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LindaOH @LindaOHio (222417) • United States 21 Dec

Gunsmoke started on radio and ran from 1952 to 1961. In 1955 it was adapted for TV and ran until 1975. It won 15 Primetime Emmy Awards. Cast: U. S. Marshall Matt Dillon - James Arness Galen "Doc" Adams - Milburn Stone - Town...

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WEST

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222417) • United States 30 Sep

Do you love the old Westerns? There is a new channel WEST (Western Entertainment Series Television) which carries shows such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, The Wild Wild West, Have Gun Will Travel, Big Valley, Mutual of...

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Watching old westerns

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 22 Sep

Good morning, dear friends. After watching for a while several Christmas movies, I turned to spaguetti westerns with a very young Clint Eastwood. So I´m watching one that was not on my list called High Plains Drifter. Have you...

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Just me and the dogs

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 10 Apr 23

K left early this morning to go to work. Sophie is on the arm of the couch looking over my shoulder as I write this. Ace is upstairs in the bedroom, snoozing. It is still chilly outside, though it has warmed from 38F/3C to 43F/6C....

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Those Great Ole Western Movies

celticeagle @celticeagle (189880) • Boise, Idaho 13 May 22

Did you know that only three western movies have come away with Oscars? It's rather sad since there are so many really good western movies. I'm sure for most of you Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid come to mind. That was made in...

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A western after my nap.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 16 May 20

The movie had started but I learned its name. It is a 2016 film called Jane Got a Gun. It is a normal western with a band of very bad guys, a bad guy who was good after all and Jane who happened to be a very modern girl from the...

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Question Of The Day: Favorite Western Movies

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 17 Jun 19

Did you know more Westerns were produced in the 1950s than all other movie genres combined. Movies about the American frontier, gun-toting cowboys, and horse-riding outlaws dominated cinemas in the first half of the 20th Century....

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Ten TV Series That "Everybody" Watched Including Me: Gunsmoke (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 13 Jun 19

After letting you know what I didn't watch I'm presenting a countdown of ten classic shows that I DID watch. Some of these I watched more than others, but these are the classic TV shows that I have indeed seen. [b]#9:...

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Favorite TV Westerns

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 1 Sep 18

Another favorite TV Westerns, before I get to the big favorites, is one I ran into just a couple years ago when I was doing laundry at my daughters. Bat Masterson. Looking up information on IMDB, I found out Gene Barry was in...

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Favorite TV Westerns

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 18 Aug 18

Another favorite TV Western many might not know or remember is Bordertown. I ran into it quite by accident when it was in first-run and was sad to see it also short-lived, though this one had three seasons from...

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Favorite TV Westerns

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 16 Aug 18

I don't know how many of you remember a short-lived series called The Monroes. It was about a family of orphaned children who lost their parents in the first episode and had to learn to live on the frontier, making their home...

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Favorite TV Westerns

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 15 Aug 18

I looked up TV Westerns to decide which one I would choose next as one of my many favorites to find a long list of Westerns I had never heard of before, some I had forgotten about, and my top favorites. This next favorite Western...

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Favorite TV Westerns

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 14 Aug 18

As a kid, there were some programs I saw more than others. Primarily because I didn't control the television. My parents did. So, though, I liked most of the Westerns, I didn't see them as often as I liked. One of those was...

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Favorite TV Westerns

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 13 Aug 18

When I was growing up there were two kinds of shows on television: sitcoms and Westerns. I don't remember there being too much in the way of dramas. Programs typically lasted a half hour, with Westerns being an hour and some as...

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Favorite TV Westerns

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 12 Aug 18

How many of you are old enough to remember when Westerns weren't reruns? Today, I'm going to start a series of my favorite and maybe not so favorite TV Westerns. First up is Rawhide. Back in the early days of television, when...

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Obscure Word Of The Day Abactor

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Jun 18

Today's obscure dictionary word is Abactor, which refers to a cattle thief, or rustler. Abaction usually involves stampeding the cattle to round them up and steal them somewhere else, out of sight of the farmers and land-owners...

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What kind of movies don't you like to watch?

The Invisible Man @TheInvisibleMan (17594) 6 Aug 17

I'm completely addicted to movies, but Westerns and Musicals are definitely not my kind of thing. I even like some of them (but I can count on my fingers ), but nothing that made me go to the movies to...

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Another One Overlooked

me @dfollin (27267) • United States 25 Mar 17

Some of my relatives introduced me to a lot of western shows when I was a child. They still watch the old repeats everyday and almost everyday. When I was a child one of the show's that I really liked was "Wagon...

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Do you wonder why people follow then...

bonnie @bunnybon7 (50970) • Holiday, Florida 18 Feb 17

Do you wonder sometimes why some people follow you on here , then you never see them respond or post anything on your posts? weird. am I the only one wonders that? I am in one of my sad moods thinking of my coco and...

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What movies genre do you generally avoid watching?

The Invisible Man @TheInvisibleMan (17594) 16 Feb 17

Cinema has a wide range of genres, but there is always something we don't like right? The genres of movies I avoid watching (because I really don't like it) are musical and western....

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