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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 ...
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 .
The Dick Van Dyke Show: 23.6 17: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: NBC: 23.2 The Ed Sullivan Show: CBS 19: The Lawrence Welk Show: ABC: 22.4 I've Got a Secret: CBS 21: Petticoat Junction: 22.3 22: Gilligan's Island: 22.1 23: The Wild Wild West: 22.0 The Jackie Gleason Show: The Virginian: NBC 26: Daniel Boone: 21.9 27: Lassie: CBS: 21.8 I ...
Branded is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966. It was sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night, 8:30 p.m. Eastern time period. The series is set in the Old West, following the end of the American Civil War.
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 Loner is an American Western television series that played for one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, with the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble. The series was created by Rod Serling a year after the cancellation of the series The Twilight Zone. It was one of the last TV series broadcast by CBS in black-and-white.
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.
Sierra Railway Engine #3 at the old Jamestown, California Depot, for the filming of the pilot episode of The Big Valley, 1965. The Big Valley is an American Western television series that originally aired from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969 on ABC. [1] The series is set on the fictional Barkley Ranch in Stockton, California, from 1884