Television Westerns: Major and Minor Series 1946‐1978

“They came riding into America’s living rooms in one form or another from the earliest days of television and rode off into the sunset in the 1970s”. This opening sentence of the book’s introduction says it all ‐ this book is the American TV armchair enthusiast’s reference work. It will have little attraction for the non‐American reader, since only a few of the western series which are listed were shown in this country and even those which were, such as Bonanza and the most famous of them all, Gunsmoke, are provided with information relating to their American transmissions. There is...