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Bobby Benson was created by Herbert C. Rice, who had already originated "dozens of local drama series" as a director at a radio station in Buffalo, New York. [1] In 1932, representatives of the Hecker H-O Company of Buffalo sought to develop a children's radio program for the company's cereal products.
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.
The series followed Chuck Connors's series The Rifleman, but it did not have that show's longevity, lasting only 48 episodes over two seasons. For the first season, 13 episodes were shot in black-and-white; the three-part story "The Mission" was shot in color. The second season of 32 episodes was made entirely in color.
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.
The Big Story (radio and TV series) The Big Surprise; Big Town; The Bigelow Theatre; The Bill Dana Show; The Billy Rose Show; The Bing Crosby Show (1964 TV series) The Black Robe (TV series) Black Saddle; Blind Date (American game show) Blondie (1957 TV series) The Bob Cummings Show; Bold Journey; Bold Venture; Bonino (TV series) Boots and ...
The sun rises as participants in the Jr. Beef Heifer Show of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo bring in their cows from being tied up outside for the night. JANUARY 19, 8:35 a.m.
In recent years, the interest in Black cowboy culture has grown because of music projects such as Lil Nas X’s 2018 hit song, “Old Town Road,” and Beyonce’s country-themed “Cowboy Carter ...
Cheyenne is an American Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season.