[nanetteclaret]

Our favorites so far are "The Big Valley," "Maverick" (the original), "The Texan" (sponsored by Viceroy Cigarettes!), and "Have Gun-Will Travel." Next in the line-up: "Bonanza," "Wagon Train," and "Cheyenne."

[nanetteclaret]

FYI

[Resolute Conservative]

Rawhide and Big Valley.

[Huskrrrr]

Not a TV show, but the best darn western movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFpM2OEWPs

[Nea Wood]

I love old TV shows and movies for the same reason. I wonder if someday they will be banned, since they will contradict what people will be taught about the “bad old days” before PC. Right now there are still people who remember the days when those shows aired. When we’re all gone, I think they’ll have to ban them lest people learn how free Americans used to be.

[left that other site]

Rawhide and The Rifleman

oh... and The Rebel!

[ClearCase_guy]

"Guns of Will Sonnett" was good.

For the big screen, I'm a fan of "The Wild Bunch" with William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine and Warren Oates. It's a bit of an anti-Western, but the only guys with any honor or moral code are the outlaws. The Governments and the big banks are the real murderous thieves.

[4everontheRight]

Gunsmoke!

[Master Zinja]

Gunsmoke (B&W only OR Radio shows - great stuff!), Bonanza, Wanted: Dead Or Alive and The Rifleman are favorites at our house.

And what do our boys (ages 8 and 11) love to watch most of all at our cable-free, satellite-free, antenna-only home? In order of importance:

1. Agents Of SHIELD (only network show they watch)
2. Dragnet
3. Adam-12
4. The Rifleman
5. Gilligan’s Island
6. Leave It To Beaver

Otherwise, they’re not interested much in regular TV (movies are different). They LOVE the law-and-order, straight-and-narrow messages of Joe Friday.

[mountainlion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrGmprVIvX0x

My baby loves the western movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ikBmkBof0

Cowboy up

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I'm a huge fan of Gunsmoke. Especially the old ones when it was still black and white and Chester played by Dan Weaver was Matt's partner. He really did a great job being the comedy relief without being ridiculous; not that Festus was bad he just wasn't quite as good. It really had a gritty feel to it in the early days. I love the first episode, where Matt loses the first gunfight. Something that never happened to Gene Autry or Roy Rogers.

I've also seen the first two of the Gunsmoke made for TV Movies, and they were good. I would love to track down the rest of them.

The rifleman is also another favorite of mine.

[IbJensen]

Stagecoach

The Searchers

True Grit

Rio Grande

Fort Apache

(Many more, but amazingly they’re all John Wayne pictures!)

[IbJensen]

Let’s kick the crap out of the damned liberals and ‘return to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Hi Yo Silver!

[mountainlion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXgwAhucNhc&list=PLDA30AD544C2030C9

15 rare and maybe not so rare...

[nanetteclaret]

And another thing: Are “Manifest Destiny” and “Rugged Individualism” even taught in schools these days? I would guess not, but I don’t know for a fact.

It seems like my Junior High History teacher mentioned those two concepts every day.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

There were so many good ones. I like ‘The Virginian” and “Wagon Train” too.

[Dixie Yooper]

Best movie is The Big Country, with Winchester 73 and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance close behind.

Best TV show is The Wild, Wild West. Wild Wild West took everything from the previous westerns along with end of era technology inventions that were used by and against James West. His arch rival was the most diabolical bad guy ever, and a Little Person.

[LadyBuck]

High Plains Drifter...Desperado....Pale Rider...

[Covenantor]

Well, one of my most memorable western characters was Lash Larue. Did his own stunts with that bullwhip. Always a treat at the Saturday kids movie matinee at our local theater. A quarter for two feature films plus a ton of cartoons.

Didn't take much to amuse us back then, our imaginations ranged far and wide. Walking back home in a pack of four or more after the Sat westerns we'd strut in our pretend cowboy boots. Popcorn boxes served as boot tops. Shooting off whatever caps remained in our pistols. Back then the theater operator invited us to bring cap pistols when there all western Saturdays. Like that could happen today.

[be-baw]

TV shows: Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, F Troop, Maverick, Gunsmoke (pre-Festus), The Americans (starring Dobie Gillis’ brother - a great show that only lasted 12 episodes)

Movies: Rio Bravo, Tombstone (”I’m your huckleberry”), Silverado

[onedoug]

The Hired Hand (1971)