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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 "1950s Western (genre) television series" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 "1960s Western (genre) television series" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Cheyenne is an American Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1962. 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.
Fury (retitled Brave Stallion in syndicated reruns) is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to 1960. [1] It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey.
Pages in category "1950s American anthology television series" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 206 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
1955 saw the introduction of the adult Western television series with The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Gunsmoke, Cheyenne, and Frontier. [5] As an anthology series, it followed the format of Death Valley Days by focusing on realism of the stories, with less emphasis on outlaws and more focus on the rugged harshness of the West.