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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 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.
Pages in category "Western (genre) television actors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 424 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.
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Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series.
There was a time when Westerns ruled the small screen, often taking the form of action-packed weekly morality plays. Now that they are being reinvented for a new audience, Graeme Ross rounds up ...
This list contains notable cast members of the Gunsmoke radio and TV series, and TV movies. [1] The listing includes regular cast members, guest stars, and recurring cast members. Radio cast
Pages in category "1960s Western (genre) television series" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .