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When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
Whiplash (TV series) Whispering Smith (TV series) Wichita Town. Wide Country (TV series) The Wild Wild West. Wrangler (TV series) Categories: 1960s television series by genre. Western (genre) television series by decade.
In 1959, the top four most popular television shows in the United States were westerns. From humble beginnings the small-screen horse opera became a TV staple and cultural phenomenon in the 1950s ...
A. Action in the Afternoon. The Adventures of Champion (TV series) The Adventures of Jim Bowie. The Adventures of Kit Carson. The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin. The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok. The Alaskans.
Westernfilms. This is a list of notable Western films and TV series, ordered by year and decade of release. For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production. The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888. Until 1903, films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes, [ 1] reflecting the amount of ...
Young Dan'l Boone. Young Maverick. The Young Pioneers (miniseries) Categories: 1970s television series by genre. Western (genre) television series by decade. 20th-century Western (genre) television series. Hidden category: Category series navigation decade and century.
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. 1940s Western (genre) television series (3 P) 1950s Western (genre) television series (3 C, 88 P) 1960s Western (genre) television series (3 C, 89 P) 1970s Western (genre) television series (4 C, 30 P) 1980s Western (genre) television series (31 P)