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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is/was your favorite television western show or series? Mine is Lonesome Dove.
Elessar Zappa
(14,022 posts)Love the book too!
debm55
(25,253 posts)XanaDUer2
(10,708 posts)Love it
debm55
(25,253 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,875 posts)debm55
(25,253 posts)justaprogressive
(2,213 posts)Still a great pity they bypassed Bruce Lee in favor of Carradine!
debm55
(25,253 posts)reason?
justaprogressive
(2,213 posts)Kato in "The Green Hornet" (often masked on film),
he still was not well known...so the studio opted for a "name"..
debm55
(25,253 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 13, 2024, 12:43 PM - Edit history (1)
malthaussen
(17,215 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
(2,309 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
(25,253 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,577 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)It occurs to me that this could also be an answer to your thread about favorite detective shows.
debm55
(25,253 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 12, 2024, 09:31 PM - Edit history (1)
OldBaldy1701E
(5,144 posts)And my favorite show villain? Why, you can spot him sneaking around the DU on occasion!
Easterncedar
(2,309 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,327 posts)debm55
(25,253 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,031 posts)My 13-year-old self had a biiiiiig crush on the star, Christopher Jones.
debm55
(25,253 posts)nevergiveup
(4,763 posts)The only gun I own in real life is my childhood Red Ryder BB gun.
debm55
(25,253 posts)nevergiveup
(4,763 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
(2,418 posts)debm55
(25,253 posts)Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)Easterncedar
(2,309 posts)Barbara Stanwyck was such a class act. I tried to watch it again recently .
gay texan
(2,466 posts)Artie was awesome!!!!
debm55
(25,253 posts)rsdsharp
(9,195 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
(25,253 posts)cloudbase
(5,524 posts)The relationships between Matt, Kitty, Festus, and Doc were well written and marvelously acted.
debm55
(25,253 posts)chicoescuela
(1,027 posts)Chester or Festus?
Probably Kitty
debm55
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LoisB
(7,222 posts)arkielib
(118 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
(25,253 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,396 posts)CanonRay
(14,111 posts)debm55
(25,253 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Robert Duvall, Greta Scacchi, Thomas Haden-Church, from about . . . 2009 or 2010.
FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 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
(25,253 posts)AltairIV
(388 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
(25,253 posts)rurallib
(62,433 posts)not much gunplay.
debm55
(25,253 posts)debm55
(25,253 posts)Different Drummer
(7,630 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
(25,253 posts)Different Drummer
(7,630 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
(25,253 posts)thucythucy
(8,086 posts)debm55
(25,253 posts)IcyPeas
(21,901 posts)debm55
(25,253 posts)brush
(53,815 posts)Easterncedar
(2,309 posts)James Garner, great in everything
brush
(53,815 posts)marble falls
(57,145 posts)... Samurai movies are westerns - Magnificent Seven, the Outrage - started out samurai movies by the same director.
debm55
(25,253 posts)Chamberlin was eye candy.
marble falls
(57,145 posts)... I thought the whole series was good, well written, cast, and acted. I can't wait to binge watch it sometime.
GreenWave
(6,763 posts)What was wrong with me?
debm55
(25,253 posts)SARose
(250 posts)The Roy Rogers Show
Annie Oakley - first grade lunch box
Sky King
Yes, I am a child of the 50s.😉
debm55
(25,253 posts)Easterncedar
(2,309 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
(25,253 posts)VGNonly
(7,504 posts)James Michener wrote epics!
303squadron
(545 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
(25,253 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
(25,253 posts)vanlassie
(5,681 posts)Lonesome Dove. ❤️
debm55
(25,253 posts)Not Heidi
(1,290 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
(25,253 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,456 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
(25,253 posts)malthaussen
(17,215 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
(25,253 posts)malthaussen
(17,215 posts)And "F Troop," for that matter. Hey, it was the sixties, every other show was a Western.
-- Ma;