50 Years of the Television Western
Author | : Ronald Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781434359254 |
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Author | : Ronald Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781434359254 |
Author | : Ben Costello |
Publisher | : Book Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-08-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781589852228 |
In recognition of the show's golden anniversary, author Ben Costello has produced a remarkable testament to the on-screen characters and off-screen individuals who made the story lines come alive. With lead performer biographies, hundreds of episode and behind-the-scenes photographs, complete episode logs, updates on all the surviving cast members, and interviews with the show's luminaries, Gunsmoke: An American Institution will be a favorite for fans and historians alike. Now available in paperback for the first time!
Author | : Alvin H. Marill |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0810881330 |
Westerns have featured prominently in films almost since motion pictures were first produced at the end of the nineteenth century and when televisions invaded American homes in the late 1940s and early '50s, Western programs filled the small screen landscape. Throughout the 1950s and well into the 1960s, these shows dominated television with such long-running successes as Bonanza, Wagon Train, and Maverick. And though the genre has fallen on hard times over the years, it has never died, as Hollywood continues to produce films, mini-series, and shows that keep the west alive. In Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders, Alvin H. Marill looks at the genre as it was represented from the beginning of television—from the twenty-year run of Gunsmoke to the brutal revisionist take of Deadwood. This volume encompasses all manifestations of the Western, including such series as Rawhide, The Virginian, and The Wild, Wild West, as well as movies-of the-week, mini-series, failed pilots, animated programs, documentaries, and even Western-themed episodes of non-Western series that provided their own spin on the genre.
Author | : Boyd Magers |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786420285 |
This collection features a diverse mixture of leading ladies of Westerns, along with several who are not quite as well known. Some toiled in B westerns, others worked exclusively at the A level, and a few were relegated to television. Those interviewed are Jane Adams, Julie Adams, Merry Anders, Vivian Austin, Joan Barclay, Patricia Blair, Pamela Blake, Adrian Booth, Genee Boutell, Lois Collier, Mara Corday, Gail Davis, Myrna Dell, Ann Doran, Faith Domergue, Dale Evans, Beatrice Gray, Coleen Gray, Anne Gwynne, Lois Hall, Kay Hughes, Marsha Hunt, Eilene Janssen, Anna Lee, Joan Leslie, Nan Leslie, Kay Linaker, Teala Loring, Lucille Lund, Beth Marion, Donna Martell, Kristine Miller, Peggy Moran, Maureen O'Hara, Debra Paget, Jean Porter, Paula Raymond, Jan Shepard, Marion Shilling, Roberta Shore, Elanor Stewart, Peggy Stewart, Linda Stirling, Gale Storm, Helen Talbot, Audrey Totter, Virginia Vale, Elena Verdugo, Jacqueline White and Gloria Winters. Gwynne, Hall, Storm and Vale provide forewords to the work.
Author | : Everett Aaker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Modeled after the Mack V. Wright 1920 film version, the 1949 western television series The Lone Ranger made Clayton Moore's masked character one of the most recognized in American popular culture. Other westerns followed and by 1959 there were 32 being shown daily on prime time television. Many of the stars of the nearly 75 westerns went on to become American icons and symbols of the Hollywood West. This encyclopedia includes every actor and actress who had a regular role in a television western from 1949 through 1959. The entries cite biographical and family details, accounts of how the player first broke into show business, and details of roles played, as well as opinions from the actors and their contemporaries. A full accounting of film, serial, and television credits is also included. The appendix lists 84 television westerns, with dates, show times, themes, and stars.
Author | : Ronald Jackson |
Publisher | : Virgin Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Western television programs |
ISBN | : 9780863698460 |
In this addition to the Virgin Film Library, American recording star and TV personality Ronald Jackson has explored the vast range of TV westerns and selected his favourite shows. Nostalgia buffs will relive such landmark series as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The High Chaparral, The Deputy and Have Gun, Will Travel.
Author | : Everett Aaker |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2017-06-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476662509 |
This biographical encyclopedia covers every actor and actress who had a regular role in a Western series on American television from 1960 through 1975, with analyses of key players. The entries provide birth and death dates, family information, and accounts of each player's career, with a cross-referenced videography. An appendix gives details about all Western series, network or syndicated, 1960-1975. The book is fully indexed.
Author | : Gary A. Yoggy |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
In June 1949, Hopalong Cassidy. Then Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, Zorro, Davy Crockett, the Cisco Kid, Matt Dillon, Bat Masterson, the Cartwrights, Hec Ramsey, Paladin ("Have Gun Will Travel")-no television genre has generated as many enduring characters as the Western. Gunsmoke, Death Valley Days, Bonanza, Maverick, and Wagon Train are just a few of the small-screen oaters that became instant classics. Recent years have seen a resurgence, with shows such as Lonesome Dove and The Young Riders updating and redefining the genre for a modern audience. Though the characters were different, Western shows' format often fell into one of several broad categories: marshals, sheriffs and other lawmen, wagon trains, cattle drives and ranchers, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns, and even spoofs. Arranged by categories, over 150 television Westerns are analyzed here, focusing on the characters, stories and why the shows succeeded or failed. How Native Americans have been portrayed is examined, as are such phenomena as single parent families (in shows such as The Big Valley, The Rifleman and Bonanza ), women, Asians and blacks.
Author | : Boyd Magers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Television actors and actresses |
ISBN | : |
Covers the 50 year evolution of the western on television. One hundred and ninety-six TV western series are presented chronologically with production details, photographs, trivia, select script pages, filming locations, advertising, and more.
Author | : Ben Costello |
Publisher | : Five Star Publications |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781589851665 |
In recognition of the show's golden anniversary, author Ben Costello has produced a remarkable testament to the on-screen characters and off-screen individuals who made the story lines come alive. With lead performer biographies, hundreds of episode and behind-the-scenes photographs, complete episode logs, updates on all the surviving cast members, and interviews with the show's luminaries, Gunsmoke: An American Institution will be a favourite for fans and historians alike. Now available in paperback for the first time!