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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.
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1993–94 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program Network Rating 1:
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
Interestingly, even though Longmire became the highest-rated original drama series on A&E at the time, the network later announced that they would not renew the show after Season 3. Luckily ...
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1964–65 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program Network Rating 1 ...
10. ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ (1969) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%. IMDb Score: 8/10. A train robbery gone wrong sets the stage for what has become not just a classic Western film, but ...
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1951–52 season as measured by Nielsen Media ... Goodyear TV Playhouse: NBC: 37.8 17: Pabst Blue ...
The list was also counted down in an ABC television special, TV Guide's 50 Best Shows of All Time, on May 13, 2002. The 50 entries, chosen and ranked by the editors of TV Guide, consist of regularly scheduled series spanning more than half a century of television. TV movies, miniseries and specials were not eligible. [1]