TELEVISION WESTERNS
There were over 145 made
for TV westerns broadcasted from the 1940's
to the current 1990's. Some lasted a few episodes while others became
traditions! Here is a brief run down of just a few.
If you know of "personal" web sites that dwell on these,
don't let your reins slack
...giddyup and send them on to me. Sorry if the sites listed aren't any good
when you try them. I have no time to update lists I have on
my 200+ pages, unless you find a good substitute, and send me that info.
Thanks Pards!
Also:
There are many westerns that were on TV and I have listed
only those I recall (made an impression on my memory)
before spending the last half of the 1960's "working" for Uncle Sam!
For a complete look at an Old West Series or film you loved, go to
My Links to The Internet Movie Data Base
and search out film, actors or characters of your favorite westerns!!
Other pages on this subject: (Westerns in media)
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MUST READ!
My Links to More Fan pages
need more links!(This page may not have those listed below!)
My Links to The Internet Movie Data Base
This is an easier link to the data listed on all the western TV shows.
My Links to The Films and stars
This is not a complete list, ONLY those films I LIKE!
My Links to The Radio Shows
Need more info here too!
Movies on the Internet!
One LAST WORD! I've listed them as per the year they came out.
I think that's called numerical! Sorry if it causes yew any grief!
1950's WESTERNS
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Hopalong Cassidy
(June 24, 1949 to December 23, 1951)*
William Boyd with Topper
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The Lone Ranger (September 15, 1949 to September 27, 1957)*
Clayton Moore with Silver
Jay Silverheels with Scout
- Gene Autry (July 23, 1950 to December 24, 1955)
With Champion the horse
Sidekicks:
Pat Buttram as Pat
Chill Wills as Himself
Fuzzy Knight as Sagebrush
- The Cisco Kid (from 1950 to 1956 all film in color)
Duncan Renaldo with Diablo
Leo Carrillo with Loco
- Wild Bill Hickok (from 1951 to 1958)*
Guy Madison with Buckshot
Andy Devine with Joker
- Kit Carson (from 1951 to 1955)
Bill Williams
Don Diamond
- The Range Rider (from 1952 to 1954)
Jock Mahoney
Dick Jones
-
Roy Rogers
(from 1951 to June 23, 1957)
Leonard Franklin Slye (born in Duck Run, Ohio) with Trigger
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Death Valley Days (from 1952 to 1975!)
Stanley "Old Ranger" Andrews, host
Ronald Reagan, host
- Stories of the Century (1954)
Jim Davis as Matt Clark
- Annie Oakley (April 1953 to December 1956)
Gail Davis with her horse Target
Jimmy "Tagg" Hawkins on his horse Pixie
-
Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
(September 6, 1955 to September 26, 1961)
Hugh O'Brian
-
Gunsmoke(AKA Marshal Dillon)
(September 10, 1955 to 1975!!)
James Arness as
Matt with his horse Buck!
See other Great Gunsmoke sites with
trivia and much more!
- Cheyenne
(September 20, 1955 to September 13, 1963)
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker
- Sugarfoot (1950's)
Will Hutchins
- Bronco (from 1959 to 1961)
Ty Hardin (Orson Whipple Hungerford II)
- Tales of Wells Fargo (March 18, 1957 to Sept. 8, 1962)
Dale Robertson as Jim Hardie rode Jubilee (and Leo Jr.)
Jack Ging as Beau McCloud
William Demarest as Jeb Gaine
-
Have Gun Will Travel
(September 14, 1957 to September 23, 1963)
Richard Boone as Paladin
- Wagon Train (September 18, 1957 to September 1, 1965)
Ward Bond as Malor Adams, wagonmaster
Robert Horton
as Flint McCullough, wagontrain scout
John McIntire (Later)
Robert Fuller as Cooper Smith (1963-1965)
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Maverick (September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962)
James Garner (1957-1960)
Jack Kelly (1957-1962)
Roger Moore (1960-1961)
Robert Colbert (1961)
More Maverick!
Bret Maverick
1981 crew
- The Restless Gun (September 23, 1957 to September 14, 1959)
John Payne as Vint Bonner
- Trackdown (October 4, 1957 to September 23, 1959)
Robert Culp
- Tombstone Territory
(Oct. 16, 1957 - Sept. 17, 1958; Mar 13, 1959 - Oct. 9, 1959).
Pat Conway -- Sheriff Clay Hollister
Richard Eastham -- Harris Claibourne (editor of the Tombstone [Ariz.
Terr.] Epitaph.
(Theme song was "Whistle me up a memory...")
- Colt .45 (October 18, 1957 - September 27, 1960)
Wade Preston as Christopher Colt
Donald Wade as Sam Colt Jr.
- Wanted Dead or Alive (September 6, 1958 to March 29, 1961)
Steve McQueen as Josh Randal
- The Texan (September 29, 1958 to September 12, 1960)
Rory Calhoun rode Domino
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The Rifleman (September 30, 1958 to July 1, 1963)
Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain
- Lawman (October 5, 1958 to October 2, 1962)
John Russell
1960's WESTERNS
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Rawhide (January 9, 1959 to January 4, 1966)
Eric Fleming as Gil Favor
Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates
Sheb Wooley as Pete Nolan the scout
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Bonanza (September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973)
Loren Greene as pah
Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright
Dan Blocker as Hoss
Michael Landon as Little Joe
David Canary as Candy
- The Deputy (September 12, 1959 to September 16, 1961)
Allen Case
Henry Fonda
- Laramie (September 15, 1959 to September 16, 1963)
John Smith
Robert Fuller as Jess Harper
Unofficial Robert Fuller Website
- Law of the Plainsman (October 1, 1959 to September 24, 1962)
Michael Ansara (star of another TV show Broken Arrow)
- The Rebel (October 4, 1959 to September 12, 1962)
Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma
- Bat Masterson ( October 8, 1959 to September 21, 1961)
Gene Barry
- The Gunslinger(Feb. 9, 1961 to Sept. 14, 1961)
Tony Young as Cord
Preston Foster as Capt. Zachary Wingate
Charles D. Gray as Pico McGuire
John Picard as Sgt. Major Murdock
Dee Pollock as Billy Urchin
Midge Ware as Amby Hollister
- The Westerner (September 30, 1960 to December 30, 1960)
Brian Keith
(RIP ol'pard, we'll miss yew! June 25, 1997).
- The Virginian (1962-1970) (1970: The Men From Shiloh)
James Drury -- Virginian (foreman)
Doug McClure --
Trampas (assistant foreman)
Lee J. Cobb (1962-66) -- Judge Henry Garth (first owner of Shiloh Ranch)
Clu Gulagher (1964-68) -- Deputy Ryker
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Big Valley (1965-1969)
Barbara Stanwyck -- Victoria Barkley
Richard Long -- Jarrod (#1 son -- level headed lawyer)
Peter Breck -- Nick (#2 son -- hot headed rancher)
Lee Majors -- Heath (illegitimate son of Tom Barkley and a woman from
Stockton: Tom had lied to Victoria that the woman was indian)
Linda Evans -- Audra (daughter)
Napoleon Whiting -- Silas (Servant)
- The Dakotas (1963)
Larry Ward as Marshall Frank Ragan
Jack Elam as Deputy J.D. Smith
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Daniel Boone (165 episodes from 1964-1970)
Fess Parker as Boone
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Branded
(January 1965 - September 4, 1966)
Chuck Connors as Jason McCord
- The Loner (18 September 1965 to 1966)
Lloyd Bridges as William Colton
- Laredo (56 episodes from 1965-1967 NBC?)
Neville Brand as Ranger Reese Bennett
Peter Brown as Ranger Chad Cooper
William Smith as Ranger Joe Riley
Robert Wolders as Ranger Erik Hunter
Philip Carey as Captain Edward Parmalee
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Wild, WIld West (104 episodes & 2 sequels, 1965-1969, CBS)
Robert Conrad as Jim West
Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon
Michael Dunn as Dr. Miguelito Loveless
Richard Kiel as Voltaire, Loveless' muscular and LARGE!! henchman
Victor Buono as Count Manzeppi
reruns daily on WTBS from Atlanta. The 2 sequel movies Wild, Wild
West Revisited & More Wild, Wild West are available on video.
- Hondo (1967 - ?)
Ralph Taeger as Hondo Lane
- High Chaparral (1967-1971)
Leif Erickson as John Cannon
1970's WESTERNS
- Nichols (24 episodes, 1971-1972, NBC)
James Garner
Margot Kidder as Ruth
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Bearcats! (13 episodes & 2 hour pilot, 1971, CBS)
Rod Taylor & Dennis Cole & Their nifty Automobile
The pilot is available on video and entitled Powderkeg.
-
Alias Smith and Jones - (1971 to 1973)
Peter Duell played Hannibal Hayes
(After Pete Duel died Roger Davis who was the announcer for the show
replaced Pete as Hannibal Hayes)
Murphy was Jed "Kid" Curry alias Thaddeus Jones.
1980's WESTERNS
- Wildside (6 episodes, 1985, ABC)
Howard E. Rollins Jr. as Bannister Sparks
William Smith as Brodie Hollister
J. Eddie Peck as Sutton Hollister
John D'Aquino as Varges de la Cosa
Terry Funk as Prometheus Jones
Meg Ryan as Cally Oaks
1990's WESTERNS
-
The Young Riders
(September 20, 1989 - July 23, 1992)
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The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
(August 8, 1993 - May 20, 1994)
(with his faithful horse Comet)
Bruce Campbell with Copper
(yes, like a true "actor" he has a "real" name too!).
More
images of Brisco
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Dr Quinn Medicine Woman (Feb 1993 - ?)
For more Links to Dr. Quinn
look up "QuinnLinx."
-
Lazarus Man (1995-6)
Robert Urich
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Lonesome Dove, The Outlaw Years (September 25, 1995 - ?)
Scott Bairstow as Newt Call
Eric McCormack as Col. Francis Clay Mosby
Kelly Rowan as Mattie Shaw
-
Magnificent Seven (Jan 3 - Mar 21, 1998 - 9 episodes)
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NOT LISTED? Try looking here first!
Western Movies Made for TV:
Evil Roy Slade (1970) John Astin
NOTE: The "made for TV movies" were an experiment...they
weren't considered "real" movies...in many cases the tapes were erased
and used for the news a week later...we only have a copy today, of some
of these early ones, because the ADVERTISING AGENCIES amd the SPONSORS
received tape copies as a result of contract requirements...
John A. Dalton (Research Dept.)
To find old movies try
ccvideo! at www.ccvideo.com
MORE sites to explore:
Westerns of the Fifties
Cimarron Strip
Cowboy Heroes
(Much of my research comes from the first book created by Neil Summers
and generous friends of the site who have sent me great information.
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