Favorite TV Show Featuring Guns?

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Sledgehammer is fantastic.

I own 5 seasons of Magnum PI.

The Shield is good also. 24 is pretty good sometimes.

Non-Fiction Shows: Shootout (History Ch), History of the Gun (History Ch) etc
 
I'm a 24 fan. I love that show, aside from that I don't watch a whole lot of TV. The History Channel has some really good gun related shows. Just today I watched an hour long episode about Marine Scout Snipers followed by another hour long episode about U.S. Army Snipers. Future Weapons and Mail Call. I also really like Human Weapon but that is martial arts and not guns.
 
First off the top of my head, "Firefly" "I swear by my pretty bonnet, I will end you."
BUt thinking of "the A-team" brought back some fine memories, too. heard there was going to be a movie with Brendan Frasier, I think I'd waste two hours on that.
 
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I also really like Human Weapon but that is martial arts and not guns.
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I'll never understand how "martial arts" and guns became separated in the minds of the american people. guns are just another step on the spectrum of personal weapons, that start with the fist, onto the club, the spear and sword, and now the gun.
 
I've heard so much talk about "Firefly" that I went to Best Buy and forked over $40 bucks (SNIP). After watching the first 3 episodes, the jury is still out. I'm still a little shaky on the idea of the western as science fiction.
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Actually, Star Trek (the original series) was funded by NBC because Gene Roddenberry sold them on it as a "space western".
Other space western TV series include; Space Rangers (1993, not the 50's Rocky Jones series), Starhunter, Starhunter 2300, ST:TNG, ST:Voyager, ST-DS9, Enterprise, Space: Above And Beyond, etc.
Firefly has to be the best of the bunch. An interesting and believable combination...it was the frontier region of colonized human space after all. It is a shame FOX screwed it up so badly. They only aired 10 of the 13 episodes, and then finally aired the pilot (which introduced the cast and plot) as the last episode? Although my favorite older TV "space western" series is Rocky Jones Space Ranger, followed by Space Patrol and Tom Corbett Space Cadet.
Westerns in general with gun twists? "Yancy Derringer", "Wild Wild West", "Northwest Passage", and even "Daniel Boone".
Spy and PI shows like Danger Man (aka Secret Agent in the USA), Man From Uncle, Honey West, etc had some fun stuff. And what about the guy who was "gun"....Peter Gunn. Loved Combat and Rat Patrol.
And let's not forget the movie "Bullitt"....great sawed-off shotgun scene :D
So many shows, so many guns.....
Jack
 
+2 for The Untouchables
+1 for Combat

Lots and lots of shooting in both - in black and white.

I seem to remember (getting more difficult every day) that there was some movement that was attempting to get the Untouchables off the tube because of excessive violence. It would be incredibly tame in today's world.:rolleyes:

Ok, So I really am a geezer. :D
 
Firefly (another browncoat checking in)

Magnum P.I. (I think his 1911 was a 9mm - have to check that)

Law & Order (I always get a kick out of the old veterans with the .38s - except Fontana who had a Model 19 - and the new guys with glocks)

NCIS, NUMB3RS (not alot of shooting, but good nonetheless)
 
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Ok so I think the best use of firearms in any show is 24, Jack Bauer is my personal hero. Second the A-team had lots of gun play, the Unit is pretty good on guns but it has lost me as a viewer now that is a soap opera.
 
The Beverly Hillbillies. Seriously. The guns played a larger role in the earlier b&w episodes, but the Clampetts were all very accomplished marksmen. Jed had a muzzleloading longrifle of some kind which Granny described in one episode as their "best gun." Granny had a double barrel shotgun. Jethro had a leveraction Winchester. Elly May used a slingshot.
Jed and Jethro were depicted shooting in the yard of their mansion. They were shooting at matches with the goal being to light the match. Elly May was shown breaking clay pigeons on a skeet range with her slingshot. Granny blew an actor playing U.S. Grant off a galloping horse with a gun loaded with Elly May's ladyfingers. Even Mr. Drysdale was an enthusiastic skeet shooter. And let us not forget that the Clampetts gained their wealth when Jed was "shooting at some food."
 
Have Gun-Will Travel.
I'm watching the complete first season,1957,again right now.
Richard Boone was the coolest and the show has really held up well after 50 years.
Excellent writing and lots of future stars like Charlie Bronson,Mike Connors,Angie Dickinson, and Jack Lord appear.
 
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Browncoat, here.

Re: Beverly Hillbillies -- my fave was Jed & Jethro on the porch, shooting toward the far wall of the estate. Asked what they're doing, Jed says that they smeared some honey on the wall, and are shooting flies.

"You shoot them when they get stuck in the honey?"

"Nope. That'd be cheatin'. Gotta get 'em while they're comin' in for a landin'."
 
CSI: Miami totally lost me after the "Vaporizer" episode. It was called "Guerilla's in the Mist" and was about a metal storm knock off.

In regards to Magnums 1911, there is speculation that the prop gun was a 9mm blank gun due to feed reliability issues of .45blank. But the character's gun was a .45 Colt 1911 Government 5in.

A lot of the western shows are a bit too early for me so I never got into them. But Brisco Country Jr. was awesome! Deadwood I mentioned. And "Dead Man's Gun" is a pretty entertaining show too. The gun featured is unique to, a heavily engraved .45 S&W Schofield, I think, but can't remember.
 
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