TV Cowboys from the 50's /60's

[tonyc1]

And another TV series I enjoyed was "The Outlaws". It was about some old gunslingers who were sent into the future by a hundred years. An Australian actor, Rod Taylor, was in the show.

Tony.

[ArtS]

Me too! My wife and I have often said they need to make a movie about Roy and have Clint play him.

Art

If seeing Roy smile didn't make you smile, you had a hard heart, that's for sure. Clint Black (country singer) often reminds me of him.

[jbird]

I have seen every john wayne movie at least twice I am a big time fan of westerns a grew up watching the rifleman and bonanza.

Josh

P.S. reruns of course I am to young for that stuff.

Edited October 31, 2008 by jbird

[Kevin]

This summer, I was at a Best Buy and found a set of DVDs that had 120 episodes of old shows and it only cost $20. Wide Country, Stoney Burke, Judge Roy Bean, lots of Cisco, lots of Roy Rogers,US Marshal, Sgt. Preston. I think one was called True Tales of the Old West and starred the guy that played the patriarch on Dallas (Gary Davis?). Almost forgot Sky King, Buffalo Bill Jr., Sugarfoot and more I can't recall right now.

Kevin

[UKRay]

Griowing up in the UK meant we didn't see all the good stuff you guys remember, but we did get Rawhide and Waggon train - Gil Favor and Rowdy Yates were childhood heros. Bonanza with the Cartwright family was also on the box over here and I never missed a John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movie.

I can't honestly say I even knew of Gene Autry until much later but the Lone Ranger and Tonto featured in a lot of our games... We also had Champion the Wonder Horse - does anyone remember him?

Roy Rogers and Dale? was on briefly but I didn't really get hooked. More recently, Little House on the Prarie and the Waltons (I can't help liking those old Waltons!) provided the UK's afternoon TV watchers with a healthy dose of period western TV and a sometimes rather sickly-sweet feel-good factor. I assume you all had those programmes first? Did any of them make their way 'down under'?

[The Major]

Great video. I am a little saddened that with all the movies and tv shows shown, one of my favorites wasn't mentioned. He forgot Yul Brynner and the Magnigicant Seven. But he had the Lone Ranger so it all makes up for it. Hi-Yo Silver.

[barra]

I don't remember some of the shows mentioned being shown in Australia when i was a kid. I'm not saying they were not televised but some were before my time. I do remember fondly Rin Tin Tin. Who remembers Fury with Peter graves and the short lived series he followed with that was filmed in Australia, Whiplash. I also have a lot of old Bonanza episodes on DVD, though some have a different theme tune which is weird.

When I am in the US, I stay at a town called Newhall. This is where a lot of these old shows were filmed and was the home of William S Hart. He was one of the early Movie cowboys and was one of Whyatt Earp's pall bearers. The people I stay with used to live one street away from Gene Autry's Melody ranch and the kids would pat and feed Champion carrots on the way to school. I get lot's of stories about the golden age of western movies/TV shows.

http://www.melodyranchstudio.com/

Barra

[tonyc1]

Griowing up in the UK meant we didn't see all the good stuff you guys remember, but we did get Rawhide and Waggon train - Gil Favor and Rowdy Yates were childhood heros. Bonanza with the Cartwright family was also on the box over here and I never missed a John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movie.

I can't honestly say I even knew of Gene Autry until much later but the Lone Ranger and Tonto featured in a lot of our games... We also had Champion the Wonder Horse - does anyone remember him?

Roy Rogers and Dale? was on briefly but I didn't really get hooked. More recently, Little House on the Prarie and the Waltons (I can't help liking those old Waltons!) provided the UK's afternoon TV watchers with a healthy dose of period western TV and a sometimes rather sickly-sweet feel-good factor. I assume you all had those programmes first? Did any of them make their way 'down under'?

Yeah, we had all those shows down here and like Ray, I didn't take to the Waltons, they were too sickly-sweet for me. Another one that was good was "Paladin" with Richard Boone.

Ray, what was the name of the show that had Alf Garnett in it?

Tony.

[barra]

Til death us do part with Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett.

Barra

[tonyc1]

Til death us do part with Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett.

Barra

Yes, that was it. He called his mrs a "Silly old moo".