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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 .
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 Wild Wild West is an American Western, spy, and science fiction television series [1] [2] that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965, to April 11, 1969. Two satirical comedy television film sequels were made with the original stars in 1979 and 1980 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the series was adapted for a theatrical ...
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.
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1965–67, starring Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers.It is set on the Mexican border around Laredo in Webb County in South Texas.
The Legend of Jesse James is an American Western television series starring Christopher Jones in the title role of notorious outlaw Jesse James. Produced by Don Siegel, [1] it aired on ABC from September 13, 1965, to May 9, 1966.
All three networks would carry the launch of Gemini 5 in color that August and all subsequent crewed space launches. July 31 - GTV (Ghana) begins as GBC TV, making it the first television station in Ghana. August 1 – Cigarette adverts are banned from UK television, though pipe tobacco and cigar adverts continue until 1992.