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The Big Valley was cancelled in 1969 as the TV Western craze began to fade, and to make room for more modern series. [9] In Ella Smith's 1973 biography, Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck, Smith noted that The Big Valley had been cancelled by ABC mainly due to a poor time slot.
Barbara Stanwyck (/ ˈ s t æ n w ɪ k /; born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress and dancer. A stage, film, and television star, during her 60-year professional career she was known for her strong, realistic screen presence and versatility.
Stanwyck on the cover of the September 1931 Photoplay magazine Stanwyck in Stella Dallas (1937) Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (1941) Lobby poster of Fred MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity (1944) James Mason, Ava Gardner, and Stanwyck in East Side, West Side advertisement in Modern Screen magazine (1949)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre is an American Western anthology television series that was broadcast on CBS from October 5, 1956, ... Stars Barbara Stanwyck.
In the 1960s she played Audra Barkley, the daughter of Victoria Barkley (played by Barbara Stanwyck) in the Western television series The Big Valley (1965–1969). She is best known for portraying Krystle Carrington in the 1980s ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989.
In 1965, at the age of 38, Long began his role as attorney Jarrod Barkley, the oldest son of rancher Victoria Barkley (Barbara Stanwyck), in 112 episodes of The Big Valley, the last of the major Four Star Television series, a Western that ran on ABC from 1965 to 1969. The series was set in the 1870s.
Union Pacific is a Western television series starring Jeff Morrow, Judson Pratt, and Susan Cummings that aired in syndication from 1958 until 1959. This show was inspired by the 1939 film also named Union Pacific, starring Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Preston.
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.
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