Poll:What is Your Favorite Classic TV Western From the Golden Age(1955-1968)

What Is Your Favorite TV Western From the Golde Ag(1955-1968

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Sorry; not to go with your list, but I have to vote for Hoppalong Cassidy.

If you can overlook that perjorative name, he, as an older gentleman, gave a maturity that was so appealing. And I was just a child of course, but his series had a special quality that was unmatched with the exception of prehaps the Cisco Kid.
 
I voted for TWWW (it WAS my favorite), but it really doesn't belong on the list--with all the gadgets and the disguises and the evil Dr. Lovelace, it was closer to the Batman TV show than to Bonanza.

You should have put Branded on the list, with Chuck Connors (after The Rifleman). Only two seasons, but it was kind of The Western Fugitive, with the unjustly accused meeting people and having to move on when he is found out. Add an Asian twist, and you have Kung Fu.
 
BTW, you forgot 'The Streets of Laredo'!
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I feel the pain.It wasn't really forgetting Laredo but what to leave out with the 16 choice limit.
So Cheyenne,Sugarfoot,Johnny Yuma,Branded,Yancy Derringer and others are sadly missing.
Hoppy,Roy,Gene and the Lone Ranger's earliest episodes preceded the 1955 cutoff.
Sorry.I loved almost all of these shows and spent my youth watching them.Fortunately we have the DVD's and videos to watch them again.And thank you for those links,guys.
And a big thank you to all who have voted and commented on these wonderful classics.I'm watching some of my favorite, HG-WT the first season 1957,this weekend.
Was there ever a more unique character on any show than Paladin?:)
 
GUNSMOKE was the longest running dramatic, primetime, network series in the history of television. Twenty years, 1955-1975. CBS. :)

L.W.
 
What??? No Sky King!

I didnt take that show seriously but I suppose it goes hand in hand with Roy Rogers.
 
I was at Pony Express in the SF valley many years ago

with my 2 year old daughter. I noticed a very tall customer there but did not pay attention to him untill one of the salesmen said 'That's Chuck Conners' Wow. I set my daughter on my shoulders and went over to say hi.
 
I voted Gunsmoke but my favorites of that were the ones after Festus came along. Just loved Festus and Doc. That was half the show; as a matter of fact each and every actor and actress on that show complimented each other.
 
There were 4 I didn't click on because I had never seen them, the list I would make of the ones you didn't have would be even longer going back to Tex Ritter, Lash Larue, Hopalong Cassidy, Wild Bill Hickock, etc. I'm beginning to see the link to guns and my love for single action revolvers. If I had to pick one it would be Have Gun Will Travel and the rest a close second.
 
Picked Gusnmoke because I used to watch that even as an adult. Very well done acting and writing, and I loved the relationship between Dillon and Miss Kitty.

But most of the shows I used to love were on radio, like the Lone Ranger show on the pictureless TV.
 
Anybody remember Johnny Mac Brown or Lash Larue?
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Oh yes!Lash could whirl that whip. And Johnny Mack was an All America lineman at Alabama in the early '30's before he went off to Hollywood stardom.
And don't forget Tom Mix,Bob Steele and Tex Ritter.Now I am revealing my age!

But most of the shows I used to love were on radio
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I agree 230.Gunsmoke on radio with William Conrad as Matt captivated me more than any other show.
Georgia Ellis as Kitty,Howard McNeer as Doc and Parley Baer as Chester are matchless.
I can close my eyes and still "see" my imagination soaring the first time I heard the show on radio in 1953 when I was six.
And that incredible inspirational theme song.Great memories.
 
How about the Guns of Will Sonnet, or the Westerner, or good grief, at one time there were over 37 westerns running at the same time. How about that Sugarfoot, or Bronco Lane, and Don't forget Cheyenne Brodie, Did you list Yancy Derringer, Johnny Yuma ( sawed of shotgun), Ringo ( who used a LaMat). So many, and now when I watch Gunsmoke on TV Land I keep looking at those phony Stag Grips and a Great Western six gun, not even a Colt.
 
For those who'd like to relive some of these old shows you can catch many clips of them on youtube.com. They don't have the complete shows because of copyright laws but they certainly have enough to bring back good memories.
 
I grew up on these programs and could have answered, honestly, with just about any one of them. But I voted for Rawhide because when I was a kid, I thought Rowdy Yates was the COOLEST guy I'd ever seen. Later on, I went around squinting, hoping to get the same crows feet around my eyes as Clint Eastwood. Guess what? It worked! Took 40-something years, but it worked real well.

I'd also vote the Rawhide theme song, especially as sung by the Blues Brothers, the best tv theme song ever.

Not to muddy the water, but I met Ken Curtis, otherwise known as "Festus" at the Wilbarger Rodeo when I was a kid. I didn't think you could meet a bigger star. I've also had the pleasure of meeting Buck Taylor and have to say he's a fine gentleman, as good as they come. He's a heck of an artist as well.
 
Johnny Mack Brown was an All American Halfback at Alabama, not a lineman. He was from Dothan, Al., about 30 miles from where I grew up. He always rode his horse Rebel in the annual Peanut Festival in Dothan.
All that being said, I was a huge fan of 'The Big Valley'. My last name is Barkley and I named my daughter after Linda Evans character. She has yet to forgive me.
 
Johnny Mack Brown was an All American Halfback at Alabama, not a lineman. He was from Dothan, Al., about 30 miles from where I grew up. He always rode his horse Rebel in the annual Peanut Festival in Dothan.
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Well,I at least I got the All America part right.And it was the 20's,not the Thirties, longer ago than I thought that Johnny did his exploits.
Thanks for the correction,msgttbar.I do understand your daughter though!
Gotta be careful on THR.
They are sharp out there.:D
 
I got to watch all of those (at least starting in '58) with my Gramps. I remember my Great Gram grousing..."Oh cripes... more horseship and gunpowder!". I even liked F-Troop.
 
Lash LaRue, King of the Bullwhip!

Wild Wild West was my show, Lone Ranger close second.
 
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