GREAT theme songs and music. Made me hate 70's crap shows and their crappier themes even worse.
Compare High Chapparel or Big Valley opening to.....Three's company or Different Strokes.
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of . Confucius
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.
Gunsmoke, Tales of Wells Fargo, Rawhide.....I like em all. Lawman has the worst actors but I'll set through an episode of it before I'll watch one of today's homo shows....
Yeah but...Lawman had John Russell.
Leo of the Land of Dyr
NRA FOR LIFE
I MISS SARAH
“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
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.
The Rogers were solid Christians and they gave a bunch of their money to help disadvantaged kids besides adopting 4 of them. He'd been married twice before. His 2d wife died a few days after the birth of their son Roy Jr. He married Dale a year or so later and they were together for about 50 years. I read somewhere that he was worth over $100 mill when he died. They were all around good people.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
Gunsmoke, Tales of Wells Fargo, Rawhide.....I like em all. Lawman has the worst actors but I'll set through an episode of it before I'll watch one of today's homo shows....
Gunsmoke, Tales of Wells Fargo, Rawhide.....I like em all. Lawman has the worst actors but I'll set through an episode of it before I'll watch one of today's homo shows....
Yeah but...Lawman had John Russell.
John did really well in Pale Rider.
But he died anyways.
Leo of the Land of Dyr
NRA FOR LIFE
I MISS SARAH
“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
Lots of good ones, but I think the original thirty-minute Gunsmoke episodes were a bit better than all the rest of the TV westerns, including the one-hour Gunsmokes.The half-hour Gunsmokes had considerably more violence per minute than the more civilized, toned-down episodes of the '60s and '70s.
In later years, I suppose they were in search of good material that couldn't be found which accounts for the incredibly dull character of Thad and truly goofy segments with Festus' half-wit relatives.
Lots of good ones, but I think the original thirty-minute Gunsmoke episodes were a bit better than all the rest of the TV westerns, including the one-hour Gunsmokes.The half-hour Gunsmokes had considerably more violence per minute than the more civilized, toned-down episodes of the '60s and '70s.
In later years, I suppose they were in search of good material that couldn't be found which accounts for the incredibly dull character of Thad and truly goofy segments with Festus' half-wit relatives.
I'll tell you a little story about that. I wrote several Gunsmoke scripts in the early 1970s. On one -- I think it might have been my second or third script -- I'd already done the story outline and the first draft teleplay and the production office at CBS had given me the "go ahead" to do the final draft teleplay.
They called me in to the Gunsmoke office on the CBS Studio City lot to get a couple of notes to add to the final draft. I was sitting in John Mantley's office. Mantley was Executive Producer of the show. He said, "Leanwolf, there's a problem with your script."
I said, "Oh, what's the problem?"
He said, "We got a directive down from CBS Standards and Practices that we are having far too many killings on Gunsmoke. In your script, you've killed seven people. That's too many."
I said, "Well how many can I kill?"
Mantley said, "Three."
I said, "Okay, I'll resurrect four of them and just wound them."
He said, "That'll work."
So that's what I did when I revised the final draft teleplay.
The reason for "less violence" on Gunsmoke was the fault of the wooses at CBS Standards and Practices, not the producers.
BTW, I never wrote for Festus' goofy relatives, nor Thad.
FWIW.
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
I was always fan of Richard Boone and I supposed "Have gun will travel" was one of the great shows but I've only seen it in reruns. It was on on Saturday nights, and Saturday nights in that period I was never home.
Saturdays were date, tail chasing, hell raising nights.
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.
I have never watched a bad Gary Cooper movie. He was a Western actor supreme, and just as good in other things as well. I'm a John Wayne fan, but Cooper was every bit as good. Jimmy Stewart was without a doubt a tremendous actor, but he just didn't have the appeal for me that Wayne and Cooper had. I also like the old Errol Flynn westerns, as well as his other films. Same way with Randolph Scott, he was better than 99% of todays actors.
Hey Ranger Green? How ‘bout a little rub of the brush????
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
Lots of good ones, but I think the original thirty-minute Gunsmoke episodes were a bit better than all the rest of the TV westerns, including the one-hour Gunsmokes.The half-hour Gunsmokes had considerably more violence per minute than the more civilized, toned-down episodes of the '60s and '70s.
In later years, I suppose they were in search of good material that couldn't be found which accounts for the incredibly dull character of Thad and truly goofy segments with Festus' half-wit relatives.
I'll tell you a little story about that. I wrote several Gunsmoke scripts in the early 1970s. On one -- I think it might have been my second or third script -- I'd already done the story outline and the first draft teleplay and the production office at CBS had given me the "go ahead" to do the final draft teleplay.
They called me in to the Gunsmoke office on the CBS Studio City lot to get a couple of notes to add to the final draft. I was sitting in John Mantley's office. Mantley was Executive Producer of the show. He said, "Leanwolf, there's a problem with your script."
I said, "Oh, what's the problem?"
He said, "We got a directive down from CBS Standards and Practices that we are having far too many killings on Gunsmoke. In your script, you've killed seven people. That's too many."
I said, "Well how many can I kill?"
Mantley said, "Three."
I said, "Okay, I'll resurrect four of them and just wound them."
He said, "That'll work."
So that's what I did when I revised the final draft teleplay.
The reason for "less violence" on Gunsmoke was the fault of the wooses at CBS Standards and Practices, not the producers.
BTW, I never wrote for Festus' goofy relatives, nor Thad.
