FANatical About TV Westerns

Television Westerns are a sub-genre of the Western, a genre of film, fiction, drama, etc., in which stories are set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "Indian Wars."

When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV westerns quickly became an audience favorite.  The peak year for television westerns was 1959, with 26 such shows airing during prime-time. In the 1970s, new elements were incorporated into TV westerns, such as crime drama and mystery whodunit elements.

In the 1990s and 2000s, hour-long westerns and slickly packaged made-for-TV movie westerns were introduced.

• A

  • Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

  • Adventures of Champion

  • Adventures of Jim Bowie

  • Adventures of Kit Carson

  • Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

  • Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

  • Alaskans

  • Alias Smith and Jones

  • Americans

  • Annie Oakley (TV)

• B

  • Barbary Coast

  • Bat Masterson

  • Bearcats!

  • Best of the West

  • Big Valley

  • Black Saddle

  • Birthplace - TV Stars Match Game

  • Bonanza

  • Boots and Saddles

  • Bordertown

  • Branded

  • Brave Eagle

  • Bret Maverick (TV series)

  • Broken Arrow (TV series)

  • Bronco

  • Buckskin

  • Buffalo Bill Jr.

• C

  • Cade's County

  • Californians

  • Casey Jones

  • Cheyenne List of Quizzes

  • Chisholms

  • Cimarron City

  • Cimarron Strip

  • Circus Boy

  • Cisco Kit

  • Colt .45 (TV)

  • Cowboy G-Men

  • Cowboys

  • Custer

• D

  • Dakotas

  • Daniel Boone

  • Death Valley Days

  • Deputy

  • Destry

  • Dirty Sally

  • Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

  • Dundee and the Culhane

  • Dusty's Trail

• E

  • Empire

• F

  • F Troop

  • Frontier Doctor

  • Fury

• G

  • Gene Autry Show

  • Gunsmoke List of Quizzes

• H

  • Have Gun - Will Travel List of Quizzes

  • The High Chaparral

  • Hopalong Cassidy (TV)

• L

  • Laramie

  • Law of the Plainsman

  • Lawman

  • Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

  • Little House on the Prairie

  • Lone Ranger (TV)

• M

  • Marshal of Gunsight Pass

  • Maverick (TV) List of Quizzes

• R

  • Range Rider

  • Rawhide List of Quizzes

  • Rebel

  • Restless Gun

  • Rifleman, the List of Quizzes

  • Roy Rogers Show (TV)

• S

  • Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

  • Sky King

  • Sugarfoot

• T

  • Tales of Wells Fargo

  • Texan

  • Tombstone Territory

  • Trackdown

• U

  • Union Pacific

• V

  • Virginian

  • Virginian (2000) (TV)

• W

  • Wagon Train

  • Wanted: Dead or Alive

  • Who Am I?  TV Western's Woman of the West

  • Wild Wild West

• Z

  • Zorro (1957 TV series)

Match Game

• TV Western Star Match Game

• TV Western Stars Match Game #2, the

More TV Westerns

• TV Westerns 14
  Empire, Father Murphy, Frontier, Frontier Circus, and The Gray Ghost

• TV Westerns 15
  Guns of Will Sonnett, Gunslinger, Hawkeye, Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, Hec Ramsey, and Here Comes the Bridges

• TV Westerns 16
  Hondo, Hotel De Paree, How the West was Won, Iron Horse, Jefferson Drum, Johnny Ringo, Judge Roy Bean, Klondike, Kodiak, and Kung Fu

• TV Westerns 17
  Lancer, Laramie, Laredo, Law of the Plainsman, The Lazarus Man, and The Legend of Jesse James

• TV Western 18
  Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, The Loner, Mackenzie's Raiders, A Man Called Shenandoah, Man From Blackhawk, Man without a Gun, The Men from Shiloh, The Monroes, My Friend Flicka, Nichols, and Northwest Passage

• TV Western 19
  The Oregon Trail, The Outcasts, Outlaws, The Outlaws, Overland Trail, Paradise, Pistols 'N Petticoats, Pony Express, The Quest, Rango, Riverboat, The Road West

• TV Western 20
  The Rounders, Sara, Shane, Sheriff of Cochise, Shotgun Slade, Stagecoach West, Stoney Burke, Tales of The Texas Rangers, and 26 Men