TV's Greatest Westerns - (Slide Show)

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I'll take The Wild, Wild West and of more recent note, Deadwood was a real hoot.

That British actor Ian McShane is one dirty blankety blank. (LOL)

Slide show here...

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  • Boo! Hiss! What a bad list....No Rifleman or Maverick or Bonanza?

    "Natchez to New Orleans
    Livin on jacks and queens
    Maverick is a legend of the west."


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    • Maverick is one of my all time favorite TV themes.

      Yeah, pretty bad list Kurt. Thank goodness at least Big Valley was on it or I would have screamed.

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      Another great theme song.
  • I'm with Kurt - Where does "McCloud" qualify as a western?

    That was just a cop show with a cowboy hat...

    That was a takeoff of a Clint Eastwood movie...(Coogan's Bluff)
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    • And as much as I loved Firefly, a western?

      WTF?

      Their definitions leave me speechless.
    • More specifically...A cop show in New York. :rolleyes:

      But they do have Gunsmoke...Maybe they just have a Dennis Weaver fettish, since he was in both?
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  • I watched The Rifleman with the kid about a month ago and now she won't stop calling me paw.

    TL
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    • Call her "Mark"... LOL

      Here's my own list of the Top 10 Westerns...In no particular order

      Gunsmoke
      Rawhide
      Bonanza
      Wagon Train
      Have Gun Will Travel
      Maverick
      Rifleman
      Branded
      Wanted Dead or Alive

      ...and F Troop...Where's Larry Storch when you need him?

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  • Btw: Does anyone remember a quirky TV western (canceled after one season) called "Nichols"?
    An offbeat, black comedy Western with one of the strangest series finales ever...they kill off the star of the show...then they kill the show!

    (and "F Troop" was great - like "Blazing Saddles" for TV - but with less gas...)

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    James Garner had more than one failed western...they tried to remake Maverick in the 80's (funny scene)

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  • remember these;

    Johnny Yuma

    Yancey Derringer

    Lone Ranger
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  • Yeah - The Lone Ranger...and "Tonto" -

    I did not realize it until later that 'tonto' means 'fool' in spanish...:rolleyes: (did Jay Silverheels know that?)
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    • Well, Tonto, not be outdone, was actually calling The Lone Ranger 'Qui no sabe'..

      So while the Ranger was calling Tonto "fool", Tonto was calling the Ranger "clueless".

      Tonto got even years later when he opened a casino, and lent the old broke Ranger money at usury type rates...lol


      Oh the delicate balance of the old west..
  • Couple of my early favorite theme songs..



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    Lol on F-Troop Kurt...I used to love that show...

    with the Hekawies.... where the hek-a-we?...though I heard that joke a little more R rated years later.
  • While we are on the subject of great westerns...I had thought many times over the years, but maybe it's time to give it a resurgence -

    I was watching PBS the other night, and they did a show on Custer - I have always had a particular interest in this point in American history, wrote my papers on the manifest destiny and the western legends in history class way back when, and the "legend" of Custer fits in prominently. There was not anywhere near as much to go on then, as there is now...with new tracking techniques, and fire that made the site easier to scope...

    I wonder why no one has remade a Custer movie? He figured prominently in the history of the west - he was obsessively driven, very charismatic, a showman, and handsome to boot - it could be quite an epic...I wonder why nobody has wanted to do an honest portrayal.

    His story has been told from the side of "They Died With Their Boots On", and "Little Big Man"...but no one has ever really delved into the very complex nature of this man who played such a pivotal role in the making of our West -

    Happening not so soon after the Civil War..."Custer's Last Stand" was what one could consider the "9-11" of the manifest destiny...and the expansion of the west. The painting "Custer's Last Stand" was commissioned by Budweiser, and hung prominently in many saloons across America.

    Any thoughts, Western buffs?
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  • i think very funny
  • Mccloud is NOT a western! It could be said that there are 3-5 parts to a western! Mccloud had ONE!!!!!!!!!! Another ALSO had ONE, albeit a different one, and was called a type of western! I bet you could NEVER guess what it was called! Come ON! I bet you would NEVER guess!!!!!! STAR TREK! YEP, I said STAR TREK! AND Star trek is EVERY BIT as much a western as FIREFLY! HECK, the INTERNET has been likened to the wild west!

    I LIKED the wild west(tv show)! I would say IT qualified on ALL of the basic 3, and perhaps all 5! Bonanza did ALSO!

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  • LoL! It's supposed to mean 'trusty scout' - but I like your definition better!

    They come off more like Fred and Lamont Sanford! "Hey, Fool! - Yeah, Clueless?"

    In that classic joke, the Lone Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by a horde of hostile Indian warriors... The Lone Ranger says to Tonto "what do we do now, Tonto?,"

    to which Tonto replies, "what you mean 'we,' kemosabe?"
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