. TY, really liked Artie and all the gadgets he came up with

[rsdsharp]

27. Johnny Ringo. It was only on one year when I was 5.

It featured a LeMat revolver — nine shots (the one in the show only had six), and a shotgun shell from a second barrel. Cool, but at 4.1 pounds Ringo would have been shooting the slowest gun in the west.

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56. TY rsesharp.

[cloudbase]

28. Gunsmoke

The relationships between Matt, Kitty, Festus, and Doc were well written and marvelously acted.

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57. Agree. TY cloudbase.

[chicoescuela]

77. What about Chester? A serious question, who was more valuable to Matt

Chester or Festus?
Probably Kitty

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82. I saw Kitty

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[LoisB]

29. The Guns of Will Sonnett

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58. Ty LoisB

[arkielib]

30. Rawhide reruns when I was a child.

I loved Clint Eastwood then. Now, not at all. I also watched Bonanza, Gunsmoke and The Big Valley. I'm not a big fan of westerns now though.

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36. TY arkirlib

[HUAJIAO]

31. The Lone Ranger.

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37. TY

[CanonRay]

32. A tie. Have Gun Will Travel and The Rifleman

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40. TY CanonRay.Two great picks

[hatrack]

33. Broken Trail - miniseries rather than a series, but really good . . . .

Robert Duvall, Greta Scacchi, Thomas Haden-Church, from about . . . 2009 or 2010.

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41. TY hatrack

[FuzzyRabbit]

34. Hopalong Cassidy

B movie westerns. They made 60 Hoppies starting in 1935, before the TV series. Most were pretty good. They were better than the 1/2 hour TV Hoppies in my opinion. The earliest had much bigger budgets than other B-westerns, so had better production and scripts.

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39. TY FuzzyRabbit

[AltairIV]

35. My top three

The Big Valley
The Wild, Wild West
and The Virginian which in it's final season became the Men from Shiloh with a terrific opening credits score by the great Ennio Morricone.

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38. TY AltairIV

[rurallib]

42. I will have to go with the original 'Maverick' with James Garner

not much gunplay.

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52. Thank you ruralib. I agree with you.

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53. Thank you ruralib. I agree with you.

[Different Drummer]

43. My favorites

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Maverick (James Garner episodes)
The Wild, Wild West
The Big Valley
Laredo (can't seem to find it on TV anymore).

ETA: The High Chapparal

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59. TY Different Drummer. I enjoyed the first three, but don't remember Larendo.

[Different Drummer]

64. It was about the Texas Rangers.

IMDB information about it at the link.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058819/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_7_nm_1_q_Laredo

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67. TY

[thucythucy]

44. The Monroes. nt

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73. TY thucythucy

[IcyPeas]

45. Alias Smith & Jones..... because Pete Duel ❤️

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74. TY IcyPeas. It was sad about him

[brush]

46. "Maverick" with James Garner, and "Have Gun, Will travel."

[Easterncedar]

65. Maverick was fun

James Garner, great in everything

[brush]

68. James Garner was great. He was an ardent Democrat too.

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75. TY brush

[marble falls]

49. The original, Richard Chamberlin Shogun and of course, Lonesome Dove - the original one ...

... Samurai movies are westerns - Magnificent Seven, the Outrage - started out samurai movies by the same director.

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69. I really liked Shogun. I saw it when it was first shown as a series and have not been able to located since. And Richard

Chamberlin was eye candy.

[marble falls]

94. I'll take your word on the eye appeal, but he's underated as an actor and I thought he was really good ...

... I thought the whole series was good, well written, cast, and acted. I can't wait to binge watch it sometime.

[GreenWave]

50. Johnny Yuma and Branded

What was wrong with me?

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61. TY GreenWave. Nothing is wrong with you. Though I don't remember the shows. I am sure you did.

[SARose]

55. Happy Trails to You

The Roy Rogers Show

Annie Oakley - first grade lunch box

Sky King

Yes, I am a child of the 50’s.😉

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60. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Thank you SARose.

[Easterncedar]

66. Does anyone remember The High Chaparral?

It had an interesting cast. The Puerto Rican actor, Henry Darrow, who played Manolito, stole the show, which seemed groundbreaking at the time.

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86. Ty Easterncedar. I remember the name but don't remember watching.

[VGNonly]

71. The miniseries Centennial.

James Michener wrote epics!

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72. TY VGNonly

[303squadron]

76. The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca

Like the Lincoln Lawyer, Elfego Baca broke the mold in that he was Hispanic and the good guy. It was a Disney tv show!

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85. Thank you 303squadron.

[Codifer]

78. Anyo e remember "Yancy Derringer".

Sort of an 1840s James Bond in antebellum. New Orleans and with a prototype Tonto. Good gambler and dressed to the nines.

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87. TY Codifer. It sounds like the Wild, Wild West.

[vanlassie]

79. "Laurie Darling."

Lonesome Dove. ❤️

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88. Thank you vanlassie.

[Not Heidi]

80. I offer a movie instead: Silverado.

Great cast: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Linda Hunt,* Brian Dennehy

If you haven't seen it, find it (or wait for it) streaming. It's a really, really good movie.

* Linda Hunt is the only person to win an Oscar in a role portraying a member of the opposite sex, in The Year of Living Dangerously. She's wonderful.

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84. Thank you very much, Not Heidi. I will be on the look out for Silverado.

[Brother Buzz]

81. Maverick

My Pappy always said, "A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but one." A thousand to one is pretty good odds.

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83. Thank you, Brother Buzz

[malthaussen]

89. Well, we used to watch "Bonanza" a lot.

So I guess that's my favorite. Unless you count "Here Come the Brides," because I had the hots for Bridget Hanley.

I suppose "Wild, Wild, West" qualifies, I mean it has "West" in the name and all, but I've never really thought of it as a Western.

-- Mal

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92. Thank you Mal

[malthaussen]

91. Though not my favorites, I watched every episode of "Branded" and "The Rifleman"

And "F Troop," for that matter. Hey, it was the sixties, every other show was a Western.

-- Ma;

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93. HAHAHAHAHA. Thanks , MAL