My Netflix queue is loaded with as many old Westerns and other movies that would play on Saturday afternoon when I was a kid as could find. Favorite old TV shows Too. And my 8-year old son actually loves them. Westerns, War Movies, fantasy adventure like the Sinbad movies, and Jerry Lewis and Abbott & Costello. My favorites then and still are.
His favorite TV shows to watch are Emergency, Adam 12, and my F-Troop & Gilligan's Island DVD sets. Yesterday he watched (twice by his request)Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin in Artist and Models... So I guess all kids aren’t wasting their lives on today's TV smut and gory video games.
Wonderful! My forum name is what Pat Butram called Gene, Mr. Artery. Also, Rocky Lane was the TV voice of Mr. Ed.
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On Saturday mornings on local PBS channel we have the old Saturday morning Westerns, complete with the serial.
They also have two or three old guys with guitars that finish out the 2 hour show with comments on the movie and a song or two.
I search out western movies every so often for hubby to watch on the computer.
We need more shows like those old westerns (television and movies) these days for youngsters to watch, with a theme of good guy heroes corralling the bad guys...basically good overcoming evil.
We’ve had far too many anti-heroes since these men were on the scene.
...Tex Ritter's gone and Disney's dead,
and the movies are filled with sex!
What ever happened to Randolph Scott,
ridin' the trail alone...
(anybody else remember that neat old song?)
Most of those disappeared from TV re-runs by the time I got old enough to enjoy them, but thankfully many are now going to DVD.
Out of the Westerns I grew up with My favorites were:
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit
The Cowboys
Once upon a time in the West
The Good the Bad, and The Ugly
The Cheyenne Social Club
The Outlaw Josey Wales
growning up as a kid in the 50’s and 60’s, I became a western junkie....mostly TV westerns but movies too...as I got to be an adult, I became more selective about all things...including westerns...
accuracy was horrible in old westerns pre 1870s westerns showed heros and villians brandishing SAA colts and pre 1890s westerns showed the hero brandishing 1892 and 1894 Winchesters....the stories of the older westerns were extremely simplistic....good vs bad....no meat to the stories.
NO, I am sorry...the best westerns (with the exception of such classics as Shane, Winchester 73, the Searchers, and a number of others), can’t hold a candle to such ‘modern’ Classics as ‘The Shootist’, ‘True Grit’, ‘Tombstone’, Eastwoods ‘Unforgiven’ and the miniseries ‘Lonesome Dove’....and to a lesser extent Quigley Down Under, Crossfire Trail, and the first season of ‘Deadwood’(it went down hill rapidly after that season)
there are 2 or 3 Costner movies I will watch more than once, but until this guy gets a film editor and pairs down his movies to 2 hours, I wont include them in my greatest lists.(ok, here they are...Wyatt Earp, Dances with Wolves, Open Range)
Just my $0.02.
Bumping so i can enjoy later!
Thanks, I enjoyed that, I’ll have to watch it again, so much so fast! It makes me wonder what happened to Hollywood westerns. Maybe not enough people ride horses, even see a horse these days to relate.
40 or 50 years from now will they be making songs about Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolei, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp and other people in the movies?
Will they make songs about today’s fads, like cell phones, WII’s, Facefook, and Twitter?
Will oldy stations (if radio is still around) play todays pop music and hip hop?
NO, NO, and NO
“Oh, Cisco.” “Oh, Pancho.”
It’s good to see how many of you are young enough to still have a memory. I started going to the ‘Movie House’ in the little podunk town of San Joaquin Ca in the late 30s and things were so tough that the owner ‘Professor Fiat’ would do magic tricks during intermission for the kids and raffle off bags of groceries for the adults to entice viewers. I think it was called the Rialto and it was the only building standing amid the rubble of 3 or 4 brick buildings on either side.
Of course most of my favorite Westerns were on the radio that were serials and you couldn’t miss a episode because you would get a clue that you used with the secret decoder badge that you got when you sent in 96 box tops from Post Toasties.
and yes I miss the Stattler Bros TV show...
You can still see those old westerns if you have a dish.
That was fun - thanks!
Although not a movie, I did like “Have Gun, Will Travel”.
A few years back I read that it isn’t aired on TV/cable as it’s
regarded as “too violent” (probably as in the bad guys get what’s coming).
I’m not a huge western fan, but the online classic radio station I listen to plays Gunsmoke, Gene Autry & Dale Evans, Fort Laramie (with Raymond Burr), the Cisco Kid, Red Ryder, and other westerns. Some are better than others, but you get a chance to hear these shows on a regular basis if that’s your thing.
Radio Antioch on iTunes. A free service.
The Cowboy Codes: From Gene Autry’s Code of Honor to The Lone Ranger Creed, you find them all here.
http://www.elvaquero.com/The_Cowboy_Code.htm
Roy Rogers Riders Club Rules
Be neat and clean.
Be courteous and polite.
Always obey your parents.
Protect the weak and help them.
Be brave, but never take chances.
Study hard and learn all you can.
Be kind to animals and care for them.
Eat all your food and never waste any.
Love God and go to Sunday School regularly.
Always respect our flag and our country.
I always liked the Cisco Kid. He was a sharp dresser and the stories were a lot of fun. Pancho was the perfect side kick too. “Oh Pancho! Oh Ceesco! Hee hee hee”
Wonderful video, about the only channel I watch now is Encore’s Western Channel!