It's kind of amusing how most western shows present a nice orderly town, and hardly anything changes. It's like they are in some never-ending period of "the west" that goes on forever. You would think a long-running show would depict the introduction of modern inventions like automobiles, electricity, motion pictures,etc. But they never seem to advance from a period of "not long after the Civil War", even if the show runs for 10 or more years. I still enjoy watching old 50's westerns.
If you guys are so upset about “sanitized” 50s westerns, you all should check out The Rifleman which was produced by...Sam Peckinpah. I used to keep a pad next to me on Saturday mornings a few years ago to keep track of how many men Chuck Conners blew away in the first ten minutes. The show was criticized for its violence.
Kind of like the '60's TV series Combat, which was about soldiers fighting in the European Theater during WWII. Although the show ran for about five years, the fighting nerver moved very far from the Normandy beachhead.
It’s kind of amusing how most western shows present a nice orderly town, and hardly anything changes. It’s like they are in some never-ending period of “the west” that goes on forever. You would think a long-running show would depict the introduction of modern inventions like automobiles, electricity, motion pictures,etc. But they never seem to advance from a period of “not long after the Civil War”, even if the show runs for 10 or more years. I still enjoy watching old 50’s westerns.
Richard Boone as Hec Ramsey was set in the early 1900’s and showed the transition from the Old West to the 20th century. Good show. Ran from 72 to 74.