...beacuse it's almost Saturday and I watch this now like I did when I was ten.

Now that I’m retired I watch all the early westerns in the morning while drinking my coffee. Watching Wanted Dead or Alive right now with Steve McQueen. Before that it was The Cheyenne Show with Clint Walker and the Maverick with James Garner. Next is Paladin with Richard Boone. Then Rawhide and the High Chaparell.

It’s amazing how many well known actors are in these shows when they were very young. Especially Gunsmoke. Apparently everyone in Hollywood went through Gunsmoke. It must have been a right of passage. Gunsmoke and The Rifleman are two of my favorites. If you watch the credits after the Rifleman you will see Sam Peckinpah directed a few of these.

LOVE those shows - watch them all - especially like that they are in B + W .

Paladin, Cheyenne, Rifleman, Gun Smoke, Maverick just name a few.

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It’s amazing how many well known actors are in these shows when they were very young. ...

Most of the shows were much like "fast food and casual dining restaurants" are to "Fine Dining", everybody started off "slinging hash and dropping plates", and there a small handful of "regular" actors to go around.

But most of those who stuck to it are to our benefit, and that we see some really great performances that turned otherwise dull and boring shows into memorable and classic entertainment, and later, some really great movies.

Here in the Yoop, you can see most of the old westerns on METv, the channel for old farts. And lots of other old shows too.
Cannon. Mannix. Outer Limits. Perry Mason. Highway Patrol. 77 Sunset Strip. For a while they were running the 30 minute episodes of Gunsmoke, too.
I love the old cars on the 50s shows.

I love watching these old Westerns. We have MeTV and INSP here. INSP shows pretty much nothing but Westerns all day.

The last time we were in Cody, WY, we took a trolley ride through town. Near the end of the trip, the guide would play a western theme song and would hand out wooden nickels to whomever go the name of the show right.

My win was on the Rifleman theme song, but I guessed right on all five songs.

Spent many a Saturday afternoon in my youth watching old westerns with my dad. The tattoo on my right leg is a tribute to my favorite show, Have Gun Will Travel. The one oddball show (for me anyway) was Sky King, I enjoyed it, but seemed out of place in a block of westerns!

I really miss good western shows and I am Gen-X!

Really enjoy watching MeTV and INSP. Lot's of old westerns on both.

Besides watching these shows, I was always impressed and loved their original theme music. Nothing compares these days.

The eternal question is: How many shot does he fire in the opening sequence? There are 2 correct answers - the mechancal answer and film answer.

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The eternal question is: How many shot does he fire in the opening sequence? There are 2 correct answers - the mechancal answer and film answer.

straight from memory, if I recall correctly it was 7? As kids, my brothers and I used to watch The Rifleman. One of my Bros recently purchased the series on DVD, and planning to binge a bunch of episodes when I visit him next!