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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.
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.
The Lone Ranger is an American Western television series that aired on the ABC Television network from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role. Jay Silverheels, a member of the Mohawk Aboriginal people in Canada, played the Lone Ranger's Indian companion Tonto.
The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio , which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bros. original ...
Broken Arrow is a Western television series that ran on ABC-TV in prime time from September 25, 1956, through September 18, 1960. [1] The show was based on the 1947 novel Blood Brothers, by Elliott Arnold, which had been made into a film in 1950, starring James Stewart as Tom Jeffords and Jeff Chandler playing as Cochise.
The show was a production of Gene Autry's Flying A Productions, [5] and Autry himself was the executive producer, along with Louis Gray. Producers were Hugh McCollum and Armand Schaefer . Directors were George Archainbaud , William Berke , Thomas Carr , Wallace Fox , D. Ross Lederman , Frank McDonald , Donald McDougall, and Ray Nazarro .
Buffalo Bill, Jr. is a half-hour Western television series that aired in syndication [1] starting in March 1955. [2] The last new episode was broadcast in September 1956. [3] The series was produced by Gene Autry's Flying A Productions, and distributed by CBS Television Film Sales. [4]