7.5 /10
The Range Rider is an American Western television series that aired in syndication from 1951 to 1953. A single lost episode surfaced and was broadcast in 1959. The Range Rider was also broadcast on British television during the 1960s, and in Melbourne, Australia during the 1950s.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1951 - 1953
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 77
Director: Frank McDonald
Producer: Armand Schaefer , Gene Autry
Stars: Jock Mahoney , Dickie Jones , Lonnie Burr , Laurette Luez , Nan Leslie
7.5 /10
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1955 - 1958
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 75
Director: Eddie Dew , Earl Bellamy , George W. Trendle
Producer:
Stars: Dick Simmons , Kasey Rogers , Harry Lauter , Charles Stevens , Tom Keene , John Mitchum
7.5 /10
Little House on the Prairie, also known as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, is a five-hour miniseries which was broadcast on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series. It was made in 2004. It was directed by David L. Cunningham.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: NR . 2005
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 6
Director: David L. Cunningham , Hans Proppe
Producer: Michelle Wong , Hans Proppe
Stars: Cameron Bancroft , Erin Cottrell , Danielle C. Ryan , Gregory Sporleder , Nathaniel Arcand , Kyle Chavarria
7.5 /10
Bret Maverick is a 1981-82 American Western television series starring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 series Maverick: a professional poker player traveling alone year after year through the Old West from riverboat to saloon. In this sequel series, Maverick has settled down in Sweetwater, Arizona Territory, where he owns a ranch and is co-owner of the town's saloon. However, Maverick is still always on the lookout for his next big score, and continues to gamble and practice various con games whenever the chance arises. The series was developed by Gordon Dawson, and produced by Garner's company Cherokee Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: TV-PG . 1981 - 1982
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 18
Director: Stuart Margolin , Leo Penn , Jeff Bleckner
Producer:
Stars: James Garner , Richard Hamilton , Darleen Carr , Ramon Bieri , Ed Bruce , Priscilla Morrill
7.5 /10
Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1957 - 1958
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 32
Director:
Producer:
Stars: Alan Hale Jr. , Dub Taylor , Eddy Waller , Mary Lawrence , Bobby Clark , John Eldredge
7.5 /10
Hawkeye is a television series, airing in syndication for one season during 1994-1995, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell. The series was filmed in North Vancouver and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Based on characters from the Leatherstocking Tales, a set of novels written by James Fenimore Cooper, the series takes place in 1755 Hudson Valley, New York during the French and Indian War. It follows the main character, Natty Bumppo, his Native American companion Chingachgook, trading post owner Elizabeth Shields and other people stationed at or living in the vicinity of Fort Bennington.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1994 - 1995
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 22
Director: James A. Contner , George Bloomfield , Jeff Woolnough
Producer: Stephen J. Cannell
Stars: Lee Horsley , Lynda Carter , Rodney A. Grant , Garwin Sanford , Lochlyn Munro , Jed Rees
7.4 /10
Whispering Smith is an American Western series that aired on NBC. Based on a 1948 movie, the series stars Audie Murphy as Tom "Whispering" Smith, a police detective in Denver, Colorado. Filming of the series began in 1959, but the program did not air until May 8, 1961, because of unexpected production problems. Whispering Smith combines elements of CBS's Have Gun – Will Travel starring Richard Boone, NBC's Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson, the syndicated Shotgun Slade with Scott Brady, and ABC's The Man From Blackhawk, a Stirling Silliphant production starring Robert Rockwell. While the setting of the series is unique, it is otherwise a standard detective program.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: TV-PG . 1961
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 26
Director: Christian Nyby
Producer:
Stars: Audie Murphy , Guy Mitchell , James Best , Lyn Thomas , Sam Buffington
7.3 /10
Boots and Saddles is an American Western television series created by Robert A. Cinader which aired in syndication from 1957 to 1958.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1957 - 1958
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 38
Director: William J. Hole Jr. , Bernard L. Kowalski , Robert A. Cinader
Producer:
Stars: John Pickard , Gardner McKay , Dave Willock , Patrick McVey , James Dobson , Peter Brocco
7.2 /10
The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29, 1979, to April 19, 1979; and continued as a television series from January 19, 1980, to March 15, 1980. The 1979 miniseries showed the family moving from Virginia to Wyoming. When the TV series commenced in 1980, the pioneers were shown en route along the California Trail from Wyoming to Sacramento, California.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1979 - 1980
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 18
Director: Mel Stuart , Nicholas Webster , David Dortort
Producer: David Dortort , Paul Freeman , Alan Landsburg
Stars: Delta Burke , Dick Van Patten , Brett Cullen , Ben Murphy , Mitchell Ryan , Rosemary Harris
7.2 /10
Rough Riders is a 1997 television miniseries directed and co-written by John Milius about future President Theodore Roosevelt and the regiment. The series prominently shows the bravery of the volunteers at the Battle of San Juan Hill, part of the Spanish–American War of 1898. It was released on DVD in 2006. The series originally aired on TNT with a four-hour running time, including commercials.
Average Episode Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: . 1997
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 2
Director: John Milius , Hugh Wilson
Producer:
Stars: Tom Berenger , Sam Elliott , Gary Busey , Brad Johnson , Illeana Douglas , Dale Dye
7.2 /10
Hey Dude is an American Western comedy series that aired from 1989 to 1991. The show was broadcast on the Nickelodeon network, and aired reruns on Nickelodeon until early 1999, and now on TeenNick ever since late 2011. Hey Dude was Nickelodeon's second original live action television series, following the 1984 series Out of Control. The series was set on the fictional "Bar None Dude Ranch" near the city of Tucson, Arizona. It portrayed the lives of the ranch's owner, his son, a female ranch hand, and four teenage summer employees. Hey Dude was a comedy geared towards a teenage audience. The complete series have been released on DVD. Only the first four seasons are on iTunes.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1989 - 1990
Total Seasons: 6 . Total Episodes: 66
Director:
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Stars: David Brisbin , Kelly Brown , Debra Kalman , David Lascher , Christine Taylor , Joe Torres
7.1 /10
A sheriff keeps law in Madrid County, California.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1971 - 1972
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 24
Director: Anthony Wilson , Rick Husky
Producer:
Stars: Glenn Ford , Edgar Buchanan , Taylor Lacher , Victor Campos , Peter Ford , Betty Ann Carr
7.1 /10
Union Pacific is a Western television series starring Jeff Morrow, Judson Pratt and Susan Cummings that aired in syndication from 1958 until 1959. This show was inspired by the 1939 film also named Union Pacific, starring Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Preston. The series follows the exploits of Bart McClelland, played by Morrow, as he supervises the construction and extension of the Union Pacific Railroad west of Omaha, Nebraska, to Promontory, northwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. McClelland was mostly concerned with right-of-way issues, which could be affected by stubborn landowners, ranchers, Indians, outlaws, and other factors. Helping McClelland with his work was surveyor Billy Kincaid, played by Pratt. Susan Cummings rounded out the cast as Georgia, proprietor of the Golden Nugget Saloon, the rolling bar that followed the railroad workers along the tracks. Union Pacific never developed a following and was cancelled after a single season. Union Pacific was filmed by California National Productions at the Iverson's Movie Ranch in Chatsworth in Los Angeles County, California. Other offerings were the syndicated Boots and Saddles and Pony Express and the NBC anthology series, Frontier, which aired from 1955-1956.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1958
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 32
Director:
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Stars: Jeff Morrow , Susan Cummings , Judson Pratt
7.1 /10
Comanche Moon is a television miniseries that is an adaptation of the novel of the same name. It aired on CBS beginning Sunday, January 13, and continuing Tuesday, January 15, and Wednesday, January 16, 2008. It is a prequel to the original Lonesome Dove miniseries.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr 30` . MMPA: . 2008
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 3
Director: Simon Wincer
Producer: Diana Ossana , Lynn Kressel , Larry McMurtry
Stars: Linda Cardellini , Val Kilmer , Steve Zahn , Elizabeth Banks , Melanie Lynskey , Karl Urban
6.9 /10
The irresistible and charming Ernest Pratt is a dime-store novelist who is living out the adventures of his fictional character Nicodemus Legend in the Old West. Alongside Janos Bartok, a brilliant scientist, the duo teams up to fight for justice using Legend's celebrity and Bartok's outlandish inventions to make a real legend.
Average Episode Run Time: 45` . MMPA: . 1995
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 13
Director: Bob Balaban , Michael Vejar , Charles Correll
Producer:
Stars: Richard Dean Anderson , John de Lancie , Mark Adair-Rios , Jarrad Paul , Stephanie Beacham , Tim Thomerson
6.9 /10
The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which is a remake of the Japanese film Seven Samurai. It aired between 1998 and 2000. It was filmed in Newhall, California. The pilot, scripted by Chris Black and Frank Q. Dobbs, was filmed in Mescal, Arizona and the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona, near Tombstone. Robert Vaughn, who had starred in the original 1960 movie, frequently guest-starred as a crusading judge.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1998 - 2000
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 23
Director: Peter Markle , Jerry Jameson , Christopher Cain
Producer: Richard Barton Lewis
Stars: Eric Close , Dale Midkiff , Anthony Starke , Michael Biehn , Dana Barron , Laurie Holden
6.8 /10
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
Average Episode Run Time: 30` . MMPA: . 1951 - 1958
Total Seasons: 8 . Total Episodes: 113
Director: Frank McDonald , Louis King , Jean Yarbrough
Producer:
Stars: Guy Madison , Andy Devine , Belle Mitchell , Richard Alexander , Francis Ford , Gloria Winters
6.8 /10
The Mystic Warrior is a 1984 TV movie about a band of Native American Sioux and the efforts of one man to save his people from destruction through the use of mysterious powers handed down by ancestors. The movie was originally a nine hour mini-series entitled Hanta Yo to be aired in 1980, instead aired in 1984 as a five hour mini series with the new name. The movie was never released on VHS or DVD although it has been shown on cable TV. Mystic Warrior was entertaining, but failed to draw viewers away from such formidable competition as The Jeffersons, Alice, and One Day at a Time.
Average Episode Run Time: 45` . MMPA: . 1985
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 5
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Producer: Paul Freeman , Stan Margulies , David L. Wolper
Stars: Robert Beltran , Nick Ramus , Devon Ericson , Rion Hunter , Ron Soble , James Remar
6.7 /10
Young Maverick is a 1979 television series that unsuccessfully attempted to recapture some of the magic of the highly successful 1957 series Maverick, which had starred James Garner as roving gambler Bret Maverick. Charles Frank played Ben Maverick, the son of Bret's first cousin Beau Maverick, making him Bret's first cousin once removed. Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard played his girlfriend Nell, while John Dehner appeared as a frontier marshal who had arrested Ben's father Beau decades before. The series was cancelled by CBS after only eight hour-long episodes had been shown, leaving several which were never aired. The 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick, featuring Garner as Bret, Frank as Ben, Jack Kelly as Bret's brother Bart Maverick, and Blanchard as Nell, served as the pilot for the series. Garner appeared as Bret Maverick in the very first scene of the series, but only for a few moments. Among the actors appearing on the series were Howard Duff, John McIntire, James Woods, Donna Mills, and Harry Dean Stanton. Roger Moore, who played Beau Maverick in the original series, never appeared in Young Maverick. Despite the title, Frank was three years older than Garner had been at the launch of the original series.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1979 - 1980
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 8
Director:
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6.7 /10
Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.
Average Episode Run Time: 4hr . MMPA: . 1995
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 2
Director: David Greene
Producer: Joyce Eliason , Susan Bluestein , Donna Ekholdt
Stars: Sidney Poitier , Michael Moriarty , Farrah Fawcett , Katharine Isabelle , Joanna Going , Billy Wirth
