early westerns on TV
 

Ballad of Paladin Have Gun Will Travel

Johnny Yuma - the Rebel

Gunsmoke

Bonanza

Rawhide

Maverick

The Lone Ranger

The Rifleman

Zorro


what did I forget?
seems like everything when I was a kid was a cowboy show.

Branded
Death Valley Days
The Wild Wild West
and my favorite, F Troop.:D

wow, I though i had nailed all of them :rolleyes:

good call on all 4

Yeah but in reality Miss Kitty was a pox ridden whore and most gunslingers were undisciplined adolecents. Kinda takes the glamour off does it not?

All that raging rhetoric in those cowboy shows :D

Heck my dad likes the old cowboy songs, in the high note - alto soprano is it?

OdelayEEEEEE, odelayEEE, OOOOO.

Lay down, little doggies.....

Heck I do too, in moderation.

Ever see the really old westerns? They must not have had enough frames per second, so a galloping horse's legs looked blurish, very amusing, pilgrim.

Pete

lol, YOU ARE OM A ROLL TODAY.

you kinda took the n out of nostalgia.

That's right!

The Roy Rogers Show :D

Steve McQueen - Wanted Dead or Alive
Walter Brennan - The Guns of Will Sonnet
Dale Robertson - Iron Horse
LLoyd Bridges - Loner
Shenandoa
The Big Valley
The Virginian
Hopalong Cassady
Laredo
Henry Fonda - The Deputy
Fess Parker - Daniel Boone

The Western was King.

Regards,

D-Ray

Damn, you are good at this!

Walter Brennan's Character was an old gunslinger who has two sons who were gunslingers. His catch-line whenever he was talking about the type of whuppin they would put on someone was "No brag, just fact."

Regards,

D-Ray

I can see the actor who played the lead in The Virginia, but CRS has kicked in as far as his name goes.

I still think Hollywood did a dis-service in glorifying the wild west (and I think that I probably read every novel Louis L'Amore wrote.)

I don't think Matt's gonna take too kindly to what you've said about his squezze.

And while those old white hat cowboy shows were as fake as a three dollar bill (ever see a horse turd on the streets of Dodge), they were a lesson in morality. The hero was always slow to anger, wise beyond his years, and when forced to go to the gun, and you knew he would, good always triumphed over evil.

Compare that with today's culture of rap music and the absolute garbage that comes from Hollywood.

I'll take the grim determination of a Gary Cooper over a Rambo with an M60 any day.

Chas

I remember that when I was growing up, even pro rassling was a morality play. Clearly defined good guys and bad guys, and the cheaters never prospered. I took my son to the pro wrestling for his birthday several years ago and even the audience was r-rated. No good guys or bad guys, just a battle of who has the worst case of 'roid rage on that particular day.

Regards,

D-Ray

Don't know if Hollyweird is a reflection of society, or a cause of the discontent. Probably a little of the two.

I've got an idea...let's outlaw teevees!!!

Chas

my new favorite old western-

wagon train with ward bond, robert horton (still alive), used to watch it back in the day, i was 5. first season started 1957, is finally on dvd.

cisco kid.
alias smith and jones

these and others can be seen currently on retro-tv.

iirc, james drury

He did the TV series, just Bing'd it and in the movie it was Joel MacRae.

A whole generation of children over here were not only brought up on the stuff (ABC saturday morning cinema complete with radioactive badge) they believed it was real. To us (for whom the chances of actually going to the USA were about the same as going to the moon) Arizona, Texas, all those kind of places were what America really was. The bad guys ride into town, the good guys take them on. Street warfare in open spaces.

The steam engines were what fascinated me. Were they all fake, or did any Westerns use real early 20th century engines; firing them up and hoping they'd stay in one piece just long enough to get the shot?

jeez, speaking of wagon train, it just came on at noon here in vt, on retro tv, and there is no audio. bummer.

The steam locomotives were about the only things that weren't fake. Several of them still around, and places where you can ride them on the old narrow gauge tracks.

This one comes to mind.

http://www.durangotrain.com/

If you're ever out that way, Mesa Verde is also worth a stop. But if you see a plywood sign on which someone has spray painted "Indian Casino" with an arrow pointing down in the woods, I think I'd just keep going.

We did.

Chas

Always knew that ignert hillbilly stuff was just an act.

Regards,

D-Ray

Check out the photo and video gallery here....

http://tweetsie.com/

I may be ignert, but I ain't stoopid enough to drive down to some Indian Casino in the woods which will most likely resemble the place where Pap got shot!

Chas

Those old steam locomotives must be all over the place.

I know they've got one down in Eureka Springs, wasn't tempted to ride it because I understand they only drive you about a mile down in the sticks, and then back out.

That's another interesting place to visit, they have some incredible old bath houses.

Chas

They have a steam locomotive ride up here in Baldwin Kansas. It was just a quick (actually, quite slow) trip forward and backward for about a mile. It was a thrill for a four or five year old train lubber though.

On trains - I took the trip across the state from KC to StL a few times on Amtrack. At that time a round trip was something like $60. It was a pleasant relaxing way to travel. I would certainly like to see railroad travel make a comeback.

Regards,

D-Ray

There are a couple of trains running here in MD, mostly up through the mountains, fairly long rides.

When we went out to Colorado we took Amtrak Superliner, two very interesting day and a view of the coutryside that you sure don't get from 30,000 feet. Food was great too.

the being rehabbed 'virginia and truckee'-http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rch_type=&aq=f

also, the 'cumbres and toltec'-http://www.cumbrestoltec.com/

That engine #29 a 2-4-0 you don't see many of those. The Cumbres and Toltec looks lik a Baldwin, they typically painted the nose silver/grey.