Bonanza

The Lone Ranger, 'Hi oh Silver, Away'!!!

notnecessarilywiser

Westerns were great then, weren't they (with the exception of the depiction of indigenous people as mostly savages)? The saloon scenes, with the stranger from out of town bursting through the swingy doors, the piano player suddenly silent and many a local reaching for his six shooter ...

I know I shouldn’t but I used to love the old films featuring the wagon trains being attacked by the local indigenous people. Can definitely see it from their point of view now!!
They have swapped from being the baddies to the goodies in my mind.

Obviously “Alexa” was listening!

I also loved The High Chaparral

I loved Little Joe, and later followed him to Little House on the Prairie. Don't have Amazon Prime unfortunately and too mean to pay for it!

Children’s Hour, on around teatime, used to have a Western every afternoon.

The Lone Ranger, The Range Rider, Champion The Wonder Horse, Roy Rogers (King of Cowboys) and Dale Evans (Queen of the West), real life husband and wife, Lassie, Boots and Saddles, …..

Oh, happy, innocent days!

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Maverick was my favourite as a teenager, I loved James Garner and also the actor who played Bart Maverick. I will certainly watch some episodes of Bonanza for sentimental reasons as during our first visit to California many years ago we stayed at Lake Tahoe for a few days. One day we went for a drive to Incline Village and spotted a sign for Ponderosa ranch so we took a look. There was a mock up of the house and even mock graves of some of the characters in the garden. I just googled it and it recently sold for $38 million. I wonder what will happen to it?

Maverick was my favourite as a teenager, I loved James Garner and also the actor who played Bart Maverick. I will certainly watch some episodes of Bonanza for sentimental reasons as during our first visit to California many years ago we stayed at Lake Tahoe for a few days. One day we went for a drive to Incline Village and spotted a sign for Ponderosa ranch so we took a look. There was a mock up of the house and even mock graves of some of the characters in the garden. I just googled it and it recently sold for $38 million. I wonder what will happen to it?

Amberone

Anniebach

I was in love with James Drury - The Virginian

Me too ?

I remember watching Bonanza dubbed in German when I was about 10. I don't think any of us had an inkling what was going on but they were cowboys with horses, chaps and guns and there were Indians and I guess the stories are simple enough for anyone to work out what is happening. We'd never seen it in English so probably thought they were German cowboys ?

James Drury - sigh. The focus of this teenage girls dreams ❤️

I liked them all, me specially The Virginian, was that the one with Trampas. I thought too, that James Drury was great. And The High Chapparal too.

youtu.be/r9jSLUtW16U I found a utube videos of the ranch. Apparently it sold for 38 million dollars. Hope the link works.

I was in love with Little Joe (Micheal Landon) too. About 40 years later and travelling in America we came across a sign to Bonanza ranch near Lake Tahoe. Had to visit and there it was, not a film set but an actual ranch, there was even a copy of the map on the wall. We had Hos burgers for lunch. Well worth the detour.

Anniebach

I was in love with James Drury - The Virginian

Me too ?

I remember watching Bonanza dubbed in German when I was about 10. I don't think any of us had an inkling what was going on but they were cowboys with horses, chaps and guns and there were Indians and I guess the stories are simple enough for anyone to work out what is happening. We'd never seen it in English so probably thought they were German cowboys ?

We didn't have a TV so I saw my westerns at the cinema. If you fancy an old western there are loads of them on the free channels like Paramount Network, Talking Pictures and Film 4. Who could forget Audie Murphy, he was in most of them! Did anyone know he was the most decorated American soldier in World War Two? A real life hero.

I was in love with James Drury - The Virginian

I never missed Bonanza as a child. I looked forward to The Virginian too.
Just last Saturday grandson 1 and I were enjoying The Beverly Hillbillies on Amazon Prime.

LucySnowe

We loved Bonanza as kids, the opening credits with the map burning! I was in love with Michael Landon.

Me too!!!

I used to love all the Saturday westerns like High Chaparral, Alias Smith and Jones, The Virginian, Bonanza, The Munroes and Lancer. I used to watch them with my dad, sometimes we'd share a plate of tripe cut into squares with salt and vinegar. I was a weird child!

BigBertha1

My parents liked High Chapparel. I hated all westerns still do. except I suppose Blazing Saddles.

Blazing saddles is a classic! - the campfire scene ??

Was it Frankie Lane who sang the Rawhide theme tune, rolling’,rolling’, rolling’, keep them doggies rolling’?
Interchanging earworms of Bonanza and Rawhide with visions of Rowdy Yates. ?

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We also went to Saturday cinema at what was then Woolton picture house there were ushers selling ice cream but we couldn’t afford it.

I actually think my DGSs would love Westerns, if they made some new family-friendly ones.

Me too Avalon I still remember the songs and who could forget Robert Horton and Will Hutchins (Hutchings?).

I watched Bonanza and many other westerns growing up. I also watched Gunsmoke and I loved the characters in it. Another favourite tv show was The Fugitive watched over again on YouTube I loved David Harold Meyer (David Janssen) when I was young.

I always loved a Western, on television or at the pictures, but they were especially exciting at the Saturday children’s matinee. The big lads would lob missiles from the front to the back whenever the arrows or bullets flew, over the heads of us littlies sitting open-mouthed in the centre stalls in the charge of the big girls. The noise was deafening.

I don’t remember ever seeing an usher/ette - they were probably hiding in the foyer.