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Pages in category "1980s Western (genre) television series" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time 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.
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Join us as we take a walk down memory lane with the 28 best ’80s TV shows, PureWow Editors select every item that appears on this page,, and the company may earn compensation through affiliate ...
Outlaw Western More Wild Wild West: Burt Kennedy: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Victor Buono, Jonathan Winters, René Auberjonois, Avery Schreiber, Dave Madden, Liz Torres, Candi Brough, Randi Brough, Harry Morgan, Hector Elias, Gino Conforti, Joe Alfasa: United States: Made for television science fiction Western (based on TV series The Wild Wild ...
The first TV movie was originally intended to serve as the pilot for a weekly TV series, but the series did not materialize, and the film instead had four TV movie sequels, also starring McArthur as McCall. [3] The title was inspired by the 1973 Eagles song Desperado, which also served as the theme music for the series, performed by Don Henley. [4]
A Man Called Shenandoah is an American Western television series that aired Monday evenings on ABC-TV from September 13, 1965 [1] to May 16, 1966. It was produced by MGM Television. Some of the location work for the 34 half-hour black and white episodes were filmed in California's Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert. [2]