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The Young Riders was also pretty good. I think the writers and producers at the time considered it more entertainment with a message than a period correct study of society.
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My wife and I still watch gun smoke, Death Valley days, maverick, wagon train, riffle man,and others
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I think that the hay day of the really good westerns were made from around 1953 thru around 1963. The golden decade of westerns. Not referencing specific shows but just the western productions on general... Before all the multi million dollar productions. That was also the era of the old singing Cowboys. Agreed...
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Its gettin to be like the “bad day fishin better than good day at work” thang. A bad western is better than any current crap. Couldn't agree more. With all the PC bullcrap, and every director hell bent on pushing his own political agenda, movies are hardly worth watching. Like many, my favorites are Gunsmoke, Rawhide, and The Rifleman. Festus had to be the ultimate sidekick. As for movies, I'm a big Duke guy. John Wayne captivated me as a kid. To me, he personified the western lawman and the beer and a shot kind of man.
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Television no longer seeks simply to entertain as it used to.. now everything seems to have an agenda,a message or actors trying to win some insignificant award. At our house we watch nothing of new programming and are grateful for all the classy old shows.
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I like most of 'em!
Richard, I had the pleasure of meeting Cameron Mitchell once. Also had lunch with Henry Darrow. (He played Monolito)
Latly been watching The Virginian on the Western Channel. They are good. 2nd place to Gunsmoke.
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They were good then, better than the cshit on TV now!!!
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ALL TV shows are liberal and contain so much of the social engineering that I won't watch a single one of them. None.
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When I was a kid I was very upset when mom told me Ward Bond died. He was staying at the Townhouse Motel on Harry Hines Blvd. in Dallas when he suffered a fatal heart attack, about 1961, I think. Yes! Think he was suppose to go to the the UT/OU football game at the state fair. Reason he was in Dallas! We were living in Ft. Worth at the time.
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I never could figure out Roy Rogers. I mean, it was a Western and Roy and everybody carried six shooters in buscadero holsters and rode horses and caught cattle rustlers and everything, then along comes Pat Brady in his jeep Nellie Belle. As a 7 year old kid I kept thinking “wtf?”, or would have if I knew that last word.
Took me years to decipher what was going on.
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Rogers was a unique breed with his fringes and silver plated everything. Even his horse was decked out in circus finery.
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The movie cowboys - I'm partial to Gary Cooper, will pretty much watch anything he is in, and of course Jimmy Stewart. I like the John Ford/John Wayne movies and it took awhile for me to come around to Randolph Scott - his acting is pretty stiff but he made a bunch of good Saturday Matinee movies.
I'm not as much of a fan of late 60's/70's westerns - while the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns are great (Once Upon a Time in the West), all the others just took on that Wild Bunch feel.
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Rogers was a unique breed with his fringes and silver plated everything. Even his horse was decked out in circus finery. He was "King of the Cowboys" so I guess he had to dress the part. 
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Cisco Kid and Range Rider when I WAS a little kid...Tombstone Territory when a bit older. Really liked the theme tune on TT Whistle me up a memory Whistle me back where I want to be Whistle a tune that will carry me To Tombstone Territory If your past has run afoul the law It's a handy place to be But your future's just a good as your draw In Tombstone Territory Whistle me up a memory Whistle me back where I want to be Whistle a tune that will carry me To Tombstone Territory Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/tombstoneterritorylyrics.html
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Rogers was a unique breed with his fringes and silver plated everything. Even his horse was decked out in circus finery. He was "King of the Cowboys" so I guess he had to dress the part. Queen of the cowboys maybe.
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Last week I rented THE BIG TRAIL on Amazon to see the real wagons, oxen, horses, mules, cattle, and wranglers. Well worth the effort. And the leading lady has a great real rack.
Sorry. Regarding TV westerns. None that I am aware of that I could possibly stand to watch.
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All the country and western singers of the 40's-70's wore glitter suits. It was just a fad I suppose. Roy and Dale Evans were truly great for kids. They always had a good moral code of ethics. I'd rather have a kid watching them than some of the tripe that's passed off as entertainment today.
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You're all just a bunch of 'ornery old scudders'...............got to love the Festusisms. Gunsmoke was and is still king of the western series'.
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No one sang the Rawhide theme song better than Jake and Elwood.
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