You covered all of my favorites, though a few were omitted, which would have extended the video to five hours or more. You also mentioned some that were new to me. Thanks
Chuck Connors' "The Rifleman" wore Wrangler jeans. Gunsmoke was all over the place historically. In the years that Matt Dillon was in Dodge, he should've been working with Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. During the cattle drive years, open-carry of firearms was banned in Dodge City and hardly any violent deaths occurred at all. In an early episode of Gunsmoke, Matt grudgingly released from jail an incorrigible soldier. The soldier's superior officer stated that the soldier was headed to the Little Big Horn area of Montana. That would've been circa 1876. (Many of the ironic twists of Gunsmoke were similar to that of another CBS show that ran during some of those early years, The Twilight Zone.) I think Rawhide was the most realistic western show. The writers made it quite clear how brutal, boring, and dangerous herding cattle was. The network westerns might've been entertaining, but they were whitewashed, inaccurate historical fluff.
x 2:40 Speaking of Stafford...when I was a grad student at the University of Missouri, I lived in Stafford Hall for a semester (the only on-campus place I lived at there). x 7:49 My name is Ben and in Hebrew it means "son."
Good presentation - thank you! I've watched every show mentioned here except The High Chaparral. The best ones in my opinion: Gunsmoke Rawhide The Son Deadwood Hell on Wheels The Rifleman started off good until it became the Little Boy's Show. They also didn't have a proper, good looking leading lady which is necessary for old shows of that era. Bonanza has become my pet hate. It should have been called The Ben Cartwright Show. Ben Cartwright was domineering in every aspect and mostly overbearing. I got the impression that the actresses who played the women he courted were slightly repulsed by him. Little Joe could jump on his horse and ride away and be a right brat, but that's all he could do. I liked Adam - but he left the show. My two favourite characters were Hoss and Hop Sing. Hoss because his chemistry with children was palpable and Hop Sing came to live toward the end.... too late, I'm afraid. The worst show I saw was The Lone Ranger. I am surprised the list does not include 1883 - I strongly recommend it!
Marshal Dillon was not a U.S. Marshal. He was the Town Marshal of Dodge City, a position like the town cop. U.S. Marshals did have authority in unincorporated areas of States and territories. Sheriffs had, as they do nowadays, responsibility for established county law enforcement.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp may well be the most historically inaccurate of all the TV westerns. Just one example is that Wyatt Earp was never the city marshal of either Dodge City or Tombstone.
Lol. Let alone Wyatt Earp was a outlaw. Boy could he spin a tell. People think he was a good guy only by his account. The fight at the Ok Coral was really a fight between two rival gangs . The Earps and the Cowboys.
In the 50’s and 60’s……the Hats men wore were Usually inaccurate. They Did Not fold up on the sides like so many did. Most cowboy hats were flat or had a Pencil Rim ( or Brim).
Just because they were living during the 1800s didn’t mean they didn’t have baths and decent clothes if your living in the times of the 1865 - 1890 era it was the rebuilding time from the civil war there were many great inventions and the west moved to a great period of not having to live in tents and mud huts if it’s a cowboy working a ranch you see they get gritty and dirty but go into town looking clean if it was a farmer or townsman the same thing just because it wasn’t how it is now you still had folks with morals and cleanliness look at today with all the modern technology you still have people who don’t clean themselves and dress ragged and you have most people who are clean
You covered all of my favorites, though a few were omitted, which would have extended the video to five hours or more. You also mentioned some that were new to me. Thanks
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Incredible video!
Good work.
Chuck Connors' "The Rifleman" wore Wrangler jeans. Gunsmoke was all over the place historically. In the years that Matt Dillon was in Dodge, he should've been working with Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. During the cattle drive years, open-carry of firearms was banned in Dodge City and hardly any violent deaths occurred at all. In an early episode of Gunsmoke, Matt grudgingly released from jail an incorrigible soldier. The soldier's superior officer stated that the soldier was headed to the Little Big Horn area of Montana. That would've been circa 1876. (Many of the ironic twists of Gunsmoke were similar to that of another CBS show that ran during some of those early years, The Twilight Zone.) I think Rawhide was the most realistic western show. The writers made it quite clear how brutal, boring, and dangerous herding cattle was. The network westerns might've been entertaining, but they were whitewashed, inaccurate historical fluff.
x 2:40 Speaking of Stafford...when I was a grad student at the University of Missouri, I lived in Stafford Hall for a semester (the only on-campus place I lived at there).
x 7:49 My name is Ben and in Hebrew it means "son."
Where's WAGON TRAIN?
My issues with the Lonesome Dove books and movies was the incorporation of many anachronistic historical figures.
Good presentation - thank you!
I've watched every show mentioned here except The High Chaparral. The best ones in my opinion:
Gunsmoke
Rawhide
The Son
Deadwood
Hell on Wheels
The Rifleman started off good until it became the Little Boy's Show. They also didn't have a proper, good looking leading lady which is necessary for old shows of that era.
Bonanza has become my pet hate. It should have been called The Ben Cartwright Show.
Ben Cartwright was domineering in every aspect and mostly overbearing. I got the impression that the actresses who played the women he courted were slightly repulsed by him.
Little Joe could jump on his horse and ride away and be a right brat, but that's all he could do.
I liked Adam - but he left the show.
My two favourite characters were Hoss and Hop Sing. Hoss because his chemistry with children was palpable and Hop Sing came to live toward the end.... too late, I'm afraid.
The worst show I saw was The Lone Ranger.
I am surprised the list does not include 1883 - I strongly recommend it!
Marshal Dillon was not a U.S. Marshal. He was the Town Marshal of Dodge City, a position like the town cop. U.S. Marshals did have authority in unincorporated areas of States and territories. Sheriffs had, as they do nowadays, responsibility for established county law enforcement.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp may well be the most historically inaccurate of all the TV westerns. Just one example is that Wyatt Earp was never the city marshal of either Dodge City or Tombstone.
that's completely wrong. He was Marshall in Dodge City and Assistant Marshall to his brother in Tombstone
Lol.
Let alone Wyatt Earp was a outlaw.
Boy could he spin a tell.
People think he was a good guy only by his account.
The fight at the Ok Coral was really a fight between two rival gangs . The Earps and the Cowboys.
He lived to be so old.He could tell the story anyway , he wanted it to be
You Forgot Death Valley Days!
No mention of Wagon Train.
The most historically accurate depiction of the hardship faced in the west was 1883.
They are tv shows, don't take them serious in anyway. If you do you live in fantasy
In the 50’s and 60’s……the Hats men wore were Usually inaccurate. They Did Not fold up on the sides like so many did. Most cowboy hats were flat or had a Pencil Rim ( or Brim).
All the old western shows have all these people wearing clean clothes, and shaved. Give me a break. Not a speck of dirt on any of them.
Just because they were living during the 1800s didn’t mean they didn’t have baths and decent clothes if your living in the times of the 1865 - 1890 era it was the rebuilding time from the civil war there were many great inventions and the west moved to a great period of not having to live in tents and mud huts if it’s a cowboy working a ranch you see they get gritty and dirty but go into town looking clean if it was a farmer or townsman the same thing just because it wasn’t how it is now you still had folks with morals and cleanliness look at today with all the modern technology you still have people who don’t clean themselves and dress ragged and you have most people who are clean
If they made a truly accurate ‘western’, it would probably be pretty boring.
Deadwood was realistic but the constant vile language was overdone.
Bonza a night time soap opera for limp wrist males.
none of this shows where worth watching.