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Colt .45 (also known as The Colt Cousins) is an American Western television series, originally starring Wayde Preston, which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960. [ 1 ] The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name , starring Randolph Scott .
The Shadow Riders is a 1982 American Western television film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Dominique Dunne, and Katharine Ross.Based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour, the film is about two brothers who meet up after fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War and return home only to find their siblings kidnapped by ruthless raiders.
The episode drew the highest viewership of the series. [citation needed] Preston played some 20 roles in television and films from 1957 to 1991. Following his departure from Colt .45, he went to Europe, where he appeared in numerous Spaghetti Westerns, including A Man Called Sledge and the 1968 film Anzio, about the World War II Battle of Anzio.
Tom Selleck in 'Magnum, P.I.' in 1981 and on the set of 'Blue Bloods' in June 2024 Tom Selleck opened up recently about his discomfort with his runaway stardom in the 1980s.
Tom Selleck is revealing his honest reaction to Blue Bloodscoming to an end. In an interview with TV Insider , the actor, 79, opened up about the show ending after nearly 15 years of him playing ...
Thomas William Selleck [1] (/ ˈ s ɛ l ɪ k /; born January 29, 1945) [2] [3] is an American actor. His breakout role was playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988), for which he received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, winning in 1985.
Selleck said he stuck to his word, only traveling to set after his daughter was out of the hospital. But he admits it “wasn’t worth it.” “It was never going to be worth it,” Selleck insists.
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.