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What are your all time favorite TV westerns?
one man's opinion...

Posted on 08/23/2015 9:51:27 AM PDT by ken5050

The other day, as a change from endless talk about Hillary and Trump I posted a thread asking FReepers what were their favorite TV westerns. (FYI...the link is below) It generated a lot of comments...everyone seemed to be enjoying the trip down memory lane..so I thought I'd do it again..this time asking about your favorite TV westerns.


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To: Zman516

Tombstone Territory
Wanted: Dead or Alive


61 posted on 08/23/2015 11:05:41 AM PDT by Zman516 (Truth is the new hate speech -- Thought-Criminal #1)
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To: ken5050

Red River


62 posted on 08/23/2015 11:08:11 AM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: ken5050

It begins and ends with Audra on “The Big Valley.”

For cowboys,

James Garner on “Maverick.”


63 posted on 08/23/2015 11:09:06 AM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: ken5050
Guess it isn't quite a western, more of a pioneer series, but I did love Daniel Boone. Although because of my age I always linked it to Davy Crockett.
64 posted on 08/23/2015 11:13:05 AM PDT by mware
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To: Stand Watch Listen

I think THE RIFLEMAN made it’s debut on Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater. I remember seeing it there.


65 posted on 08/23/2015 11:13:17 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Never trust anyone who promotes "sensible" gun control laws!)
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To: ken5050
I had wanted to go with the Marlboro Man commercials, but I see it's been mentioned. So all I have left is Petticoat Junction. I think that was out West.

(I had the Yancy Derringer belt-buckle derringer.)

66 posted on 08/23/2015 11:14:28 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: ken5050
Might be reaching here, but,....

The Real McCoys?

67 posted on 08/23/2015 11:17:49 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: HandyDandy
That's country-western.
68 posted on 08/23/2015 11:19:10 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Mark must have surely suffered from PTSD caused by his dad.


69 posted on 08/23/2015 11:20:01 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My favorite westerns were those featuring unusual firearms:

Yancy Derringer - well named since he carried six of them including one in his hat. His sidekick Pahoo had a sawed off shotgun under his blanket.

The Rifleman - 1892 Winchester modified into 20 round slow cyclic rate machine gun. Count the # of rounds fired in the intro. Lucas McCain took out a bad guy who was terrorizing the land with a Sharps rifle which had a full length telescope sight.

Johnny Ringo - Le Mat revolver with its seven shot cylinder & shotgun barrel left many a bad guy dead with a surprised look on his face.

Shotgun Slade - sawed off over/under rifle-shotgun. A one season wonder.

Wanted Dead or Alive - “mare’s leg” cut down Winchester 92. Fired as many shots as full length model. Oversize rounds carried in cartridge belt for effect. Harassed by BATF during filming.

Have Gun Will Travel - Remington derringer in addition to sixgun.

Bat Masterson - short barrelled “Sheriff’s Model” sixgun.

The Rebel - Johnny Yuma sported a sawed off shotgun plus a cap & ball revolver which fired & reloaded just as fast as a cartridge sixgun.

Wild Wild West must have had some anachronistic firearms but I can’t think of any offhand. Maybe a broomhandle Mauser.


70 posted on 08/23/2015 11:20:28 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: ken5050
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71 posted on 08/23/2015 11:42:57 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school)
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To: miss marmelstein

Like Scott Evil.


72 posted on 08/23/2015 11:44:42 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: ken5050

“Lash LaRue”

15 minutes on Saturday morning, sponsored by Reemer’s Blend.

The name and the fact that the hero’s main prop was a whip raises all kinds of questions now ;)


73 posted on 08/23/2015 11:48:14 AM PDT by Walrus (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice - Barry Goldwater)
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To: ken5050

Wanted: Dead or Alive.


74 posted on 08/23/2015 11:51:17 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Walrus

If you’re going to bring up Saturday morning, can’t leave out Sky King and Fury.

Set in the modern-day West.


75 posted on 08/23/2015 11:53:13 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: ken5050

Rawhide - Clint Eastwood (all time favorite)

Maverick - James Garner

Laredo - Neville Brand

Magnificent 7 (1990’s) Eric Close

Brisco County Jr. - Bruce Campbell

Firefly - space western (cancelled way too soon)


76 posted on 08/23/2015 11:54:35 AM PDT by Waryone
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To: Waryone

Neville Brand was awesome.


77 posted on 08/23/2015 11:56:40 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: miss marmelstein

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Hopalong Cassidy
The Cisco Kid
The Roy Rogers Show
Death Valley Days
The Gabby Hayes Show
The Gene Autry Show
The Lone Ranger
Maverick
Sky King
Zorro
Gunsmoke


78 posted on 08/23/2015 12:08:14 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

I watched all of them. My brother and I got in trouble for running around the neighborhood scratching “Z” on all the side of people’s houses.


79 posted on 08/23/2015 12:48:45 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: MUDDOG

Fury was on at 11:30am in NYC and Sky King on at 12:00pm. Then we were kicked out of the house to play.


80 posted on 08/23/2015 12:51:33 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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