He's faster than his brother.......

[rwsmith]

....and I'm faster than both of 'em. No brag. Jes fact.


I was sitting here working some chess problems and some shows came to mind that I really liked. "The Guns of Will Sonnet" and "Branded". I thought that was one of the best parts Walter Brennan played. And "The Rifleman" playing a "coward" was a real switch. That opening where he was drummed out was downright eerie with that music. She-ee-ee!

Another one was "Kentucky Jones". I always liked Dennis Weaver and that was good part. And the little boy was cool.

"Palladin" was a favorite though I was too young to really appreciate the depth of it. It was 'different', and like another series Gene Rodenberry wrote for "Too good for TV" Of course it had a great theme song like any great western should. Another thing about Richard Boone. He could play the BEST 'bad guys' out there. "Big Jake", "The Shootist", but especially Grimes in "Hombre". It make me wonder what anybody would do if they got crossed up with him.

I really liked "The Rebel" as a kid, but I wonder how it would hold up as an adult. I'm thinking not too good. There was one scene I remember distinctly. He was trying to get sense out of a suppposed 'crazy' man when the guy had his back to him and started laughing like a banshee. When he turned around and moved out of the way there was a war painted Indian in the window.

Any more reminders out there?

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I remember the show but not that one.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I'm still tring to figutre out how the heck they got a western out with

Barbara Stanwink, in it ?

 

[yaktamer]

I'm still tring to figutre out how the heck they got a western out with

Barbara Stanwink, in it ?

Anybody remember that episode of The Big Valley where Nick lost his temper?

 

[rwsmith]

All I remember about the Big Valley....

Anybody remember that episode of The Big Valley where Nick lost his temper?

...was some blonde, Linda somebody......

 

[Greyman50]

Sky King and Sea Hunt….

 

[WR Moore]

Captain Video, Death Valley Days, Tombstone(?)-"the town too tought to die"...... maybe I can think of others. There was a good cop show with Dennis Farina as lead.

 

[Chuck24]

Unfortunately, many of these old shows didn’t have a long enough run to make syndication practical. They usually want at least five years. When you take a weekly show and put it on every day, it doesn’t take long to go through all of them.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Still watching " Tales of Wells Fargo" starring Dale Roberson.........His Horse on the show was "Jubilee".......Personally owned and trained by him

The opening scene on Gunsmoke where Orvo Ojala shoots Dillon first!!!!!

 

[Doug627]

Lawman starring John Russell. He played the same character in the movie Pale Rider but had gone bad.

 

[rwsmith]

Oh man....

Lawman starring John Russell. He played the same character in the movie Pale Rider but had gone bad.

How could I forget that one...

o/' The Lawman came with the sun.
There was a job to be done
and so they sent for the badge and the gun
of the the Lawman o/'

I thought they said, "So they sent for the man with the gun" hmmmm

 

[Yaworski]

Big Jake is one of my least favorite movies. At the end, he just says, "Let's go home." Not a word about his friend who was gunned down. Not even, "Go check on the Indian . . ."

 

[fordson]

Old TV Westerners when we were kids? ……….let’s see….
Maverick,
Cheyanne,
Wanted: Dead or Alive,
Johnny Yuma - The Rebel,
Sugar Foot,
Wagon Train,
Palladian,…
..these are the few that come to mind in the first minute or so ……..all that gun play, all that shooting, all those people with guns……. all that violence…….And we turned out fairly normal (?)……..… how can that be…. Defies all the current research……

 

[Doug627]

Best of them all? Gunsmoke

 

[rwsmith]

I like the OLD......

Best of them all? Gunsmoke

I like the OLD Gunsmokes. Grittier, more realistic.

Dodge City got kinda posh as the episodes went along. And Miss Kitty got more respectable.

 

[DWalt]

My favorite episode of HG-WT was the one where Paladin hired a chemist to make up some smokeless powder to load his cartridges with. This was probably set in a period at least 10 years before anyone else invented smokeless powder.

 

[Golddollar]

There was a good cop show with Dennis Farina as lead.

I remember that. I think it was called "Crime Story." Del Shannon's song "Runaway" was the theme song. Dennis Farina had actually been a cop before he was an actor.

 

[sceva]

Walter Brennan: I watched two old movies with him The Westerner where he played Judge Roy Bean and an odd WWII movie called Hangman also Die where he played a professor in a very different than usual role..

 

[Nevada Ed]

Don't for get

Hoppy and the Cisco kid.

As a youngster I always thought that Bob Steel was cool looking,
be he good or be he, the bad guy bad, in black.

Gab Nab it, how could I have forgotten old Gabby?

 

[rwsmith]

The Tycoon.....

Walter Brennan: I watched two old movies with him The Westerner where he played Judge Roy Bean and an odd WWII movie called Hangman also Die where he played a professor in a very different than usual role..

W.B. played in a one season show, 'The Tycoon'. I didn't think the show was all that great, but for some reason I watched it. I remember one Christmas I got a 'Phantom Raider', a ship that was a freighter that converted into a ship armed with missiles, torpedoes and depth charges. In one of the episodes, they made the toy that was too close to a real project the government was supposedly working on.