First off, from a slightly earlier era, Hoppy and Roy and the Lone Ranger.
MAVERICK HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL WANTED -- DEAD OR ALIVE THE REBEL WAGON TRAIN
There were just too many good, bad, and indifferent Westerns for me to keep up with. My wife is partial to YANCY DERRINGER; so much so she named her German Shepherd after him.
Westerns never died altogether. My favorite westerns of the last decade or so:
DEADWOOD PEACEMAKERS LEGACY (a UPN series that started poorly and improved considerably before its quick demise) THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (CBS's simultaneous offer) BROKEN TRAIL (if a two-parter gets to be a series...LONESOME DOVE being a bit too old, and its sequel series Not Quite good enough) MCLEOD'S DAUGHTERS (Australian contemporary "western") FIREFLY (by special pleading)
Oh. How could I forget THE CISCO KID? I caught those on reruns because I was so impressed with Duncan Renaldo after reading a piece about him in one of Jim Harmon's books. Great stuff!
And GUNSMOKE provided me with an off-color joke I used in high school.
We have friends that watch THE RIFLEMAN every day on some channel. TRACKDOWN is new to me. WWW was fun, wasn't it? Remember Roger Moore on Maverick. Beau Maverick, I think. He has blonde hair on a clip on you tube. GUNSMOKE was on too late at the time I watched these shows. Ten on a Saturday night, I think.
Rawhide, Laredo, Gunsmoke (the Chester years), Lawman, Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Maverick, Riverboat, Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey, Hopalong Cassidy, Annie Oakley, Jim Bowie, Yancy Derringer, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Rifleman, The Rebel, Colt .45, Tales of the Texas Rangers (The Early Years), 26 Men, Death Valley Days, and no doubt man more. If I may, it's Davy Crockett, no "e" in Davy.
I'd always wanted to see the television series LUCKY LUKE (1992) starring Terence Hill, based on Lucky Luke, the Belgian western comic-book series, by Maurice De Bevere (Morris). I could never my hands on it. I don't think it did too well.
At a conference once in Albuquerque, I met the world's greatest expert on GUNSMOKE on the radio. He had fascinating stories to tell about it. I don't remember anything on the radio other than music though. I will ask though.
William Conrad, who went on to later success as CANNON on television, played Matt Dillon on the radio but apparently did not fit the image they wanted for television. (He was too fat, to be frank.)
I watched it occasionally but it was usually on opposite something I preferred.
Well, Conrad was fat and short, but that didn't stop him from being scary as hell in THE KILLERS (first version). GUNSMOKE ran on CBS radio on Sundays at 6pm ET, iirc, by the end, in 1960 (CBS kept SUSPENSE and YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR on Sunday evenings till 1962...it was only a decade later they started up the weeknightly CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER, not long after Rod Serling's syndicated ZERO HOUR radio M-F strip began). As I've mentioned elsewhere, FT. LARAMIE (from the same producers) and THE SIX-SHOOTER were my other favorite radio westerns among the ones I've heard.
What's the Worst Thing That Can Happen, Al Tucher, A TWIST OF NOIR
The Good Doctor, Adam Haslett, YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE
Clouds in A Bunker, David Cranmer, PULP INK
Burning End, Ruth Rendell, THE BEST OF THE BEST SHORT STORIES 1986-1995
Something is Out There, Richard Bausch, MURDERLAND
Uncle, Daniel Woodrell, A HELL OF A WOMAN
Dark Adapted Eye, Katherine Tomlinson, SHOTGUN HONEY
Whiteout on Van Buren, Don Winslow, PHOENIX NOIR
An Invisble Minus Sign, Denise Mina, DEADLY HOUSEWIVES
Everything I Want, Megan Abbott, SPEED CHRONICLES
The Garage Sale of the Three Lindas, Marly Swick, THE SUMMER BEFORE THE SUMMER OF LOVE
Everybody Loves Somebody, Sandra Scoppettone, A HELL OF A WOMAN
Harpooned, Sandra Seamans, MYSTERICAL-E
Burn Patterns, Michael C. White MARKED MEN
World of Gas, Bonnie Jo Campbell AMERICAN SALVAGE
Snakes in the Briar Patch, Chad Eagleton, Cathode Angel
Sea of Grass, Jim Wilsky, ROSE AND THORN
The Pool, Keith Taylor from LIFE SENTENCES
Locked Out, Art Taylor, PLOTS WITH GUNS
Giving Blood, John Updike from THE MAPLES
Two and Half Miles, W.D. County, SPINETINGLER
ReBecca, Vicki Hendricks, FLORIDA GOTHIC STORIES
What is Your Emergency, Chris Rhatigan, GRIFT MAGAZINE
Here We Are in Paradise, Tony Earley
2. 984, 000 Pounds of Pressure, Anonymous Nine. Crime Factory: The First Shift
You Boys Be Good, Antonya Nelson
A Blunderbuss for a Broken Heart, Chris LeTray Pulp Modern 2
Spending Light, John Stickney, NEEDLE, Issue 2
365- February
A New Life, Kyle Minor, DISCOUNT NOIR
A Composer and His Parakeets, Ha Jin GOOD FALL
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, Joyce Carol Oates
Girls in Their Summer Dresses, Irwin Shaw
The Last Spin, Evan Hunter
The Birthday Party, Graham Greene
Blue, Rachel Seiffert, FIELD STUDY
Tonto Woman, Elmore Leonard, THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES
Only Good Ones, Elmore Leonard, THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES OF ELMORE LEONARD
Super Trooper, Nigel Bird, OFF THE RECORD
The Incident at Owls' Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
Food Man, Lisa Tuttle, BEST OF CRANK
The Babysitter's Code, Laura Lippman, PLOTS WITH GUNS
Graveyard Shift, James Reasoner, Hard-Boiled
Portrait of An American Family, Benoit Lelievre, SHOTGUN HONEY
Thanks for the Ride, Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades
A MAtter of Principal, Max Allan Collins, FAVORITE KILLS
Cold Snap, Thom Jones COLD SNAP
Piano Man, Bill Crider, ON DANGEROUS GROUND
The Ladder, Adrian McKinty, CRIME FACTORY: FIRST SHIFT
THe Confessor, Lonni Lees, SHOTGUN HONEY
Plaything, Daniel Hatadi, DEADLY TREATS
Going to Shrewsbury, Sarah Orne Jewett, THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS
Sunlight Nocturne, Bill Cameron, DEADLY TREATS
Escapes, Joy Williams, ESCAPES
Ugly Pictures, Terrie Moran, THE AWARENESS
Just Another Saturday Night, William Link, EQMM
Pride, P.J. Parrish, DETROIT NOIR
Bonus, Jim Ray Daniels, DETROIT TALES
Casanova Succumbs to Two-Ton Tina, Rob Kitchin, A TWIST OF NOIR
The Lost Child, Jean Thompson WHO DO YOU LOVE
365-March
365 March
Unfortunate Misfortunes of a Man Named Lud, John Weagly, FIRES ON THE PLAIN
Lamb to the Slaughter, Roal Dahl
The Navy Man, Kyle Minor, IN THE DEVIL'S TERRITORY
Cops and Robbers, Jean Stafford, MOTHERLOVE
Tort, Ken Bruen, EQMM
Melinda, Judy Doenges, O'HENRY AWARDS
Honeymoon, Arturo Vivante, SOLITUDE
Hard Rain, Katherine Tomlinson, NOHO NOIR
Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead, Joe Hill, THE LIVING DEAD
Death is Daily, Craig Garret , FIRES ON THE PLAIN
Ice, Lily Tuck, 2011 O'Henry Collection
The Basher, Jason Starr, Wall Street Noir
Your Fate Hurtles Down at You, Jim Shepard, 2011 O'Henry Collection
The Neglected Garden, Kathe Koja, WEIRD STORIES
Windeye, Brian Evenson, 2011 O'HENRY COLLECTION
Triangulation, Anonymous-9, THE BIG CLICK
The Genius, Frank O'Connor
Why I Live at the PO, Eudora Welty
How to Talk To Your Mother, Lorrie Moore, SELF HELP
Jungle Bob, Ron Scheer, FIRES ON THE PLAIN
Last Song of Antietam, Patrick Lambe, ON DANGEROUS GROUND
On the Gull's Road, Willa Cather
Leaf in the Wind, Gene Wolfe, STORIES
Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively
Ember Days, Nick Ripatrazone, PLOTS WITH GUNS
The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck
Stay Awake, Dan Chaon, STAY AWAKE
Smantha's Diary, Diana Wynne Jones, STORIES
Unwell, Carolyn Parkhurst, STORIES, (Gaiman and Sarrantonio)
Naked Angel, Joe Lansdale, L.A. NOIRE
The Bees, Dan Chaon, STAY AWAKE
Blue Rose, Peter Straub
365 -April
Land of the Lost, Stewart O'Nan, STORIES Push Comes to Shove, B.V. Lawson, NEEDLE What He Was Like, William Maxwell, Running Hard, R. Thomas Brown, ALL DUE RESPECT Mr. & Mrs. Dove, Katherine Mansfield (online) The Beginning of Grief, Adam Haslett Family Ties, Craig McDonald, GRIFT Rosie's Chicken & Biscuits, Axel Howerton, FIRE ON THE PLAINS Not Quite Final, Richard Bausch, Who Has Seen the Wind, Carson McCullers, Confession, Stella Pope Duarte, PHOENIX NOIR Bonanza, Jo Ann Beard, THE BOYS OF MY YOUTH Flying Solo, Ed Gorman, DAMN NEAR DEAD 2 Triage, Alice Elliott Dark She Don't Eat No Meat, Kurt Gowran, NEEDLE No Rest for the Weary, Sandra Seamans, FOTP The Traveler, Wallace Stegner, THE COLLECTED STORIES Mortals, Tobias Wolff, THE NIGHT IN QUESTION Here Comes Santa Claus, Bill Pronzini Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed, Robert Olen Butler, He Loved Her So Much, Sandra Scoppettone, LOVE KILLS How to Become a Writer, Lorrie Moore, SELF HELP I Danced with the Prettiest Girl, Dagoberto Gilb, Zolaria, Caitlin Horrocks, THIS IS NOT YOUR CITY The Squatter, Andy Henion, PLOTS WITH GUNS Romero's Shirt, Dagoberto Gilb, THE MAGIC OF BLOOD Pie Dance, Molly Giles, YOU'VE GOTTA READ THIS. Greatness Strikes Where it Pleases, Lars Gustaffson The Infamous Bengal Ming, Rajesh Parameswaran, A Hand on the Shoulder, Ian McEwan, THE NEW YORKER A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor Hard Times, Ron Rash, BURNING BRIGHT Peconic Nightmares, R. Thomas Brown, BEAT TO A PULP The Best of Everything, Richard Yates
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Yep, Maverick would be at the top of my list, too. But I loved almost all of the western shows with the notable exception of - gasp! - Gunsmoke.
Have Gun, Will Travel
Maverick
Wanted - Dead or Alive
Lawman
Jeff M.
Have Gun, Will Travel
Gunsmoke
Cheyenne
SUGARFOOT was another favorite. And CHEYENNE.
First off, from a slightly earlier era, Hoppy and Roy and the Lone Ranger.
MAVERICK
HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
WANTED -- DEAD OR ALIVE
THE REBEL
WAGON TRAIN
There were just too many good, bad, and indifferent Westerns for me to keep up with. My wife is partial to YANCY DERRINGER; so much so she named her German Shepherd after him.
Westerns never died altogether. My favorite westerns of the last decade or so:
DEADWOOD
PEACEMAKERS
LEGACY (a UPN series that started poorly and improved considerably before its quick demise)
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (CBS's simultaneous offer)
BROKEN TRAIL (if a two-parter gets to be a series...LONESOME DOVE being a bit too old, and its sequel series Not Quite good enough)
MCLEOD'S DAUGHTERS (Australian contemporary "western")
FIREFLY (by special pleading)
Oh. How could I forget THE CISCO KID? I caught those on reruns because I was so impressed with Duncan Renaldo after reading a piece about him in one of Jim Harmon's books. Great stuff!
And GUNSMOKE provided me with an off-color joke I used in high school.
It's MAVERICK and James Garner, HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL and the underrated Richard Boone would be my second pick.
I have a soft spot in my heart for THE RIFLEMAN, which was in reruns every day right after school when I was growing up.
Even though I'm not old enough to watch the first runs, I love watching The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, and Daniel Boone
Oh and Davey Crockett.
WILD WILD WEST
MAVERICK
GUNSMOKE
TRACKDOWN
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
The Early BONANZA before the slapstick of the later years
We have friends that watch THE RIFLEMAN every day on some channel.
TRACKDOWN is new to me. WWW was fun, wasn't it? Remember Roger Moore on Maverick. Beau Maverick, I think. He has blonde hair on a clip on you tube. GUNSMOKE was on too late at the time I watched these shows. Ten on a Saturday night, I think.
Rawhide, Laredo, Gunsmoke (the Chester years), Lawman, Wyatt Earp, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Maverick, Riverboat, Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey, Hopalong Cassidy, Annie Oakley, Jim Bowie, Yancy Derringer, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Rifleman, The Rebel, Colt .45, Tales of the Texas Rangers (The Early Years), 26 Men, Death Valley Days, and no doubt man more.
If I may, it's Davy Crockett, no "e" in Davy.
Did I forget Have Gun, Will Travel? Shame on me. Also Wagon Train, Branded, and Shotgun Slade.
I'd always wanted to see the television series LUCKY LUKE (1992) starring Terence Hill, based on Lucky Luke, the Belgian western comic-book series, by Maurice De Bevere (Morris). I could never my hands on it. I don't think it did too well.
Patti, you might ask sometime if anyone was around to remember radio westerns: GUNSMOKE, CISCO KID, GENE AUTRY.
At a conference once in Albuquerque, I met the world's greatest expert on GUNSMOKE on the radio. He had fascinating stories to tell about it. I don't remember anything on the radio other than music though. I will ask though.
William Conrad, who went on to later success as CANNON on television, played Matt Dillon on the radio but apparently did not fit the image they wanted for television. (He was too fat, to be frank.)
I watched it occasionally but it was usually on opposite something I preferred.
Jeff M.
Well, Conrad was fat and short, but that didn't stop him from being scary as hell in THE KILLERS (first version). GUNSMOKE ran on CBS radio on Sundays at 6pm ET, iirc, by the end, in 1960 (CBS kept SUSPENSE and YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR on Sunday evenings till 1962...it was only a decade later they started up the weeknightly CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER, not long after Rod Serling's syndicated ZERO HOUR radio M-F strip began). As I've mentioned elsewhere, FT. LARAMIE (from the same producers) and THE SIX-SHOOTER were my other favorite radio westerns among the ones I've heard.
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