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When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
Pages in category "1950s Western (genre) television series" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
2 1960s. 3 1970s. 4 1980s. 5 ... The following article consist of shows/programs that aired during the network era of American television from the early 1950s to ...
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
1950 United States The Eagle and the Hawk: Lewis R. Foster: Western. American Civil War spies: 1950 United States The Outriders: Roy Rowland: Western. 1950 United States Kansas Raiders: Ray Enright: Drama, Western. 1950 United States Two Flags West: Robert Wise: War, Western. Galvanized Yankees: 1950 United States Rocky Mountain: William Keighley
There was a time when westerns ruled the small screen, often taking the form of action-packed weekly morality plays. Now that they have been reinvented for a new audience, Graeme Ross rounds up ...
For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production. The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888 . Until 1903 , films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes, [ 1 ] reflecting the amount of film that could be wound onto a standard reel for projection, hence the term.
With the emergence of television in the 1950s, producers spun out a large number of Western-oriented shows. At the height of their popularity in 1959, more than two dozen "cowboy" programs were on weekly. At least five others were connected to some extent with Wyatt Earp: Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, Broken Arrow, Johnny Ringo, and Gunsmoke.