>The series Cheyenne got very indian preachy at times, but it was a good series<
The last few months I watched a lot of Cheyennes. As I said before, the presentation was generally even-handed: not saints, but not complete devils either.
>A series that surprised me and turned out to be good was “Sugarfoot”.<
Never could get into it.
I just dont think it works — certainly not on the level of Maverick.
To me Sugarfoot shouldn’t have worked but the actor made it credible, to me it was a case of the right actor fitting a part that wasn’t made for just anyone.
Maverick was a big-time series, a star-maker, Sugarfoot was the second tier.
Have you noticed in the old series moments of writing that are a little jarring in their unfiltered plain man talk and a lot of realistic reactions and interchanges and vocabulary, and even real-life situations and mentions of details like little details related to law and arrests?
To me, there are moments where you can tell that real men are doing the writing, men who had lived some and hadn’t had all their edges totally smoothed off.