What's Your Favorite TV Western?

[arwalden]

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.

[Wcross]

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.

[mitchum]

25. Do they still cut out Hop Sing's scenes?

I bet that Victor Sen Yung's estate is pissed about losing the royalties.

[terrya]

2. "The Wild Wild West"

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. :-)

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Yeah, Wild West was pretty good

the movie sucked though. Except the giant spider. Because spiders are the most efficient killers in nature.

[sakabatou]

3. Trigun

[TimeChaser]

14. Does that count?

[sakabatou]

16. It should

[mitchum]

4. "Have Gun, Will Travel"

man, I wanted to be Paladin when I grew up. Wear black, read Keats, shoot people...

[Fenris]

5. "Rawhide," followed closely by "Gunsmoke"

"Rawhide" wins because of the Eastwood factor. ;)

[rug]

7. Branded

[Rowdyboy]

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?"

[rug]

22. Yup.

Then they took all his buttons.

[mitchum]

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.

[hyphenate]

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.

[libnnc]

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:

[Notoverit]

10. Other: Deadwood

[Floogeldy]

11. "The Guns Of Will Sonnett"

With Walter Brennan. I get choked up just thinking about it.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Other: "Alias Smith and Jones."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066625/

[Nicole]

13. Rawhide because I had a crush on young Clint Eastwood

:loveya:

[mykpart]

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."

[Rocinante]

17. Bonanza

I wish Adam got along better with Hoss and Little Joe though. My parents were devastated when Adam left the show.

[gr8dane_daddy]

18. Grew up watching Gunsmoke with my dad...

memories.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Bonanza!

[donheld]

20. Four guys alone on a huge ranch...

plus a whole lot of male ranch hands. It's a gay man's dream.

[Wcross]

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.

[BikeWriter]

29. All their love interests were victims of the "CartWright Syndrome".

It was always fatal!

[mitchum]

27. And didn't the show later introduce a "cowpoke" named Candy?

Candy????!!!!

[Left Is Write]

24. Two words: Robert Conrad

[haydukelives]

28. Gunsmoke

ROCKS

[Telly Savalas]

30. Does "Kung Fu" count?

[DanCa]

31. Whos t he tall dark stranger there Maverick is his name. (nt)

[BrotherBuzz]

32. Sky King

[Dave Sund]

33. Fuck, you forgot Deadwood...

Motherfuckin' cocksucker! It's the best fuckin' western on television!

;)

[saltpoint]

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.

[Fridays Child]

35. Does Foreman Scotty and the Circle 4 Ranch count?

Okay, it was a local kids' show in Oklahoma City but, still....