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Little House on the Prairie (TV series) (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "1970s Western (genre) television series" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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.
How the West Was Won is an American Western television series that starred James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, and Richard Kiley.Loosely based on the 1962 Cinerama film of the same name, it began with a two-hour television film, The Macahans, in 1976, followed by a mini-series in 1977, and a regular series in 1978 and 1979.
Sure, bell bottoms and disco balls ruled the '70s, but if you grew up on Maude's sharp one-liners or George Jefferson's iconic strut, then you know that it was also one of the best decades for tele.
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.
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western television series that originally aired on ABC from January 1971 to January 1973. The show initially starred Pete Duel (and, after Duel's death, Roger Davis ) as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, outlaw cousins who are trying to reform.
Try these Western TV shows and family dramas. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY. Updated December 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM. John Dutton (Kevin Costner) may be gone, but the hunger for "Yellowstone" drama lives on.
Bearcats! is an American Western television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the fall 1971 television season.It starred Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole as troubleshooters in the period before the American entry into World War I (1917).