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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. In ...
The Westerner is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 30 to December 30, 1960. Created and produced by Sam Peckinpah, who also wrote and directed some episodes, the series was a Four Star Television production. [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.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
A Man Called Shenandoah is an American Western television series that aired Monday evenings on ABC-TV from September 13, 1965 [1] to May 16, 1966. It was produced by MGM Television . Some of the location work for the 34 half-hour black and white episodes were filmed in California's Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert .
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 Range Rider is an American Western television series that was first broadcast in syndication from 1951 to 1952. [1] A single lost episode surfaced and was broadcast in 1959. [citation needed] In 1954, the BBC purchased rights to show the program in the UK . [2] It was also shown in Melbourne, Australia, during the 1950s.
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