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Westerns on television

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While the traditional Westerns mostly died out in the late 1960s, more modernized Westerns, incorporating story concepts from outside the traditional genre, began appearing on television shortly thereafter. A number of the new shows downplayed the traditional violent elements of Westerns, for example
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in 1974, 1968 was the last season any new traditional Westerns debuted on television; by 1969, after pressure from parental advocacy groups who claimed Westerns were too violent for television, all three of the major networks ceased airing new Western series. Demographic pressures and overall burnout
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By 1959, four years after the boom in TV Westerns began, thirty such shows were on television during prime time; none had been canceled that season, while 14 new ones had appeared. In one week in March 1959, eight of the top ten shows were Westerns, and an estimated $ 125 million in toys based on TV
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The main characters are two wanted bank robbers on the run under false identities, who now wish to reform, and have been secretly promised a pardon by the governor on the condition that they stay out of trouble until some unspecified future time. They must deal with people and situations they
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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 the 1990s and 2000s, slickly packaged made-for-TV movie Westerns were introduced.
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A horse cost up to $ 100 a day, compared to $ 22.05 for an extra; increasing production costs caused most action half-hour series vanishing in the early 1960s to be replaced by hour long television shows, increasingly in color. Two unusual Western series of this era are
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from the format may have also been a factor as viewers became bored and disinterested with the glut of Westerns on the air at the time. By 1971, production companies had acknowledged that "the Western idea is out." The two last traditional Westerns,
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Westerns would be sold that year. Many were "four-wall Westerns", filmed indoors in three days or less with scripts of poor quality, and the genre's enormous popularity mystified even its creators;
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was an American Western/dramatic television series created by Beth Sullivan. It ran on CBS for six seasons, from January 1, 1993, to May 16, 1998, and won multiple Emmy awards.
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When the popularity of television exploded in the late 1940s and 1950s, Westerns quickly became a staple of small-screen entertainment. The first, on June 24, 1949, was the
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was a black and white American television series that ran for six seasons from December 30, 1951, to June 9, 1957, on NBC, with a total of 100 episodes. The series starred
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was an American long-running early radio and television show created by George W. Trendle and developed by writer Fran Striker. The titular character is a masked
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quoted one of the about 100 writers for TV Westerns as wondering "I don't get it. Why do people want to spend so much time staring at the wrong end of a horse?"
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was a family adventure show about a gentle mountain man with an uncanny connection to wildlife who helps others who visit his wilderness refuge.
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in the American Old West, who gallops about righting injustices, usually with the aid of a clever and laconic Native American companion named
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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
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was a long-running Western/crime drama series, set in the modern era, in the United States, that starred and later was produced by
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aired on ABC from September 20, 1989, to July 23, 1992, for three seasons. The show followed a group of riders for the fabled
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by having the main characters go unarmed and/or seek to avoid conflicts, or by emphasizing fantasy, comedy or family themes.
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in 1955 that adult Westerns appeared on television, and the genre became enormously popular. Notable TV Westerns include
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encounter while on the run, without giving away their true identities or committing any further criminal acts. Like
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who would meet people on the trail and get drawn into solving whatever problem they presented or were confronting.
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on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned
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Westerns women: interviews with 50 leading ladies of movie and television westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s
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subgenre but still draw inspiration from the outlaw attitudes prevalent in traditional Western productions.
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was a television Western series which aired on the American network CBS from 1959 to 1966. It starred
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as a motorcycle-riding, unarmed peacemaker in a late-era Western setting. The low-budget sitcom
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was set on the frontier in the time period of the Western, but was essentially a family drama.
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The 1990s saw the networks filming Western movies on their own. These include Louis L'Amour's
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Traditional Westerns began to disappear from television in the late 1960s and early 1970s as
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was in the tradition of the itinerant gunfighter Westerns, but the main character was a
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was a lighthearted who-dunnit mystery series set in the late Western era, starring
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Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders
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was the fourth longest-running American TV Western, beaten only by nine years of
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in 1982) aired on NBC from September 11, 1974, to March 21, 1983, based on the
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from January 1971 to January 1973, was inspired by the success of the movie
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to the present day, which make up several hours of their daytime schedule.
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genre and put it into a Western setting, with established TV Western star
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Hollywood's West: the American frontier in film, television, and history
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Western TV shows from the 2000s included the Zorro-inspired, syndicated
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are programs with settings in the later half of the 19th century in the
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performer, also appeared in early Western films for the same audience.
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Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television
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was a satirical sitcom that made fun of the genre. The limited-run
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carried a block of Westerns on Sundays; the network still airs
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during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "
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of Westerns have become more common. Upon its launch in 1996,
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Series with Western themes that debuted in the 2010s include
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ended its run in 1973, largely due to the abrupt death of
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became ubiquitous. With the exception of the short-lived
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under Spanish rule, and the British/Australian Western
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Andreeva, Nellie; Petski, Denise (November 8, 2021).
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Index

TV Western
Westerns

Film
Television
Literature
Visual arts
Dime novels
Comics
Wild West shows
Subgenres
Acid Western
Australian Western
Contemporary Western
Dacoit Western
Epic Western
Fantasy Western
Florida Western
Gothic Western
Horror Western
Northern
Ostern
Revisionist Western
Science fiction Western
Singing cowboy
Space Western
Spaghetti Western
Weird Western
Western romance
Zapata Western

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