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In Reply to: Re: My faves: posted by Bolt on July 24, 2005 at 01:18:33:

two that have already been mentioned:
"The Rifleman" & "Wanted Dead or Alive"
All westerns were pretty poorly done IMO and had low budgets. We are talking about a free TV program that ran during the daylight hours as I remember them. I would watch these shows as a kid when the weather was too nasty to go outside and play. Very tame by the standards of today, even for the wild west!
-Bill

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"We are talking about a free TV program that ran during the daylight hours..." - Most were originally prime time. - Audiophilander 08:24:01 07/25/05 (4)
There were quite a few Saturday morning westerns aimed at kids during the 1950's (Sky King, My Friend Flicka, Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger, etc.), but after the initial success of Gunsmoke most western series (Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive, Bat Masterson, Rifleman, Cheyenne, Maverick, Yancy Derringer, The Virginian, Bonanza, etc., etc., etc.) targeted adults and were prime time fare.
You're absolutely right about the low budgets, but it seems like most shows back then were cheaply made regardless of genre. As for when you saw them as a kid (as did I), well, some of the more sophisticated prime time westerns were probably shown earlier when rerun in local markets, unless of course they had been syndicated, as opposed to network produced, to begin with.
If your recollections are different, please correct mine.
Cheers,
AuPh
- Re: "We are talking about a free TV program that ran during the daylight hours..." - Most were originally prime time. - KT88 08:50:17 07/25/05 (3)
  I just remember watching these during the day like perhaps Saturday morning or weekday afternoons as an alternative to soap operas(gag). I was maybe six or seven and this was the early 70's. We probably got three channels via VHF and two via UHF. Slim Pickin's to watch back then (hey, he was on the "Grand ole Opry" or "Hee, Haw!" wasn't he?).
  -Bill
  - Re Slim Pickens? Right here next to my heart! - Gee LP 15:37:42 07/25/05 (2)
    "Hee Haw", of course! I have the note verifying that right here next to my heart...heart...heart...heart! (Slim's fans know EXACTLY where his heart is!)
    A shame about how he (and his wife?) died, murdered for money they didn't even have.
    The shows you are talking about were originally produced for prime time. They shot something like 46 episodes of "The Rifleman" for that first season! But the combination of ratings success and low budgets made TV westerns irresistible for TV producers in the Fifties and Sixties and early Seventies.
    - Re:One of these days maybe I'll remember who Slim Pickens is! - Gee LP 16:34:36 07/25/05 (1)
      Oh my God! I just realized I had confused beloved country comedian Stringbean with nuclear warhead rider Slim Pickens! They even looked completely different!
      Oh well....
      - Re:One of these days maybe I'll remember who Slim Pickens is! - KT88 09:12:40 07/26/05 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re:One of these days maybe I'll remember who Slim Pickens is! posted by Gee LP on July 25, 2005 at 16:34:36:
        
        I could not remember which was which either. Slim Pickens has played in way more movies than I could have imagined. It was indeed "Stringbean" who I had in mind.
        -Bill

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