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My faves:

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on July 23, 2005 at 14:15:46

In Reply to: Your choice of TV Westerns? posted by Bolt on July 22, 2005 at 20:32:06:

Have Gun Will Travel - (well conceived, executed and highly original; very adult for it's time)

The Legend of Briscoe County Jr. - (very clever, totally over the top without seeming campy or silly)

Rawhide - (great plots in an hour long format which was rare in the 50's; Clint Eastwood's break-out role)

Maverick - (excellent hour long tongue 'n cheek western, with a great sense of irony; wonderful humor)

Second Tier:

Deadwood - (This one has my attention, but the obscenities seem less realistic than the rest of the language & settings)

Wanted Dead or Alive (plots are okay, but not as consistently good as Have gun; it does have Steve McQueen in his break-out role)

The Rifleman - (great show, but not one of my first choices; too much pull-at-the-heartstrings, family angst stuff; not enough action)

Cheyenne - (haven't seen these in years, but my recollection is that this series was very well scripted and acted)

Gunsmoke - (early B&W years w/Dennis Weaver as Chester; this series seems to have worked best as a 30 minute morality play, losing a lot when the drama was extended to an hour's length)

Most disliked Western [with apologies toKT88]:

The Wild, Wild, West - This started out as a clever albeit semi-serious western, but quickly turned to a campy caricature of itself mid-way through it's first season. Also, when it switched from B&W to color the production values got noticeably worse as did the scripting (budget cuts?). One sign of a 60's vintage series in trouble is the tendency toward bringing in noteable guest cameos to try bolstering sagging ratings; as I recall, this series along with the once great spy drama The Man from U.N.C.L.E suffered greatly from corny guest cameos near the end of it's run.

Some of these opinions is based on recollections dating back decades, especially for series like Wild, Wild West. No offense is intended; everyone's mileage varies.

Cheers,
AuPh

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