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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.
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.
Pages in category "2000s Western (genre) television series" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of notable Western films and TV series, ordered by year and decade of release.For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production. The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888.
The show features famous Western legends including Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, and Wyatt Earp, while also bringing to life lesser known historical figures like Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen ...
1950s Western (genre) television series (3 C, 89 P) ... 2000s Western (genre) television series (18 P) 2010s Western (genre) television series (2 C, 23 P)
1 1950s. 2 1960s. 3 1970s. 4 ... The following article consist of shows/programs that aired during the network era of American television from the early 1950s to the ...
Try these Western TV shows and family dramas. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY. Updated December 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM. John Dutton (Kevin Costner) may be gone, but the hunger for "Yellowstone" drama lives on.