Johnny Yuma was a "Rebel"

[Jeff Timm]

For the light hearted:

Rango with Tim Conway

Laredo with a cast of dozens.

Not so light.

Colt .45

The Lawman

Cheyanne


Geoff
Who liked Sugarfoot too!

 

[Duncaninfrance]

Duncan, You may be right about the singing but.... OK everybody, one more time for Duncan ...only in French this time

Watch it! or I will have to get the Garlic and Onion shells out and then you will be sorry
Duncan

 

[Beartracker]

Duncan, LOL.


Jeff Timm, Yes, I remember all these shows and but Sugar Foot was one I forgot! He always acted and looked like some young innocent dumb kid...untill someone got him mad

 

[sundance44s]

and what would sunday nights have been with out BONANZA ..Hoss , Adam , LittleJoe ..and Ben Cartright .. teachin us the cowboy way ... yeeeeeee haaaa

 

[Beartracker]

What about Bat Masterson

Maverick

Pat Garret with his Butline special

Roy and Dale

Death Valley Days

Mule Train

Johnny Mac Brown

Roy and Dale with Pat Butram and the jeep "Nellie Bell"

Tex Ritter or Hop along Cassidy

Gabby Hase

Wow, I am getting old! Bet some of these younens today who like the old west stuff would have loved our time when westerns was the family shows of the evening. Good memories in front of the fireplace with my four brothers, sister and Mom and Dad watching many of these shows. We never missed Bonanza or most of the other westerns. Got a tear in my eye now....Thanks for the memories guy's, Mike

 

[joab]

Death Valley Days
Best damn show ever

 

[IndianaDean]

No, but I'm very familiar with the song Johnny Yuma, as I've always enjoyed Johnny Cash.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Unfortunately, I'm old enough that I saw Gene Autrey in a live show with his horse, Champion, when he was still a singing cowboy and long before he bought a baseball team.

Any of you remember Lash Larue, or Jock Mahoney? How's about the Range Rider?

 

[Beartracker]

Hawkmoon, Yep, I remember them and Tad and Annie Oakley too. No has mentioned "Cisco and Pancho" or the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Now all of these guys had the best Revolvers I have ever seen.. they never had to reload and could shoot all day
Most of them carried the Colt .45 and some even had the fancy two gun rig with stainless steel and real stag grips, Mike

 

[Old Dragoon]

Gene must have been busy, so he sent Smiley Burnett to our little town Movie Theater. I didn't win the pony either! Darn! But I did get to see and talk to Smiley. Didn't have the coins fer the picture with him. Had the Quarter (usually 15 cents)to get in and a quarter for a coke and popcorn, but didn't have the dollar fer the picture.
Little did I know that the kid with him was his kid, I ran into Smiley's kid here in Acton a couple years back, seems Smiley's kid was a local for some time. He told me he had to travel with Smiley or never see him. I did remember that Smiley had a kid with him "helping out". Kid said he hated travelling around from town to town doing the same show week after week.

 

[gmatov]

Most kids today wouldn't be too interested in these old cowboy movies. The good guy never got in the girl's pants, nobody ever bled like a stuck pig when they were shot, they never blew a man's hand off, and showed it on screen.

You gotta show real brain parts flying to interest kids today. "Wow! that's realistic!"

A shame, really. Pipple who have to shoot pipple punch holes in a vital part, they die. Not the crap on TV and the movies today, gore for the sake of gore.

Duncan, send me some of that garlic stuff. I keep a bowl on the counter of garlic cloves, many types of olives, basil, oregano, extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar, cheap stuff, Colavita, mebbe some hot peppers in it with the flakes, and can't walk past without taking a spoonful. Onions marinated in the same mix are exquisite. Make about a gallon at a time, good for about a month, 5 pounds or so.

Haven't any close friends who wish to go tete-a-tete with me. Could it be garlic breath?

Cheers,

George

 

[History Nut]

Some Others

"26 Men" about the Arizona Rangers. It also had a song:
"Twenty-six Men, who saddled up and then, rode off to save the Territory..."

"Restless Gun" starring John Payne. He carried a Colt 7 1/2" and sometimes did a quick barrel change to something around 12" and a shoulder stock.

"The Rifleman" with Chuck Connors and a large-loop M'92

"Boots and Saddles" set in a Cavalry post in the Southwest. About half the episodes they had the troopers carrying M'92s (director must have wanted lots of shooting) and about half of them they were properly equipped with trapdoor carbines.

"MacKenzie's Raiders" starring Richard Carlson. Supposedly followed Ranald MacKenzie and his 4th Cavalry on the Texas border and their unofficial raids into Mexico to fight the Indians.

"Texas Rangers" that bounced between both modern and Old West times to depict the 'adventures' of the Rangers.

I can't remember if "Lawman" with John Russell was mentioned.

I remember Lash LaRue and Johnny Mack Brown, Hopalong Cassidy and who can ever forget, "The Lone Ranger"!

Also "Wyatt Earp" with Hugh O'Brian.

Something that seemed common in the '60s Westerns on TV were star's having 'gimmick guns'. "Wyatt Earp" the Buntline Special, "The Rifleman" the large-loop Winchester, "The Restless Gun" the convertible Colt, "Wanted Dead or Alive" the 'Mare's Leg', "The Rebel" the Sawed-Off Shotgun.

I know that I will think of more as soon as I post but that is how the old memory works.:banghead:

 

[gmatov]

Rawhide knda sucked.

Clint never got a chance till he made those spaghetti westerns, then he took off.

About the best have seen, in modern times, is the one with the gunfighter and the cattler baron, and the Amish, or whatever sect they were. Forget the name, has been on a buinch lately, gave the boy a sling.
He was shot, she saved his life, he repaid the debt. Outstanding pic. Burned his gun at the end and the boy threw his sling into the same blacksmith's hearth.

Pretty damned good.

Cheers,

George

 

[Duncaninfrance]

Most kids today wouldn't be too interested in these old cowboy movies. The good guy never got in the girl's pants, nobody ever bled like a stuck pig when they were shot, they never blew a man's hand off, and showed it on screen.

You gotta show real brain parts flying to interest kids today. "Wow! that's realistic!"

A shame, really. Pipple who have to shoot pipple punch holes in a vital part, they die. Not the crap on TV and the movies today, gore for the sake of gore.

Duncan, send me some of that garlic stuff. I keep a bowl on the counter of garlic cloves, many types of olives, basil, oregano, extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar, cheap stuff, Colavita, mebbe some hot peppers in it with the flakes, and can't walk past without taking a spoonful. Onions marinated in the same mix are exquisite. Make about a gallon at a time, good for about a month, 5 pounds or so.

Haven't any close friends who wish to go tete-a-tete with me. Could it be garlic breath?

Cheers,

George

You probably glow in the dark by now George!!! There is nothing wrong with garlic breath that moving to another continent wouldn't put right! Trust me, I live in the training area for the Bad Breath Olympics!
Duncan

 

[joab]

Why don't I see F-Troop listed

 

[scbair]

As I recall, John Russell, of "Lawman," was an avid shooter in real life (many, if not most, of the actors of that era were).

Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright of "Bonanza"), on the other hand was Canadian, and, by a number of reports, anti-Second Amendment (except when packin' a hawgleg brought in the dollars, of course).

I always liked Clint Walker, of "Cheyenne." That was a big, tough hombre.

Hey, who else remembers Gail Davis, star of "Annie Oakley"? She was cute!

 

[sundance44s]

Man what ever happen to my toy guns that were made for these tv westerns ... i must have had them all ... my room looked like a toy gun armory ... and boots and cowboy hats ... looking through the old family photo album wow theres me at 5 with my gun rigs on ....6 with my gun rigs on ... hahaha ... latter years me with my cowboyhats ,boots and no gun rigs ! darn shame i had to grow up ..what a walk down memory lane ... through the dusty streets of my boyhood mind , with a bad guy around every corner no problem i`ll draw my silver plated six shooters that shoot 100 of times with out reloading ..lol thanks guys .

 

[SixForSure]

The sawed off winchester was carried by the "Bounty hunter" as someone pointed out above.
Someone posted better pics of Johnny Yumas shot gun above.Steve McQueen was the bounty hunter.(1958-1961 ,94 episodes)

Those were the days. Nowdays, a 4 year run for a TV show is what, about 24 episodes? of course we do get to see each one over, and over, and ov.............

 

[Beartracker]

Those were the days. Nowdays, a 4 year run for a TV show is what, about 24 episodes? of course we do get to see each one over, and over, and ov.............

You got that right.We didn't have 10 minutes of show and 20 minutes of commercials either. Mike

 

[Johnny_Yuma]

To answer the orginal question

I carry a Glock 23 and sometimes a Taurus CH85 Airweight as a back-up. I have a Remington 870 for serious debates.

Just kidding - the cut-down shotty is the correct answer. Steve McQueen carried the cut-down Winchester in Dead or Alive.

JY

 

[MCgunner]

I had a toy "Bounty Hunter" rig when I was a kid that used spring loaded "ammo" with plastic bullets and you could put a "greenie stick 'em cap" on each "cartridge case" to make it go bang. Wouldn't pass the legal office of Mattel now days, I'm quite sure. I also had a Paladin cap gun, rig (with the knight's chess piece on the holster) and a pack of business cards with the "have gun, will travel" on 'em that went in a pouch on the rig. Ah, them were the days. I was the baddest hombre north of the Rio Grande, or at least on our block.


Now then, how does it go?

"Branded, marked with a coward's shame,
What do you do when you're branded,
And you know you're a maaaaaaan...."

Didn't last long, I know. I also liked "The Rifleman" "Gunsmoke" was a little too much story line to keep a kid's attention. It was all about the shootout back then. I appreciate the re-runs now days, though. That was when they had REAL writers on prime time shows, ones that didn't try to see how many four letter words they could sneak past the censors or how many new ways to work sex and homosexuality into a sit com.

Pat Garret with his Butline special

Umm, believe that was...

"Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp,
Brave, courageous, and Bald, er, bold;
Long live his fame and long live his glory,
And long may his story be told...."

 

[mainmech48]

Jeez! What about "Yancy Derringer"? Pahoo (played by Iron Eyes Cody) had to have been the Ultimate Bad-a$$ Sidekick with that huge Bowie hanging between his shoulders and miniature 10 ga. double hidden in the folds of his blanket robe. Many's the time I recall him whipping that little item out and clearing all of the bottles (also the mirror and assorted assailants) from behind the bar of a saloon, or instantly making that Bowie or a tomahawk appear in the torso of some villian trying to do Yancy in from the shadows.

Yancy's gimmick was, of course, derringers. Especially the Sharps four-barrel of which he always seemed to have at least two stashed somewhere on his person.

Can't remember the name of the series right now, but Robert Culp played a fellow whose sidearm was a S&W No.3. Must've imprinted me subliminally like a baby duck, as I still have a fascination with the big top-break Smiths.

Lash LaRue, Wild Bill and Jingles, Hoppy and Gabby, Cisco and Pancho, Josh Randall, Paladin, Bat Masterson, Roy, Dale and Pat, Johnny Yuma, Johnny Ringo, Tales of Wells Fargo, Wyatt Earp, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, Maverick, Wagon Train, The Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley.... the memories just cascade.

 

[MCgunner]

Okay, perfect thread for this question. Was Yancy or who was it that had the derringer in his belt buckle. I had that rig, too, when I was a kid (spoiled little brat). You pooch your stomach out into the buckle and the derringer would pop out and fire its greenie stick'em cap. Belt also had the ubiquitous hog leg in a buscadero holster. I couldn't wear that thing anymore considering my stomach is permanently pooched out now days.

 

[joab]

Can't remember the name of the series right now, but Robert Culp played a fellow who's sidearm was a S&W No.3.

I think that was "Trackdown" the series that "Wanted dead or Alive" was spun off from

 

[meef]

Rin Tin Tin. Anybody remember that one? Cowboy show, sort of.

I was only a kid, but I thought that was a neat show - at the time.

Gooooo Rinty!