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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 05:12 PM
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Poll question: What's Your Favorite TV Western?
It's almost a tie for my top choices: Gunsmoke and Bonanza... but Bonanza wins by a hair. I enjoyed Bonanza as a child... until I was about 13. I never enjoyed watching Gunsmoke until I re-discovered it recently on its reruns on TV-Land.
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 05:19 PM
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1. I am on a quest to watch EVERY episode of Bonanza.
I tivo it on TVland. I hope they are going to actually SHOW all the episodes. For some reason I never watched it as a child, I guess Mom and Dad weren't big Bonanza fans.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 10:14 PM
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25. Do they still cut out Hop Sing's scenes?
I bet that Victor Sen Yung's estate is pissed about losing the royalties.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 05:23 PM
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2. "The Wild Wild West"
Edited on Sun Apr-23-06 05:23 PM by terrya
1) Gadgets

2) Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon

3) Cool villians (Michael Dunn as Dr. Loveless was great, and as I recall, Agnes Moorehead was a guest villain in one episode)

4) Robert Conrad, frequently shirtless, in the TIGHTEST pants.

Not necessarily in that order. :-)
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 10:27 PM
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6. Yeah, Wild West was pretty good
the movie sucked though. Except the giant spider. Because spiders are the most efficient killers in nature.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 05:27 PM
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3. Trigun
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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 02:09 AM
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14. Does that count?
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 02:22 AM
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16. It should
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 10:19 PM
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4. "Have Gun, Will Travel"
man, I wanted to be Paladin when I grew up. Wear black, read Keats, shoot people...
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 10:24 PM
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5. "Rawhide," followed closely by "Gunsmoke"
"Rawhide" wins because of the Eastwood factor. ;)
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 10:30 PM
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7. Branded
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 06:59 AM
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21. "All but one man died, there at Bitter Creek....


"All but one man died
There at Bitter Creek
And they say he ran away.

Branded, marked with a coward's shame,
What do you do when you're branded,
Will you fight for your name?"
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 05:03 PM
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22. Yup.
Then they took all his buttons.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 10:18 PM
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26. And broke his sword...leaving him to wander around the west...
with a broken sword in his scabbard. Hmmm...
That along with all of the episodes where Connors was stripped to the waist and horsewhipped, made for some interesting television.
I love "Branded" for for its out and out freakiness.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 10:30 PM
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8. Even though it is more fantasy
than western, my favorite is Wild Wild West. My second favorite isn't even listed: Alias Smith and Jones. Third has to probably be Maverick, but mostly because of Roger Moore's times as Beau Maverick.

I can't say I really got too much into westerns after I started high school, except for AS&J. But then, I was an angst ridden teenager when Pete Duel died.
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 10:45 PM
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9. The Big Valley
Barbara Stanwyck at 60 years old in black leather doing her own stunts :wow: now THAT was must see tee-vee!

On the other hand, I can do without Linda Evans and the attack of the baby-blue eyeshadow :eyes:
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Notoverit Donating Member (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 11:35 PM
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10. Other: Deadwood
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 11:43 PM
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11. "The Guns Of Will Sonnett"
With Walter Brennan. I get choked up just thinking about it.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-23-06 11:48 PM
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12. Other: "Alias Smith and Jones."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066625/
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 01:25 AM
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13. Rawhide because I had a crush on young Clint Eastwood
:loveya:
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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 02:14 AM
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15. Maverick, but only the episodes with James Garner.
Never like Jack Kelly. Although, it's also fun to watch The Rifleman and count how many times Johnny Crawford says "Pa."
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Rocinante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 02:30 AM
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17. Bonanza
I wish Adam got along better with Hoss and Little Joe though. My parents were devastated when Adam left the show.
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gr8dane_daddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 02:39 AM
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18. Grew up watching Gunsmoke with my dad...
memories.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 02:43 AM
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19. Bonanza!
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 06:06 AM
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20. Four guys alone on a huge ranch...
plus a whole lot of male ranch hands. It's a gay man's dream.
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Wcross Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 08:08 PM
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23. There were lot of "romance" episodes.
Every Cartwright had a love intrest from time to time. Ranch hands should have been women? I think the show was a product of corporate television from the 60's. If one of the boys got married it would have ruined it.
Now if Adam or little joe moved into the bunkhouse I would have questions.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 11:19 PM
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29. All their love interests were victims of the "CartWright Syndrome".
It was always fatal!
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 10:21 PM
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27. And didn't the show later introduce a "cowpoke" named Candy?
Candy????!!!!
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 08:16 PM
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24. Two words: Robert Conrad
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haydukelives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-24-06 10:43 PM
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28. Gunsmoke
ROCKS
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:02 AM
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30. Does "Kung Fu" count?
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:10 AM
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31. Whos t he tall dark stranger there Maverick is his name. (nt)
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 12:20 AM
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32. Sky King
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Dave Sund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 01:17 AM
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33. Fuck, you forgot Deadwood...
Motherfuckin' cocksucker! It's the best fuckin' western on television!

;)
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 01:36 AM
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34. Haven't watched tv westerns for a while, but they were all over the
place when I was growing up. People used to watch them and took them for actual history!

Anyway, I never paid much attention to Chuck Conners in THE RIFLEMAN until he showed up, years later, in A WEDDING, the film by Robert Altman. I think his only spoken part is:

"Hell, I'll walk through your goddamn line."

He carries it off so perfectly I at first could not believe it was Chuck Conners.

So Chuck, this vote's for you.

One vote for THE RIFLEMAN.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 02:32 AM
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35. Does Foreman Scotty and the Circle 4 Ranch count?
Okay, it was a local kids' show in Oklahoma City but, still....
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