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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is/was your favorite Western movies or television series. Mine was Lonesome Dove. How about you?


beemerphill
(581 posts)The Trinity series of Westerns. They are some of the best flicks.
debm55
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DODI
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markodochartaigh
(3,725 posts)It is basically a Western sci-fi series. It should have run for several more seasons too.
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Paladin
(31,463 posts)Favorite TV series: Toss-up between "Lonesome Dove" and "Have Gun, Will Travel."
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LoisB
(11,470 posts)or Blazing Saddles.
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Brother Buzz
(39,046 posts)"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
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whathehell
(30,249 posts)and for movies it would be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Opbrg
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303squadron
(745 posts)Once Upon a Time in the West!
Henry Fonda as the bad guy in a reversal to the roles he so often played is psychologically jarring.
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ProfessorGAC
(74,109 posts)Series: Rawhide.
My dad loved Wagon Train, Bonanza, & Wanted: Dead Or Alive.
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lark
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Emile
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boonecreek
(1,180 posts)Probably the most accurate accounting of the events that led up to
the gunfight at the OK Corral and its aftermath. Series, Bonanza.
I liked that they would do a comedy episode once in awhile like
"Hoss and the Leprechauns".
debm55
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doc03
(38,303 posts)Shot Liberty Valence.
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sorcrow
(624 posts)Movie -- Little Big Man
Cat Ballou is a close second
TV -- The Wild, Wild West
Best regards,
Sorghum Crow
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mentalsolstice
(4,601 posts)Gunsmoke . I loved the Festus years. Lonesome Dove, I read the book before the miniseries, however, they were both great.
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no_hypocrisy
(52,786 posts)Our last conversation was his fascination with the cable Western Channel. (He was in rehab, learning to stand and walk.)
He went on and on about Dame Judith Anderson and Bette Davis (separately) appearing on Wagon Train. I'd say he was excited.
I hope I can find these episodes, if only to understand better his last conversation with me.
debm55
(50,279 posts)blessings to your heart. May he RIP
LogDog75
(802 posts)Movies:
The Searchers (probally the best western ever made)
The Way West
Rio Lobo
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
How the West Was Won
The Ox-Bow Incident
TV:
Rawhide
Maverick
Have Gun - Will Travel
Bonanza
Wagon Train
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Luciferous
(6,489 posts)would be Tombstone
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Figarosmom
(7,994 posts)Maverick,The Wild,Wild West and Deadwood.
Movie: Little Big Man and Blazing Saddle
I Liked the Spagetti westerns like The Good, Bad and the Ugly. Can't stand to watch Clint Eastwood now though. But Eli Wallach was so funny as a Mexican.
debm55
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electric_blue68
(23,479 posts)The others named here, a lot sound familiar, and I'm sure I watched some of them at times as a kid.
I think Bonanza was the one I watched consistently as a kid.
Briscoe County as an adult - very clever, funny. A bit of a Science Fiction flavor at some point.
debm55
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Coventina
(28,585 posts)Magnificent Seven for movies.
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Sibelius Fan
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CanonRay
(15,541 posts)Wire Paladin, San Francisco.
debm55
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Again, not very highbrow.
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TexLaProgressive
(12,588 posts)I loved the jazz guitar soundtrack, the stories were good as well
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Bluestocking
(249 posts)and never watched Western tv shows. Three movies were Blazing Saddles, Dances with Wolves and Back to the Future 3, so I would have to say Blazing Saddles is favorite.
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