You two could write the complete history of TV Westerns. It would probably be a 10 volume boxed publication.😊 Thanks for sharing your interview with Mr Bob Terry. He's the "real deal". You're both "genuine" gentlemen. 👍👍👏👏🇺🇲🇺🇲
I've been watching both Word on Westerns and Westerns on the Web for the old Western films and TV shows being a fan of them this is really awesome thanks Rob and Bob have a great week thank you.🤠🇺🇲🐴
Listening in to two nerds that are even bigger nerds than yourself is just the greatest thing! Rob, you should do a segment about parents who throw out their kid's toys! My mum trashed out all my action figures of the European westerns (Lex Barker, Pierre Brice AND their horses). Priceless collector's items today! 😭
My two favorite You Tube hosts. A Word On Westerns and Westerns On The Web! Rob thank you for your show. The memories just come rushing in with every episode! Just loved this episode. God bless you Rob . By the way. I love your hat! Take care now!
Really enjoyed the show, I purchased a replica Hopalong Cassidy 44 six shooter online back in the early 2000's. I don't recall from where, but probably from Bob. Great we'll made cap gun, thanks Bob and Rob
I am now 73 and I approve of this episode...!!! At one time I had a derringer that fit onto a gun belt buckle and when I put the gun belt on and pushed my stomach out, it would make the little derringer pop out and fire a little plastic bullet. That was cool...!!!
Hi Rob, as a kid kid in 1961 who had the yellow Rifleman lunch box, I enjoyed this interview. It was pretty beat-up after a year with a broken thermos, and was sadly discarded with only a year in service.......wish I had it today.....Good interview,,,⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lot of childhood memories from the opening scenes. First TV western outfit me and bro got was Wyatt Earp -- hat, jacket and pants. Then, next Christmas, a Paladin two gun holster set (Paladin always carried one gun), sans derringer but with calling cards, which my dad got a big laugh out of. Also got a Zorro outfit (bro got a Superman outfit), a half scale mare's leg, and a very realistic looking Colt pistol. One of the best was my Bat Masterson get up: Cane, gun and holster, and a very "loud" gold satin vest with black stars (?) -- no derby that I can recall. Kudos to Bob Terry for continuing the tradition of creating childhood memories that can last a lifetime. Thanks for the interview, Rob.
@@AWordonWesterns Most well read, too. Among the many gooks we got were a Wild Bill Hickok bio, a Jim Bowie bio, a Pony Express history (my fave), Guns of the Old West, and more, I'm sure, that I can't recall at the moment. I think both our dads wanted to instill the love they had for the old west into their sons, and both succeeded at it.
Morton Fine and David Friedkin (both of whom later worked on I Spy and very briefly The Virginian) wrote the Frontier episode that y'all discussed (with Chuck Connors as the Tom Hornesque Thorpe Henderson).
I was shopping in the Ginza in Japan in 1971 and came across a booth that contained special blank-firing metal and wood replicas of just about every Hollywood gun a teenager could imagine. One of them was a Josh Randall mare's leg Winchester 92 with the leather belt and skeletonized holster. I didn't have enough cash to buy more than one prop gun, so I settled for a 1921 Thompson like Sergeant Saunders carried in Combat! Today you can buy real live-firing clones of the Mare's Leg, so the dream lives on. All you need is a wanted poster.
Fantastic stuff Rob I watch the forsaken westerns on u tube, I never knew how amazing and talented Bob is . God bless you both for your great work ! Keeps this armchair quarterback cowpoke alive lol
TV WESTERNS, boy could I debate you guys Rob... I've mentioned this before, but growing-up in Britain during the 1950's we got many of the TV westerns at the same time as you did, only we only had two channels to watch them on... In the 1959 season there were 48 westerns on TV most being half-hour, easier to sell and more profitable. The biggest producersin prime time were MCA-Revue, Four Star, Warner Brothers and CBS. ZIV and Desilu would be next, and Gene Autry and Jack Wrather would dominate the rest of the day. Of Course in the early days there was Hopalong Cassidy and he was the first into mertchandising, followed by Wrather with the Lone Ranger and Disney with Davey Crockett. Later on, all the shows were merchandising everything. What made the TV Westerns so popular was because they were all morality plays with clearly defined good guys and bad guys, and they were easy and cheap to make. It was a true HOLLYWOOD assembly-line that made use of all the western sets on backlots and movie ranches. IVERSONS ranch was the most used often with four or more companies shooting on their 500 acres out by Chatsworth. In that area you had Corriganville, Bell, Spahn and other ranches nearby. Roy Rogers had his Double-R-Bar ranch at the foot of the Santa Susanna Pass, and even the railroad going through it was used in numerous westerns with the studios using their own period trains. In short, B-Westerns became TV Westerns and they used the very same crews and actors. Whatever the show they used the very same formula having memorable theme music and some had a memorable song like RAWHIDE! All the prime-time shows were sponsored by cigarette companies with the stars doing the selling... you've got to figure they killed more of the audience with those cancer sticks than all of the cowboys and indians all screen! Speaking of getting killed, legendary stuntman HAL NEEDHAM set a record on those western shows by doing stunts on I think it was seven different shows in the same day, probably by doing several on the same lot like MCA-Revue/Four-Star (CBS) lot or close by at Warners or Paramount. And remember if any genre made use of stock footage more than any other it was WESTERNS, and Warner Brothers did it more and better than anybody. Yes, TV WESTERNS resonate with all Baby Boomers, but then in those days in the USA you always had three good shows on the three main networks at exactly the same time... Now with scores of channels you're lucky to find one good show on at any time!
Yeah, Needham for example was in nearly every episode of "Have Gun Will Travel", doing stunts, once in a while as a minor character with a line or two. Oft times doubling multiple actors in the same episode, maybe once or twice as a cowboy shooting himself off a cliff playing an "I word" (native American, if expressed any other way likely to be deleted by youtube) and vs versa if the script made the I word a better shot. Hal claimed in all the years working in films and TV he never turned down a stunt.
I find broken ones metal detecting quite often and I always think of us neighbor kids and all the cool shootouts we had but if ever any of our WW2 veteran Fathers saw us pointing our six shooters at each other we got in trouble. Of course we still did but the lesson stuck.
I never had anything too expensive. I mostly had to be satisfied with those Five and Dime plastic cowboys and Indians, made bowlegged so they fit on their plastic horses. Which made great targets when I finally got my Red Ryder BB gun.
I mentioned that by the time I came around all the endorsement stuff was gone. But I did get my Red Ryder BB gun and they are still around. I wonder how many kids getting a Red Ryder today have any idea who Red Ryder is?
@@westernsontheweb No kids. There are probably more adults familiar with it being Ralphie's ardent gift wish from "A Christmas Story", and maybe the only reason why its brand name is still around.
I am definitely going to look this gentleman up on RUclips. As usual, Ive never heard of him, but what a Im so impressed what he and his wife have done with with the vintage Western Toy Cap Guns. This last week I saw the cutest (painting, I think) picture of a little guy in his pj's hiding behind the arm of the sofa. He's peeking around the sofa arm, holding cap gun in the air...on the tv was a black and white western show, it must have been the bad guy he was going to get! I tried to get my boys to watch classic westerns with me, but nope, they didnt like black & white shows. Bummer!!! 🥺 Great interview, going to look him up now!!! Thank you! 👍👍
@@AWordonWesterns I went back to look at that picture, he does not have pj's on, he is decked out in full Cowboy attire. Hat, long sleeved blue shirt, dungarees, and his beloved Cowboy Boots. My memory, I tell ya!? I'll keep my fingers crossed on my boys for sure! 🤞🫶🤞
Don't you hate it when you sit down to relax, and watch your favorite commercials, and they get interrupted every 15 minutes, by 2 minutes of those pesky tv programs. I remember having a double barrel cork gun as a kid, and would like to find one again, metal construction, of course like they used to do.
I think I speak for the majority You can’t take another whole month off Rob I almost got out of the habit of watching AWOW with my coffee every Sunday morning
HA! Okay, now I can enjoy this guy more. I've watched a few films that have him doing an intro and outro to where it's obvious that he has no idea what the film is. It's always just the same little speech. I certainly didn't know how accomplished he is and thank you for enlightening me, Rob.
@@JohnNewcomb-g9u I guess this was just a generic thing they added when posting the PD films. They just pop up in my RUclips feeds once in a while and are probably from before he was hosting an actual series. Now that I know that he was far more than I had thought, I'm going to seek out some of his work. Actually, I'm remembering that I did some video bookends back in the '70s. I STILL don't know what those were used for!
Rob, have you ever done an episode concerning comic book series. I loved western comics. I was hooked on "The Rawhide Kid " and a bunch of others. Just asking...
@AWordonWesterns Thanks! I grew up with all kinds of Western toys also. When Gunsmoke came on, I would always "draw" against Matt Dillon, and I always beat him. Can't account for my shot accuracy though...
Amazing how the great western shows of yesterday are still been shown. They don't seem to have aged like a lot of non westerns. watch Clint Eastwoods Josey Wales and then Dirty harry Josey Wales wins hands down. Where as Dirty harry has aged .
You two could write the complete history of TV Westerns. It would probably be a 10 volume boxed publication.😊 Thanks for sharing your interview with Mr Bob Terry. He's the "real deal". You're both "genuine" gentlemen.
👍👍👏👏🇺🇲🇺🇲
Wonderful interview, Rob. You’re a joy to listen to, Bob. Thank you to the both of you.
Yep memories of toy guns and toy forts brilliant !!!
I've been watching both Word on Westerns and Westerns on the Web
for the old Western films and TV shows being a fan of them this is
really awesome thanks Rob and Bob
have a great week thank you.🤠🇺🇲🐴
Never knew you'd cross paths with Bob Terry! I've visited his Westerns on the Web channel. He does a good job (and so do you).
Thanks
Outstanding Rob never knew Bob sold cap guns.
Thanks 👍
We manufacture in the USA our company is Wild West Toys
Had a cowboy hat, sheriff star and six shooter cap gun , happy times 😊
Listening in to two nerds that are even bigger nerds than yourself is just the greatest thing! Rob, you should do a segment about parents who throw out their kid's toys! My mum trashed out all my action figures of the European westerns (Lex Barker, Pierre Brice AND their horses). Priceless collector's items today! 😭
My two favorite You Tube hosts. A Word On Westerns and Westerns On The Web! Rob thank you for your show. The memories just come rushing in with every episode! Just loved this episode. God bless you Rob . By the way. I love your hat! Take care now!
Thanks. The hat’s one of my favorites.
Really enjoyed the show, I purchased a replica Hopalong Cassidy 44 six shooter online back in the early 2000's. I don't recall from where, but probably from Bob. Great we'll made cap gun, thanks Bob and Rob
Yes that was from us, Wild West Toys. We had a license for a limited number of those. Thanks for shopping with us.
I am now 73 and I approve of this episode...!!! At one time I had a derringer that fit onto a gun belt buckle and when I put the gun belt on and pushed my stomach out, it would make the little derringer pop out and fire a little plastic bullet. That was cool...!!!
Hi Rob, as a kid kid in 1961 who had the yellow Rifleman lunch box, I enjoyed this interview. It was pretty beat-up after a year with a broken thermos, and was sadly discarded with only a year in service.......wish I had it today.....Good interview,,,⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thanks, Buzz. What do you carry your lunches in now?
Nice work. I too grew up with toy guns. Fast draw contests in the neighborhood. Very fun reminiscing about the old days.
For us, too. Thanks!
thanks again rob, did the tour in okie city, ok.. loved it. ill go again.
Great interview, loved every minute.
Such a great and detailed interview. Thank you both so much.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.
This reminds me of my Mattel lever action cab gun and my pair of Roy Calhoun six guns.
Lot of childhood memories from the opening scenes. First TV western outfit me and bro got was Wyatt Earp -- hat, jacket and pants. Then, next Christmas, a Paladin two gun holster set (Paladin always carried one gun), sans derringer but with calling cards, which my dad got a big laugh out of. Also got a Zorro outfit (bro got a Superman outfit), a half scale mare's leg, and a very realistic looking Colt pistol. One of the best was my Bat Masterson get up: Cane, gun and holster, and a very "loud" gold satin vest with black stars (?) -- no derby that I can recall.
Kudos to Bob Terry for continuing the tradition of creating childhood memories that can last a lifetime. Thanks for the interview, Rob.
Wow! Sounds like you and your brother were the best dressed, and armed, cowboy kids in the neighborhood!
@@AWordonWesterns Most well read, too. Among the many gooks we got were a Wild Bill Hickok bio, a Jim Bowie bio, a Pony Express history (my fave), Guns of the Old West, and more, I'm sure, that I can't recall at the moment. I think both our dads wanted to instill the love they had for the old west into their sons, and both succeeded at it.
I love both of your shows, nice to see you both together talking westerns.
Excellent interview
Nice pic of Walter Brennan. He was one of my favorites. I think it was his voice 😅. Thank you Rob for another great Sunday 👍
What a great interview. I loved it. Thank you so much for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it, ginny. Thanks.
Another great interview!!!
Too many years now but I think I recall having a Fanner Fifty cap gun? ......Another very fine interview here, Rob.
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Morton Fine and David Friedkin (both of whom later worked on I Spy and very briefly The Virginian) wrote the Frontier episode that y'all discussed (with Chuck Connors as the Tom Hornesque Thorpe Henderson).
I was shopping in the Ginza in Japan in 1971 and came across a booth that contained special blank-firing metal and wood replicas of just about every Hollywood gun a teenager could imagine. One of them was a Josh Randall mare's leg Winchester 92 with the leather belt and skeletonized holster. I didn't have enough cash to buy more than one prop gun, so I settled for a 1921 Thompson like Sergeant Saunders carried in Combat! Today you can buy real live-firing clones of the Mare's Leg, so the dream lives on. All you need is a wanted poster.
Rob, You knocked the ball out of the park on this one! THANKS
Fantastic stuff Rob I watch the forsaken westerns on u tube, I never knew how amazing and talented Bob is . God bless you both for your great work ! Keeps this armchair quarterback cowpoke alive lol
And he can sing,also
I am a fan of Bob Terry! Yes, we are kids again and glad of it.
Bob and his wife put a cast together and did a RUclips Western. It was pretty good. If you get a chance, check it out!
Thank you so much for watching.
That was GOOD !
TV WESTERNS, boy could I debate you guys Rob... I've mentioned this before, but growing-up in Britain during the 1950's we got many of the TV westerns at the same time as you did, only we only had two channels to watch them on...
In the 1959 season there were 48 westerns on TV most being half-hour, easier to sell and more profitable. The biggest producersin prime time were MCA-Revue, Four Star, Warner Brothers and CBS. ZIV and Desilu would be next, and Gene Autry and Jack Wrather would dominate the rest of the day.
Of Course in the early days there was Hopalong Cassidy and he was the first into mertchandising, followed by Wrather with the Lone Ranger and Disney with Davey Crockett. Later on, all the shows were merchandising everything.
What made the TV Westerns so popular was because they were all morality plays with clearly defined good guys and bad guys, and they were easy and cheap to make. It was a true HOLLYWOOD assembly-line that made use of all the western sets on backlots and movie ranches. IVERSONS ranch was the most used often with four or more companies shooting on their 500 acres out by Chatsworth. In that area you had Corriganville, Bell, Spahn and other ranches nearby. Roy Rogers had his Double-R-Bar ranch at the foot of the Santa Susanna Pass, and even the railroad going through it was used in numerous westerns with the studios using their own period trains.
In short, B-Westerns became TV Westerns and they used the very same crews and actors. Whatever the show they used the very same formula having memorable theme music and some had a memorable song like RAWHIDE!
All the prime-time shows were sponsored by cigarette companies with the stars doing the selling... you've got to figure they killed more of the audience with those cancer sticks than all of the cowboys and indians all screen!
Speaking of getting killed, legendary stuntman HAL NEEDHAM set a record on those western shows by doing stunts on I think it was seven different shows in the same day, probably by doing several on the same lot like MCA-Revue/Four-Star (CBS) lot or close by at Warners or Paramount.
And remember if any genre made use of stock footage more than any other it was WESTERNS, and Warner Brothers did it more and better than anybody.
Yes, TV WESTERNS resonate with all Baby Boomers, but then in those days in the USA you always had three good shows on the three main networks at exactly the same time... Now with scores of channels you're lucky to find one good show on at any time!
Yeah, Needham for example was in nearly every episode of "Have Gun Will Travel", doing stunts, once in a while as a minor character with a line or two. Oft times doubling multiple actors in the same episode, maybe once or twice as a cowboy shooting himself off a cliff playing an "I word" (native American, if expressed any other way likely to be deleted by youtube) and vs versa if the script made the I word a better shot.
Hal claimed in all the years working in films and TV he never turned down a stunt.
The Guns of Will Sonnett was one of Aaron Spelling's earliest shows as a producer (Danny Thomas was his production partner at the time).
I find broken ones metal detecting quite often and I always think of us neighbor kids and all the cool shootouts we had but if ever any of our WW2 veteran Fathers saw us pointing our six shooters at each other we got in trouble. Of course we still did but the lesson stuck.
Personal friends ,great people
Thank you John
The Texan's theme music that you brought up was actually a piece from Capitol Records' Hi-Q Library ("Heavy Agitato" by Bill Loose and John Seely).
Thanks, Pryce. Good stuff!
Great interview. I think there may be enough information for a part 2.
Noted, Tom. Thanks.
For certain
I never had anything too expensive. I mostly had to be satisfied with those Five and Dime plastic cowboys and Indians, made bowlegged so they fit on their plastic horses. Which made great targets when I finally got
my Red Ryder BB gun.
I had those little rubber cowboys, too.
I mentioned that by the time I came around all the endorsement stuff was gone. But I did get my Red Ryder BB gun and they are still around. I wonder how many kids getting a Red Ryder today have any idea who Red Ryder is?
@@westernsontheweb Only our combined viewers know who Red Ryder is. (They probably know who all the actors who were, too.)
@@westernsontheweb No kids. There are probably more adults familiar with it being Ralphie's ardent gift wish from "A Christmas Story", and maybe the only reason why its brand name is still around.
Great video keep it up both of you!!!!
Thank you! Will do!
Great!
Bob and Johnie Terry are great people and dedicated to their lifestyle.Western singers filmmakers and good Christian people
Thanks Rob Word
And if you ever get the chance and they invite you for dinner.GO
Thank you so much John. It has been a little too long since we have gotten together.
We are both busy@@westernsontheweb
I still have my Wanted Dead Alive Mares Leg Cap gun
Are you the king of the neighborhood, Troy?
@@AWordonWesterns Dang Tootin !
Really enjoyed!
Yay, thank you!
Very informative and interesting interview. I always learn new things on your channel.
Glad to hear it, Joan. Thanks.
I am definitely going to look this gentleman up on RUclips. As usual, Ive never heard of him, but what a Im so impressed what he and his wife have done with with the vintage Western Toy Cap Guns.
This last week I saw the cutest (painting, I think) picture of a little guy in his pj's hiding behind the arm of the sofa. He's peeking around the sofa arm, holding cap gun in the air...on the tv was a black and white western show, it must have been the bad guy he was going to get!
I tried to get my boys to watch classic westerns with me, but nope, they didnt like black & white shows. Bummer!!! 🥺
Great interview, going to look him up now!!! Thank you! 👍👍
Thanks, Karen. Don’t give up on your boys.
@@AWordonWesterns
I went back to look at that picture, he does not have pj's on, he is decked out in full Cowboy attire. Hat, long sleeved blue shirt, dungarees, and his beloved Cowboy Boots.
My memory, I tell ya!?
I'll keep my fingers crossed on my boys for sure!
🤞🫶🤞
Don't you hate it when you sit down to relax, and watch your favorite commercials, and they get interrupted every 15 minutes, by 2 minutes of those pesky tv programs.
I remember having a double barrel cork gun as a kid, and would like to find one again, metal construction, of course like they used to do.
I think I speak for the majority
You can’t take another whole month off Rob
I almost got out of the habit of watching AWOW with my coffee every Sunday morning
C’mon now, Ryan. These timeless stories are good for multiple viewings. Thanks.
@@AWordonWesterns for sure I have watched them all many times
Great interview today and I’m glad you’re back
God Bless
That photo at 3:00 of the lead actors from all those great Warner Western shows has one glaring omission.
A shiny new dime to whoever names who.
Where's Clint?
@@AWordonWesterns Yeah, Cheyenne. Maybe in the commissary drinking milk with his shirt off.
@@hiramnoone😂
HA! Okay, now I can enjoy this guy more. I've watched a few films that have him doing an intro and outro to where it's obvious that he has no idea what the film is. It's always just the same little speech. I certainly didn't know how accomplished he is and thank you for enlightening me, Rob.
Well you are welcome certainly to your opinion.but BOB Certainly WASNT IGNORANT ON THE SHOWS HE HOSTED.AT Least I HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM.THST WAY.
@@JohnNewcomb-g9u I guess this was just a generic thing they added when posting the PD films. They just pop up in my RUclips feeds once in a while and are probably from before he was hosting an actual series. Now that I know that he was far more than I had thought, I'm going to seek out some of his work. Actually, I'm remembering that I did some video bookends back in the '70s. I STILL don't know what those were used for!
I miss the smell of cap gun smoke in the early morn... and bubble gum chew!
LOL
Rob, have you ever done an episode concerning comic book series. I loved western comics. I was hooked on "The Rawhide Kid " and a bunch of others. Just asking...
Yes, Tom. Back in 2014 with Comic Book legends Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier.
@AWordonWesterns
Thanks! I grew up with all kinds of Western toys also. When Gunsmoke came on, I would always "draw" against Matt Dillon, and I always beat him. Can't account for my shot accuracy though...
When I moved out my mom looked at all my toy guns holsters plastic knives hats Indian bonnets as so much junk😢
YIKES!!!
En español latino
Amazing how the great western shows of yesterday are still been shown. They don't seem to have aged like a lot of non westerns. watch Clint Eastwoods Josey Wales and then Dirty harry Josey Wales wins hands down. Where as Dirty harry has aged .
That’s one of the reasons we still love them, Colin. Thanks.