Television Westerns

Hollywood made an extraordinary number of Western movies. With the advent of television, their popularity only increased. In fact, Westerns became the first genre that was copied over and over. Other genres emerged: family adventures, police and private detective dramas, medical dramas, sci-fi series, situation comedies and now reality TV.   Here are the Western series I remember.

The Roy Rogers Show

Gunsmoke

Bonanza

Laramie

Cheyenne

High Chaparral

Maverick

Marshall Dillon

Death Valley Days

Stagecoach

The Gunslinger

Have Guns Will Travel

Shotgun Slade

The Lone Ranger

Wagon Times

Rawhide

The Sons of Will Sonnet

The Virginians

Bat Masterson

The Westerner

Hopalong Cassidy

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Big Country

The Rifleman

Tales of Wells Cargo

Cisco Kid

Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Zane Grey Theater

Alias Smith and Jones

Rango

Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman

Walker, Texas Ranger

Little House on the Prarie