I've been watching old western tv shows lately and they're pretty good!

[Wilmer Digreux]

Wanted Dead or Alive, Lawman, Have Gum Will Travel, The High Chaparral, Rawhide, Maverick, etc.

i never cared anything about these old shows but now that i've been checking them out, they are all WAY better than i figured. Seriously these are good short stories and i can see why they were so popular with our parents and grandparents. And i gotta say it's refreshing to go back in time (1950's and 60's) and watch men act like men. That's something we're missing in a lot of modern entertainment.

Anybody else watch these old shows?





edit - i was watching one of these a few days ago, and on The High Chaparral ( i think that's what it was) there was a dangerous gunslinger posing as a dentist, riding around in a wagon with a giant tooth hanging on a rope off the side. Having seen Django Unchained i immediately realized where Tarantino got the idea for Christoph Waltz's tooth wagon....lol. i thought that was cool.



Django

High Chaparral

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Only western TV show i can recall watching was Wild Wild West, my father was obsessed with that show when I was growing up.

 

[THEfightsAREfixed]

tarantino is a relentless plagiarizer

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

Only western TV show i can recall watching was Wild Wild West, my father was obsessed with that show when I was growing up.

i haven't watched any of that yet. i heard it was good.

And yeah it's kinda the same with my dad. i can name 1 little thing about any of those shows and he knows exactly which show i'm talking about. That gen loved this stuff. And i think watching these gives me a little insight as to what it was like for previous generations when they were growing up.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I watch a lot of the old westerns and sci fi shows from the 50's and 60's on the retro tv channels like ME TV, all day long on Saturdays its old western shows like the ones you named and then all night its a sci fi marathon with the Svengoolie creature feature movie and then shows like Star Trek, Lost In Space, Time Tunnel(my favorite) and The Powers Of Matthew Star

I also enjoy watching the old game shows from the 70's and 80's, its a fun snapshot into the pop culture of the day with all the weird products they offer as prizes and all the current topics they reference in their conversations, plus all the casual racism and sexism, everyone on the show is usually drunk too so the jokes and interactions can get wild at times

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

tarantino is a relentless plagiarizer

he's a hack fraud with a foot fetish. probably guilty of some weinsteining too.

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

I watch a lot of the old westerns and sci fi shows from the 50's and 60's on the retro tv channels like ME TV, all day long on Saturdays its old western shows like the ones you named and then all night its a sci fi marathon with the Svengoolie creature feature movie and then shows like Star Trek, Lost In Space, Time Tunnel(my favorite) and The Powers Of Matthew Star

I also enjoy watching the old game shows from the 70's and 80's, its a fun snapshot into the pop culture of the day with all the weird products they offer as prizes and all the current topics they reference in their conversations, plus all the casual racism and sexism, everyone on the show is usually drunk too so the jokes and interactions can get wild at times

yeah i watch metv and h&i and they're probably my favorite channels now

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

plus all the casual racism and sexism,

i just caught this part. come on pete, don't be a modern "man" throwing around words that end in '-ism.'

 

[Spam On Rye]

Gunsmoke is king. Rawhide is solid. Fucking hate Bonanza. My boomer uncle has legit been watching the same 20 Gunsmoke episodes over and over again for 10 years since his retirement.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Gunsmoke is a king. Rawhide is solid. Fucking hate Bonanza. My boomer uncle has legit been watching the same 20 Gunsmoke episodes over and over again for 10 years since his retirement.

 

[Wilmer Digreux]

Gunsmoke is a king. Rawhide is solid. Fucking hate Bonanza. My boomer uncle has legit been watching the same 20 Gunsmoke episodes over and over again for 10 years since his retirement.

I still haven't watched any Gunsmoke. Rawhide is solid tho.

 

[Bubzeh]

Bonanza is entertaining too, albeit slightly repetitive.

 

[DanSavage]

I recently watched the first six seasons of The Virginian. I had never watched it before.

What made that show unusual for its time was that while most TV shows at the time ran for either 30 or 60 minutes, episodes of The Virginian ran for 90 minutes.

The show attracted major motion pictures stars because it allowed them to fully develop the characters they played as it was more like a movie than an episode of a TV show.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Let me know if you can get through one episode of Hee Haw.

Ruined cowboy shit for me until Tombstone.

 

[CrimsonFan]

Get outta dodge!

Gunsmoke is the best of the bunch.

I used to watch it with my grandfather. It held up for me even as a 90s kid. Still put it on from time to time for the memories.

 

[Pittie Petey]

i just caught this part. come on pete, don't be a modern "man" throwing around words that end in '-ism.'

Ole Pete says what he wants to say, if it bothers you too fucking bad

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[Beechwood]

I never could get into the older western TV shows. Some of the older western movies though are entertaining. Not long ago i watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance again and enjoyed it once more.