What was the longest running Western T.V. series
"Rawhide (TV series) Rawhide is an American Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The show aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959, to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965, until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes. The series was produced and sometimes directed by Charles Marquis Warren, who also produced early episodes of ""Gunsmoke"". Spanning seven and a half years, ""Rawhide"" was the sixth-longest-running American television Western, exceeded only by eight years of ""Wagon Train"", nine years of ""The"
"Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne was an American Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bros. original series produced by William T. Orr. The show starred Clint Walker, a native of Illinois, as Cheyenne Bodie,"
"The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults, premiering four days before ""Gunsmoke"" on September 6, 1955. It is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour, black-and-white program aired for six seasons (229 episodes) on ABC from 1955 to 1961, and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role. The first season of the series purports to tell the story of Wyatt's experiences as deputy town marshal of Ellsworth, Kansas (first four episodes) and then as town marshal in Wichita. In"
"Stories of the Century Stories of the Century is a 39-episode Western television series starring Jim Davis that ran in syndication through Republic Pictures between 1954 and 1955. Jim Davis, who later played Jock Ewing on the CBS series ""Dallas"", portrayed the role of fictitious Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark. Davis also narrated each episode. Mary Castle co-starred in twenty-six episodes as Clark's attractive assistant, Frankie Adams. Castle left the program and was replaced by Kristine Miller who appeared in thirteen episodes as Margaret Jones, or ""Jonesy"". In 1955, ""Stories of the Century"" became the first western to win an"
"most enduring vintage radio dramas. Conrad directed two television episodes, in 1963 and 1971, while McNear appeared on six, playing characters other than Doc, including three times as storekeeper Howard Rudd. The TV series ran from September 10, 1955, to March 31, 1975, on CBS, with 635 total episodes. It was the second Western television series written for adults, premiering on September 10, 1955, four days after ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"". The first 12 seasons aired Saturdays at 10 pm, seasons 13 through 16 aired Mondays at 7:30 pm, and the last four seasons aired Mondays at"
"As demand for the Western increased, new stories and stars were introduced. A number of long-running TV Westerns became classics in their own right, such as: ""The Lone Ranger"" (1949-1957), ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"" (1955-1961), ""Gunsmoke"" (1955-1975), ""Maverick"" (1957-1962), ""Have Gun – Will Travel"" (1957-1963), ""Wagon Train"" (1957-1965), ""Sugarfoot"" (1957-1961), ""The Rifleman"" (1958-1963), ""Rawhide"" (1959-1966), ""Bonanza"" (1959-1973), ""The Virginian"" (1962-1971), and ""The Big Valley"" (1965-1969). ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"" was the first Western television series written for adults, premiering four days before ""Gunsmoke"" on September 6, 1955. The peak year for television Westerns was"
"Northwest Passage (TV series) Northwest Passage is a 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time of the French and Indian War (1756–1763). The show derived its title and the main characters Rogers, Towne, and Marriner from the 1937 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts, and from the 1940 MGM feature film based on the novel. The scope of the novel was much broader than that of the series, and the second half of the book included an historically based attempt by Rogers to find a water route through"
"still running (October 2017) and is the world's longest-running soap opera with a total of over 18,400 episodes. There had been some earlier serialized drama including, the six episode ""The Shadow of the Swastika"" (1939), Dorothy L. Sayers's ""The Man Born To Be King"", in twelve episodes (1941), and ""Front Line Family"" (1941–48), which was broadcast to America as part of the effort to encourage the USA to enter the war. The show's storylines depicted the trials and tribulations of a British family, the Robinsons, living through the war. This featured plots about rationing, family members missing in action and"
"– was the longest-running series ever to have aired on The WB, having run on the network for ten seasons from 1996 to 2006. The program was beaten by ""Supernatural"" as the longest-running series to originate on The WB in the 2017-18 season, when the latter series began its thirteenth season (""7th Heaven"" ran for an additional season on The CW from 2006 to 2007; while ""Supernatural"" aired on The WB for one season from 2005 to 2006, before moving to The CW in September 2006, where it has aired since). The WB debuted the Kids' WB children's program block"
"the U.S. Borax mining operations in 1968 and now owns the TV series. ""Death Valley Days"" is by far the most successful syndicated television western series, the most successful television western ever in the half-hour format, and one of the longest-running and most successful of all scripted syndicated series. The end of the series, coupled with the concurrent end of ""Gunsmoke"", marked the demise of the traditional Western era in American television; by the middle 1970s, although western elements were still fairly common in modern series, such as ""Little House on the Prairie"", pure western series were a thing of"
"as TV's first hour-long western and also the first western series made for adults, rather than children, who had been watching such half-hour series as ""The Lone Ranger"" and ""The Cisco Kid"" since the earliest years of full-schedule TV programming. Analogous to the abbreviated time allotted for 8 of ""Casablanca's"" 10 installments, the 48-minute episode length was also applicable to 8 of ""Cheyenne's"" 15 installments and all 7 installments of ""Kings Row"". One of the most iconic films in Hollywood history, ""Casablanca"" perfectly caught the present-day (1942) wartime spirit of the age, but the TV series set, as it was,"
"surpassed ""The X-Files"" as the longest-running North American science fiction series on television, until passed by Smallville in 2011, which was in turn passed by The X-Files. ""Doctor Who"" fans dispute ""SG-1"" listing in the 2007 ""Guinness World Records"" as the ""longest-running science fiction show (consecutive)"", as 695 episodes of the British show were produced but not shown consecutively between 1963 and 1989. ""Stargate SG-1"" ranked #28 on ""TV Guide""s Top Cult Shows Ever. In 2005, ""SG-1"" and ""Atlantis"" shared the number four spot in a poll about the ""most popular cult TV shows"" on the British ""Cult TV"" website."
"Stagecoach West (TV series) Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series that ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry (played by Wayne Rogers) and Simon Kane (Robert Bray) operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David ""Davey"" Kane (played by Richard Eyer), joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite sides of the American Civil War; Kane,"
"Saturday time slot with the first season of James Arness's ""Gunsmoke"", which became the longest running western series in television history. Professional Father Professional Father is an American situation comedy that aired from January to July 1955 on CBS. The series stars Stephen Dunne. It replaced ""That's My Boy"" in the CBS schedule. Dr. Tom Wilson (Dunne) is a child psychologist who is successful with his patients but less than effective with his own family. Barbara Billingsley, two years before she was cast as the concerned mother in ""Leave It to Beaver"", played Tom's wife, Helen Wilson.Beverly Washburn starred as"
"p.m.) than most NBC stations in the Eastern Time Zone, due to an hour-long 6 p.m. newscast. Like network flagship WNBC, it airs ""Meet the Press"" an hour-and-a-half later than most NBC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone due to a two-hour Sunday morning newscast. WRC-TV's building is home to ""Meet the Press"", the longest-running program in U.S. broadcast television history, which debuted on November 6, 1947 and ""It's Academic"", which premiered in 1961 and is the longest-running game show in television history according to the ""Guinness Book of World Records"". ""Sam and Friends"", Jim Henson's late-night precursor to ""Sesame"
"Best of the West Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982. The Old West spoof featured the misadventures of Sam Best (Joel Higgins), a Civil War veteran who becomes a marshal in Copper Creek after accidentally scaring off an incompetent gunfighter called the Calico Kid. Sam's family was made up of his Southern-belle wife Elvira (Carlene Watkins) and his smart-mouthed son Daniel (Meeno Peluce). The cast also included Leonard Frey as villain Parker Tillman, Tom Ewell as drunken town doctor Jerome Kullens, and Tracey Walter as Tillman's clueless but"
"Oregon Trail"" (1971), ""Mad Dog McCree"" (1990), ""Sunset Riders"" (1991), ""Outlaws"" (1997), ""Red Dead Revolver"" (2004), ""Gun"" (2005), ""Call of Juarez"" (2007), ""Red Dead Redemption"" (2010), and ""Red Dead Redemption 2"" (2018). Other video games adapt the Science fiction Western or Weird West subgenres such as ""Fallout"" (1997), ""Gunman Chronicles"" (2000), ""Darkwatch"" (2005), the ""Borderlands"" series (first released in 2009)"", "" (2010), and ""Hard West"" (2015). Western radio dramas were very popular from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some popular shows include ""The Lone Ranger"" (first broadcast in 1933), ""The Cisco Kid"" (first broadcast in 1942), ""Dr. Sixgun"" (first broadcast"
"Guiding Light Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera. It is listed in ""Guinness World Records"" as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With its run of 72 years of radio and television, ""Guiding Light"" is the longest running soap opera before ""General Hospital"" and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program ""Grand Ole Opry"" (first broadcast"
"Drama: ""The West Wing"" (2000–2003), ""The Sopranos"" (2004, 2007), ""Lost"" (2005), ""24"" (2006), ""Mad Men"" (2008–2011), ""Homeland"" (2012), ""Breaking Bad"" (2013–2014), ""Game of Thrones"" (2015-2016), and ""The Handmaid's Tale"" (2017). In terms of DVD sales, however, strongly serialized shows often perform better than shows which are strongly procedural. ""24"" (Season 6), ""Lost"" (Season 4), ""Heroes"" (Season 2), ""True Blood"" and even ratings minnow ""Battlestar Galactica"" (Season 4.0) sell significantly more units than hit procedurals such as """" (Season 6), ""NCIS"" (Season 3, Season 5), """" (Season 4, Season 5) and ""Criminal Minds"" (Season 2, Season 3). Serialized shows tend to"
"The Westerner (TV series) The Westerner is a highbrow American Western series that aired on NBC from September 30 to December 30, 1960. Created, written and produced by Sam Peckinpah, who also directed some episodes, the series was a Four Star Television production. ""The Westerner"" stars Brian Keith as amiable, unexceptional cowhand/drifter Dave Blassingame, and features John Dehner as rakish Burgundy Smith, who appeared in three episodes. Dave Blassingame was a basically decent, ordinary man who was handy with a gun and his fists (and, when the occasion arose, the ladies). A cowboy and drifter, he could sometimes behave amorally"
"The Virginian (TV series) The Virginian (repackaged as The Men from Shiloh in its final year) is an American Western television series starring James Drury, Doug McClure and Lee J. Cobb, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) television network from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called ""Decision"". Filmed in color, ""The Virginian"" became television's first 90-minute Western series (75 minutes excluding commercial breaks). Cobb left the series after four seasons and was replaced over the years by mature character actors John Dehner, Charles Bickford, John"
"as ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", ""Smallville"", ""Dawson's Creek"", and ""One Tree Hill"". Two dramas produced by Spelling Television, ""7th Heaven"" and ""Charmed,"" helped bring The WB into the spotlight. ""Charmed"" lasted eight seasons, becoming the longest-running drama with female leads. ""7th Heaven"" ran for eleven seasons and was the longest-running family drama and longest-running show for the network. In 2006, Warner and CBS Paramount Television decided to close The WB and CBS's UPN and jointly launch The CW Television Network. In 1998, Warner Bros. celebrated its 75th anniversary. In 1999, Terry Semel and Robert Daly resigned as studio heads after"
"notable guest stars on ""Stagecoach West"" included: Stagecoach West (TV series) Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series that ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry (played by Wayne Rogers) and Simon Kane (Robert Bray) operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David ""Davey"" Kane (played by Richard Eyer), joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite"
"concept was revived during the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons with ""Smallville"" and ""Gilmore Girls"" (which aired repeats from their early seasons under the respective titles ""Smallville: Beginnings"" and ""Gilmore Girls: Beginnings""). Furthermore, from September 2002 until The WB ceased operations, the network ran a two-hour extension of its Sunday lineup (from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time), known as ""EasyView"", a block featuring week-behind episode rebroadcasts of select shows from the network's primetime schedule. Out of all the network's series, ""7th Heaven"" – which by the time it ended, had become the longest-running family drama in television history"
"In February 2016, Nostalgia Family Video released a 5-DVD box set, ""Stories of the Century: The Complete Series."" For the first time, it contains fully remastered, uncut episodes, with audio and video far in advance of anything previously available. Stories of the Century Stories of the Century is a 39-episode Western television series starring Jim Davis that ran in syndication through Republic Pictures between 1954 and 1955. Jim Davis, who later played Jock Ewing on the CBS series ""Dallas"", portrayed the role of fictitious Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark. Davis also narrated each episode. Mary Castle co-starred in twenty-six episodes"
"major success, and reached its peak as number 6 in the ratings between October 1960 and April 1961. However, success was not without its price. The ""Rawhide"" years were undoubtedly the most grueling of his life, and at first, from July until April, they filmed six days a week for an average of twelve hours a day. Although it never won Emmy stature, ""Rawhide"" earned critical acclaim and won the American Heritage Award as the best Western series on TV and it was nominated several times for best episode by the Writer's and Director's Guilds. However, the quality of the"
"such as crime drama and mystery whodunit elements. Western shows from the 1970s included ""Hec Ramsey"", ""Kung Fu"", ""Little House on the Prairie"", and ""McCloud"". In the 1990s and 2000s, hour-long Westerns and slickly packaged made-for-TV movie Westerns were introduced, such as: ""Lonesome Dove"" (1989) and ""Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"". As well, new elements were once again added to the Western formula, such as the Western-science fiction show ""Firefly"", created by Joss Whedon in 2002. ""Deadwood"" was a critically acclaimed Western series which aired on HBO from 2004 through 2006. A number of visual artists focused their work on representations"
"Warner Bros. Presents Warner Bros. Presents is the umbrella title for three series telecast as part of the 1955-56 season on ABC: ""Cheyenne"", a new Western series that originated on ""Presents"", and two based on classic Warner Bros. films, ""Casablanca"" and ""Kings Row"". While neither a critical nor popular success, this wheel series is an historically important program. Perhaps most significantly, it is the first television program of any kind made by Warner Bros. It was also the original home of ""Cheyenne"", the first hour-long television Western series and the first wholly original television series produced by a major Hollywood"
"Night Live"", a late-night series which debuted on NBC in November 1975, and has spawned the careers of many popular comedic actors (such as Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Dennis Miller and Will Ferrell). Dramatic series have taken many forms over the years. Westerns such as ""Gunsmoke"" (the longest-running prime time scripted drama series in U.S. television history, having aired from 1955 to 1975) and ""Bonanza"" had experienced their greatest popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. Medical dramas such as ""Marcus Welby, M.D."", ""St. Elsewhere"", ""ER"", ""House"" and ""Grey's Anatomy"" have endured success; as well as family dramas such as ""The"
"The series followed the adventures of fictional U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon portrayed first by William Conrad and then by James Arness, as he dealt with gunfighters, cattle rustlers, gamblers and other criminals while enforcing the law in the frontier town. The radio series starring William Conrad lasted from 1952 to 1961 while the television series ran from 1955 to 1975, on the CBS television network (Columbia Broadcasting System), the longest-running prime-time TV drama in American history. The show proved to be culturally influential and promoted the legend of Dodge City's Old West era. It also served as the source of"
"commemorate a significant broadcast event on NBC. Timeless Media Group has released all four seasons on DVD in Region 1. Laramie (TV series) Laramie was an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman; Robert Fuller as Jess Harper; Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy; and Robert L. Crawford, Jr. as Andy Sherman. Actress Spring Byington was later added to the cast. STARZ!'s Westerns Channel and the Grit network began airing the series in July 2015. The two Sherman brothers and a drifter, Jess Harper,"
"The American West The American West (formerly titled ""The West"") is a limited-event American television docu-series detailing the period 1865 to 1890 in the United States. The series was executive-produced by Robert Redford, Stephen David and Laura Michalchyshyn with Sundance Productions and aired for eight episodes on AMC from June 11 to July 30, 2016. Following the American Civil War, the United States begins developing into the ""land of opportunity,"" despite the danger from cowboys, Native Americans, outlaws and lawmen. The series chronicles the stories of Western legends, such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, George Armstrong Custer,"
"The West Point Story (TV series) The West Point Story, also known simply as West Point, is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by CBS during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. ""The West Point Story"", produced with the full cooperation of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy, was said to be based on actual files documenting many of the real-life dramatic occurrences at West Point over the years. Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however."