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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is/was your favorite television western show or series? Mine is Lonesome Dove.
Elessar Zappa
(14,213 posts)Love the book too!
debm55
(25,909 posts)XanaDUer2
(11,041 posts)Love it
debm55
(25,909 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,984 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)justaprogressive
(2,290 posts)Still a great pity they bypassed Bruce Lee in favor of Carradine!
debm55
(25,909 posts)reason?
justaprogressive
(2,290 posts)Kato in "The Green Hornet" (often masked on film),
he still was not well known...so the studio opted for a "name"..
debm55
(25,909 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 13, 2024, 12:43 PM - Edit history (1)
malthaussen
(17,272 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
(2,412 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
(1,588 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)OLDMDDEM
(1,588 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,438 posts)It occurs to me that this could also be an answer to your thread about favorite detective shows.
debm55
(25,909 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 12, 2024, 09:31 PM - Edit history (1)
OldBaldy1701E
(5,285 posts)And my favorite show villain? Why, you can spot him sneaking around the DU on occasion!
Easterncedar
(2,412 posts)AllaN01Bear
(19,356 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,197 posts)My 13-year-old self had a biiiiiig crush on the star, Christopher Jones.
debm55
(25,909 posts)nevergiveup
(4,782 posts)The only gun I own in real life is my childhood Red Ryder BB gun.
debm55
(25,909 posts)nevergiveup
(4,782 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
(2,863 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)Lochloosa
(16,111 posts)Easterncedar
(2,412 posts)Barbara Stanwyck was such a class act. I tried to watch it again recently .
gay texan
(2,513 posts)Artie was awesome!!!!
debm55
(25,909 posts)rsdsharp
(9,292 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
(25,909 posts)cloudbase
(5,542 posts)The relationships between Matt, Kitty, Festus, and Doc were well written and marvelously acted.
debm55
(25,909 posts)chicoescuela
(1,052 posts)Chester or Festus?
Probably Kitty
debm55
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LoisB
(7,303 posts)arkielib
(150 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
(25,909 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,426 posts)CanonRay
(14,223 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)hatrack
(59,643 posts)Robert Duvall, Greta Scacchi, Thomas Haden-Church, from about . . . 2009 or 2010.
FuzzyRabbit
(1,977 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
(25,909 posts)AltairIV
(425 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
(25,909 posts)rurallib
(62,558 posts)not much gunplay.
debm55
(25,909 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)Different Drummer
(7,725 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
(25,909 posts)Different Drummer
(7,725 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
(25,909 posts)thucythucy
(8,189 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)IcyPeas
(22,013 posts)debm55
(25,909 posts)brush
(54,212 posts)Easterncedar
(2,412 posts)James Garner, great in everything
brush
(54,212 posts)marble falls
(58,335 posts)... Samurai movies are westerns - Magnificent Seven, the Outrage - started out samurai movies by the same director.
debm55
(25,909 posts)Chamberlin was eye candy.
marble falls
(58,335 posts)... I thought the whole series was good, well written, cast, and acted. I can't wait to binge watch it sometime.
GreenWave
(7,047 posts)What was wrong with me?
debm55
(25,909 posts)SARose
(310 posts)The Roy Rogers Show
Annie Oakley - first grade lunch box
Sky King
Yes, I am a child of the 50s.😉
debm55
(25,909 posts)Easterncedar
(2,412 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
(25,909 posts)VGNonly
(7,548 posts)James Michener wrote epics!
303squadron
(575 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
(25,909 posts)Codifer
(553 posts)Sort of an 1840s James Bond in antebellum. New Orleans and with a prototype Tonto. Good gambler and dressed to the nines.
debm55
(25,909 posts)vanlassie
(5,720 posts)Lonesome Dove. ❤️
debm55
(25,909 posts)Not Heidi
(1,381 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
(25,909 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,536 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
(25,909 posts)malthaussen
(17,272 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
(25,909 posts)malthaussen
(17,272 posts)And "F Troop," for that matter. Hey, it was the sixties, every other show was a Western.
-- Ma;