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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is/was your favorite television western show or series? Mine is Lonesome Dove.
Elessar Zappa
(14,099 posts)Love the book too!
debm55
(25,606 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,778 posts)Love it
debm55
(25,606 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,890 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)justaprogressive
(2,246 posts)Still a great pity they bypassed Bruce Lee in favor of Carradine!
debm55
(25,606 posts)reason?
justaprogressive
(2,246 posts)Kato in "The Green Hornet" (often masked on film),
he still was not well known...so the studio opted for a "name"..
debm55
(25,606 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 13, 2024, 12:43 PM - Edit history (1)
malthaussen
(17,219 posts)I'm sure racism had no part in the decision. Although that movie they made about Bruce Lee implies that the networks thought it was okay to have an Asian as a sidekick, but not as the lead.
The movie also implies that the show was Lee's brainchild, and he expected the lead role.
-- Mal
Easterncedar
(2,342 posts)When I was a college stoner. It was a gently fun show, a bit hokey. I dont think they could do the ahem cross-cultural casting today.
OLDMDDEM
(1,577 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,577 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,338 posts)It occurs to me that this could also be an answer to your thread about favorite detective shows.
debm55
(25,606 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 12, 2024, 09:31 PM - Edit history (1)
OldBaldy1701E
(5,177 posts)And my favorite show villain? Why, you can spot him sneaking around the DU on occasion!
Easterncedar
(2,342 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,569 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,073 posts)My 13-year-old self had a biiiiiig crush on the star, Christopher Jones.
debm55
(25,606 posts)nevergiveup
(4,768 posts)The only gun I own in real life is my childhood Red Ryder BB gun.
debm55
(25,606 posts)nevergiveup
(4,768 posts)but I am not 100% sure of that and I am 79 and don't shoot straight so if anyone breaks into my place I will probably just surrender.
JoseBalow
(2,530 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)Lochloosa
(16,076 posts)Easterncedar
(2,342 posts)Barbara Stanwyck was such a class act. I tried to watch it again recently .
gay texan
(2,480 posts)Artie was awesome!!!!
debm55
(25,606 posts)rsdsharp
(9,216 posts)It featured a LeMat revolver nine shots (the one in the show only had six), and a shotgun shell from a second barrel. Cool, but at 4.1 pounds Ringo would have been shooting the slowest gun in the west.
debm55
(25,606 posts)cloudbase
(5,525 posts)The relationships between Matt, Kitty, Festus, and Doc were well written and marvelously acted.
debm55
(25,606 posts)chicoescuela
(1,030 posts)Chester or Festus?
Probably Kitty
debm55
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LoisB
(7,243 posts)arkielib
(124 posts)I loved Clint Eastwood then. Now, not at all. I also watched Bonanza, Gunsmoke and The Big Valley. I'm not a big fan of westerns now though.
debm55
(25,606 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,405 posts)CanonRay
(14,123 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)hatrack
(59,594 posts)Robert Duvall, Greta Scacchi, Thomas Haden-Church, from about . . . 2009 or 2010.
FuzzyRabbit
(1,970 posts)B movie westerns. They made 60 Hoppies starting in 1935, before the TV series. Most were pretty good. They were better than the 1/2 hour TV Hoppies in my opinion. The earliest had much bigger budgets than other B-westerns, so had better production and scripts.
debm55
(25,606 posts)AltairIV
(400 posts)The Big Valley
The Wild, Wild West
and The Virginian which in it's final season became the Men from Shiloh with a terrific opening credits score by the great Ennio Morricone.
debm55
(25,606 posts)rurallib
(62,465 posts)not much gunplay.
debm55
(25,606 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)Different Drummer
(7,656 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 12, 2024, 09:38 PM - Edit history (1)
Maverick (James Garner episodes)
The Wild, Wild West
The Big Valley
Laredo (can't seem to find it on TV anymore).
ETA: The High Chapparal
debm55
(25,606 posts)Different Drummer
(7,656 posts)IMDB information about it at the link.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058819/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_7_nm_1_q_Laredo
debm55
(25,606 posts)thucythucy
(8,102 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)IcyPeas
(21,918 posts)debm55
(25,606 posts)brush
(53,925 posts)Easterncedar
(2,342 posts)James Garner, great in everything
brush
(53,925 posts)marble falls
(57,395 posts)... Samurai movies are westerns - Magnificent Seven, the Outrage - started out samurai movies by the same director.
debm55
(25,606 posts)Chamberlin was eye candy.
marble falls
(57,395 posts)... I thought the whole series was good, well written, cast, and acted. I can't wait to binge watch it sometime.
GreenWave
(6,779 posts)What was wrong with me?
debm55
(25,606 posts)SARose
(264 posts)The Roy Rogers Show
Annie Oakley - first grade lunch box
Sky King
Yes, I am a child of the 50s.😉
debm55
(25,606 posts)Easterncedar
(2,342 posts)It had an interesting cast. The Puerto Rican actor, Henry Darrow, who played Manolito, stole the show, which seemed groundbreaking at the time.
debm55
(25,606 posts)VGNonly
(7,517 posts)James Michener wrote epics!
303squadron
(548 posts)Like the Lincoln Lawyer, Elfego Baca broke the mold in that he was Hispanic and the good guy. It was a Disney tv show!
debm55
(25,606 posts)Codifer
(548 posts)Sort of an 1840s James Bond in antebellum. New Orleans and with a prototype Tonto. Good gambler and dressed to the nines.
debm55
(25,606 posts)vanlassie
(5,693 posts)Lonesome Dove. ❤️
debm55
(25,606 posts)Not Heidi
(1,324 posts)Great cast: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Linda Hunt,* Brian Dennehy
If you haven't seen it, find it (or wait for it) streaming. It's a really, really good movie.
* Linda Hunt is the only person to win an Oscar in a role portraying a member of the opposite sex, in The Year of Living Dangerously. She's wonderful.
debm55
(25,606 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,481 posts)My Pappy always said, "A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies but one." A thousand to one is pretty good odds.
debm55
(25,606 posts)malthaussen
(17,219 posts)So I guess that's my favorite. Unless you count "Here Come the Brides," because I had the hots for Bridget Hanley.
I suppose "Wild, Wild, West" qualifies, I mean it has "West" in the name and all, but I've never really thought of it as a Western.
-- Mal
debm55
(25,606 posts)malthaussen
(17,219 posts)And "F Troop," for that matter. Hey, it was the sixties, every other show was a Western.
-- Ma;