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Colt .45 (also known as The Colt Cousins) is an American Western television series, originally starring Wayde Preston, which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. [ 1 ] The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name , starring Randolph Scott .
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 .
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.
Colt .45 is a 1950 American Western film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman and Zachary Scott. [3] Reissued under the title Thundercloud , the film served as the loose basis for the television series Colt .45 starring Wayde Preston , which premiered seven years later.
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dramatic Western Broken Arrow: Delmer Daves: James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Basil Ruysdael, Will Geer, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jay Silverheels, John Doucette: revisionist Western California Passage: Joseph Kane: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara: traditional Western Call of the Klondike: Frank McDonald: Kirby Grant: B Western The Capture: John ...