What is your all-time favorite tv-western series

[WI_DEM]

Any western fans out there?

[BurtWorm]

1. Billy Bang-Bang and his Bang-Bang Brother Butch

Actually, Lariat Sam or Quickdraw McGraw.

[mouse7]

2. Deadwood (new HBO series)

It's the only Western series I've ever liked.

[Jane Austin]

3. The Wild Wild West

By MILES!

[BurtWorm]

5. Ooh! Good one!

That is a Western I watched more than once. I actually did kind of like Gunsmoke too, though, now that I think of it. I was kind of young when it was on and I found a lot of it boring, but some was beautiful. Love the sound of horse hooves racing across the prairie.

[LDS Jock]

21. I vote Wild Wild West too

I've seen reruns of it on TNT. Robert Conrad, I think that is his name, in those oh-so-tight pants. I didn't even pay attention to the storylines. Too busy looking at him. Is it getting hot in here?

[Lefty48197]

26. Wild Wild West = best western ever

I couldn't bring myself to go watch Will Smith on the big screen.

[Rooktoven]

31. I fifth it.

is it winning now? ;-)

[number6]

43. Wild Wild West

;)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

48. That's the one.

I take back my vote for Bonanza

[Robroy]

4. Gunsmoke AND Bonanza

Westerns ruled TV in my youth, literally all of the above were great, along, of course, with Kirk, Spock, Scotty, Doc and crew of Star Trek.

[PragMantisT]

6. Wanted, Dead or Alive

Josh Randall could kick Rowdy Yates ass.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. When I was a kid, I just loved Wagon Train, but

now that I'm grown up, I can appreciate the humor in Maverick.

[jus_the_facts]

8. Nick....Heath...Jarrod....there's a fire in the barn!!!

....Big Valley referrence in the movie AIRPLANE!! :D


Used to love watchin' Big Valley...Bonanza and Gunsmoke....had my picture taken once...as I sat on the post o'the High Chapparell sign in Old Tuscon, Arizona as a matter o'fact!! :hi:

[lpbk2713]

9. Have Gun, Will Travel and Gunsmoke ................... n/t.

[GOPisEvil]

10. The Adventures of Brisoe County, Jr.

Alias Smith and Jones was good, too.

[Salviati]

11. I second Brisco County Jr.

[Snow]

16. I third Briscoe - in the comedy/western category - and how about

that Dixie?
For straight westerns, Richard Boone as Paladin was about the best.
and when I was very young, in my opinion nothing could top ol' Hopalong Cassidy (only good guy to wear a black hat).

[supernova]

17. Briscoe County was wonderful!

I had forgotten about him. ;-)

Though, when I was little "Alias Smith and Jones" was really hot. I loved that show. :bounce:

[Parrcrow]

12. Evil Roy Slade

or F Troop

[Bridget Burke]

13. Maverick is my favorite from the list...

Because humor was featured in many episodes.

But I also loved Brisco County, Jr.



Where are the DVD's?

[dae]

14. From my days as a youngster, The Lone Ranger, Hi Ho Silver Awaaay!

[TahitiNut]

47. Where's Butch Cavendish when we need 'im?

:evilgrin:

[dae]

51. What cho talkin bout Kemosabi? :-)

BTW, Ilike Butch too. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Does Kung Fu count?

Yippeeyi Grasshopper!

[Zolok]

18. I voted "other"

I have several faves:
"Custer" starring Wayne Maunder and Slim Pickens...fabulous disaster of a tv western circa 1968.
Wayne Maunder stars as Colonel Custer now reconfigured as a long haired counter insurgency expert fighting the indians in the Dakota Territories.
It is so earnest and weird...like Star Trek on horseback sans the wit and intelligence.

"The Loner", Lloyd Bridges' stars in a western produced by Rod Serling!
Interesting post Twilight Zone one season wonder from Rod....

"The Life and Legend of Jesse James" starring Christopher Jones as the famous outlaw.
Last only a season...tried to see Jesse's side of the story.
:)
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[BrotherBuzz]

19. Sky King

[trof]

20. The Flying Crown Ranch

The Songbird was his plane.
Penny and Skipper(?) were his...what?...neice & nephew?

[BrotherBuzz]

24. Niece and nephew...and Skipper's name was Clipper

boy, his role sure was eclipsed by that wonderful Penny.

Out of the greater blue of the western sky....comes Sky King...

Man, a two edit speilling day! Hey trof, my deceased neighbor buddy was a pilot between jobs when he landed the gig of flying one of the two C- 54's (?) around on a one day ferry license from the FAA to film stock footage for the series and deliver the planes to the studio. They landed the planes in Apple Valley, California, where one got chopped up for studio shots, the other idled on the tarmac for outside ones.

[TahitiNut]

25. ... and The Flying Crown Ranch

:shrug:

Penny spent a lot of time in "bondage." :evilgrin:

[trof]

29. Think he flew a Twin Beech

but not sure

[BrotherBuzz]

32. We're both wrong -it was a Cessna T-50

The second Songbird was a Cessna, too. Cessna 310

[MrSlayer]

22. Deadwood.

Way better than those hokey TV shows.

[LeftofU]

23. I'll second that....

[TahitiNut]

27. Where's the Lone Ranger?

Where's Roy Rogers? Doesn't anyone remember when TV was B&W? (sheesh) :eyes:

[Snow]

44. Check upstairs....

I put my vote in for ol' Hoppy already....doesn't anybody remember when we didn't have TV (the lone ranger was on the radio!)likewise - :eyes:

[TahitiNut]

46. Well, the Lone Ranger was both on the radio and TV ...

... except on TV they gave Tonto his own horse. :evilgrin: ('tis true.) Of course I remember the days before TV ... radio was more colorful.


And I can't list o'l Bill Boyd in a 'favorite' thread because he had a child by a distant relative of mine and then abandoned her and went to Hollywood. (Lot's of my relatives/ancestors had "round heels.")

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. Austin Stories

[Mr. McD]

30. Have Gun will Travel

Great show.

[Paladin]

33. As My User Name Indicates......

....I am a huge fan of "Have Gun Will Travel." I've seen a few episodes of it in recent years, and they really hold up well after all these years.

That being said, I think that "Deadwood" is the most compulsively watchable show on TV today. A solid A-Plus as to writing, directing, acting, and everything else. Check it out.

[marigold20]

36. Yeah - my favorite too.

I haven't seen this show for ages.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

49. That was an excellent one.

[Teddy_Salad]

34. I cannot believe.....

.....that I'm the only one to have voted for Rawhide, as of now.

I just can't believe it! :evilfrown:

[proud patriot]

35. Totally, Maverick

James Garner Rocks

[Rowdyboy]

37. Branded .........starring a very young Chuck Conners....

Only lasted two to three seasons in the mid-sixties but I loved the series and especially the theme song and opening scene when his madals are ripped from his uniform aand his fellow troops turn their backs on him dureing his "march of shame"...

[marigold20]

39. "scorned as the one who ran"

I watched that one too!

[mitchum]

40. Loved it also...

did you ever notice all of the subervise stuff going on? Every other episode, Connors would be stripped to the waist in preparation for a horsewhipping. Women would fall for him and he would not be able to reciprocate. And I'm not even gonna go into that broken sword in the scabbard...
It's as is Tennessee Williams was on the writing staff. A great show.

[Rowdyboy]

42. Oh, yes...It also has a liberal slant

ULysses Grant was portrayed as a hero, left-wing radical; the bad guys treated Indians like animals, Conners fought for them.

we also had some junior high knockoffs of the theme song:

"Stranded! Stranded on the toilet bowl!
What will you do when you're stranded,
and you don't have a roll!

You know you're a man, you must do what you can
You're a man--wipe with your hand!"

[mitchum]

38. "Have Gun, Will Travel"...

Richard Boone as Paladin. The black clad Shelley reading gunman was a formative influence.

second vote goes to "The Rifleman"

[Mr.Green93]

41. Sugarfoot

[Cassandra]

45. Laredo and Wildside

I'm a major William Smith fan; he was a GOOD-looking man (not bad in his 70s, either).

[lucidmadman]

50. TRACKDOWN w/ Robert Culp

On about the same time as WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE w/ McQueen.

[Champ]

52. Deadwood

Even though I never seen it(desperately wants too), don't like westerns but from what I've heard about it and what I've seen from the ads has made it my favorite. :D