Whatever Happened to Westerns on Telly - ?

[Drago]

I love modern westerns too. Yellowstone is greet, albeit highly improbably. It's worth watching for Rip Wheeler alone, the way he murders his way out of problems. He gets s*** done!


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVdQrzllIw&pp=ygUVWWVsbG93c3RvbmUgcmlwIGtpbGxz


Although Yellowstone has ended I'm please that Rip and Beth wre getting their own spinoff. Lots of bad dudes will doubtless get slapped painfully, or murdered if they've really annoyed Rip.

I could really dig living somewhere that I could wear a cowboy hat every day.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Best one I’ve seen in a long time is Hell on Wheels. It’s an outstanding series.
(I can’t remember if it was on AmazonPrime or Netflix.)

 

[Sharky]

Don't forget Mr Ed. 😂

Of course.

Wasn't there a cycle chat member called Mr Ed?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Stretching the definition of westerns, but I'll proffer Casey Jones and Cowboy in Africa, firm favourites during the school hols.
Casey was based on a real character from those pioneering railroad days out west, not sure how the other one came about.

There was a song at school: "Casey Jones, he mounted to the cabin, Casey Jones fell out the other side ..." Don't remember any more.

I used to cycle round to my friend Sam's house and watch that stuff. Casey Jones, Champion the Wonder Horse, The Banana Splits ...

 

[Sharky]

Not forgetting "Four Feather Falls"

 

[stephec]

Of course.

Wasn't there a cycle chat member called Mr Ed?

I remember young Ed, not been seen for a few years though I think.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I remember young Ed, not been seen for a few years though I think.

He's old Ed now.

 

[classic33]

Of course.

Wasn't there a cycle chat member called Mr Ed?

We'd young ed

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have no idea if any of those Westerns are in colour or not

I always imagine them in B&W because we had a B&W TV and watched it during the school holidays

once I got a decent bike and found I could ride to my friends' houses (several miles) then that was the end of sitting in the house all day watching the telly while Mum and Dad worked (in the house - just to be clear!)

 

[gbb]

There was a time (and still is maybe) when playing with mock guns and swords became 'not ok, frowned upon'. We all played cowboys as kids and perhaps as the above became frowned upon, the desire for the media to show westerns fell away...so the cycle was broken. Or perhaps we (people) just grew out of it and wanted something different.
It's the same with horror, the 70s and 80s were awash with proper horror films...mostly gone now, you rarely see them anymore.
Things come and go...

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

There was a time (and still is maybe) when playing with mock guns and swords became 'not ok, frowned upon'. We all played cowboys as kids and perhaps as the above became frowned upon, the desire for the media to show westerns fell away...so the cycle was broken. Or perhaps we (people) just grew out of it and wanted something different.
It's the same with horror, the 70s and 80s were awash with proper horror films...mostly gone now, you rarely see them anymore.
Things come and go...

Woman I used to work with would be called "woke" nowadays

she when her son was born she banned all aggressive toys - no guns, swords and all that
lots of teddies and cooking sets and stuff

when he was old enough he got a Lego set for Christmas

first thing he made with it was a gun

 

[Drago]

Woman I used to work with would be called "woke" nowadays

she when her son was born she banned all aggressive toys - no guns, swords and all that
lots of teddies and cooking sets and stuff

Good on her. When Russia invades she can throw handfuls of lentils at them.

 

[presta]

They've gone west.

 

[DRM]

I recall many years ago going to a job in Barnsley, whilst getting signed in at security a bloke turns up for a job interview, turns out he was Canadian, security guard asks his name to which he replies "Matt Dillon" quick as a flash Security says, Bl**dy Hell, it's Gunsmoke !!! .........Yes he got the job, & yes, the name stuck too

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I raise you Ennio Morricone, no matter the film.

Oh, yes, the spaghetti westerns of my childhood.
Used to love watching a good one, I was always routing for the Indians!

I guess they are just not very politically correct - white blokes riding about killing indians then heading off to the whore house. they simply don't fit in with modern mores.

Pity really I loved a good western

You are probably correct.
Although, what I remember is the Indians ambushing the cowboys, while the goodies and the baddies were both white, fighting each other.