The Cowboys

[Deadeye Dick]

Is this site nostalgic or what? http://objflicks.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm
Deadeye Dick

[Texas Lawdog]

It's a shame that so many of those stars are no longer with us.  It brought back some great memories of the western movies on Sat. afternoons and the TV westerns that were on almost every night of the week.

[Ozark Tracker]

I sure remember Saturday nights as a kid,  all the goods ones were on    seemed like everybody watched and knew what went on.

[Texas Lawdog]

I didn't see Dale Robertson in that clip, I'm suprised he didn't make it. I get the Westerns channel on my Dish Network dish, so I get to see Maverick, Bat Masterson, and the Rifleman on a daily basis.

[Ozark Tracker]

We get that channel, good to see em again, but you know there are some that I never do see, don't know what happened to them or if I'm just missing em,  Stoney Burke,  The Rebel, and them 20 mule team Borax shows.

[Deadeye Dick]

I'm with you pards. TV took a nose dive. I heard Gene Autry's "Here comes Santy Claus" on the radio yesterday, brought back good memories. I forgot all about Sugar Foot until I watched the video. The good ol' days.

[Texas Lawdog]

We only got 2 channels on our TV when I was a kid.  Channel 10 which was CBS and Channel 4 which was NBC.  We got ABC in 61. I was a senior in HS in 65 when we got a color TV.

[Deadeye Dick]

TL, I hear ya. Now I've got a hundred and some channels and nothing worth watching except maybe for the outdoor channel.

[Russ T Chambers]

Encore Westerns Channel is planning on putting Cheyenne in its lineup starting in January.  Haven't seen that show in a coons age (and that must be one old coon )!   

[Texas Lawdog]

The Westerns Channel is always good, then American Movie Classics, and Turner Classic Movies. I got a goodly amount of my own DVDs and we have Netflix. Most of the time I can find something I like.

[Texas Lawdog]

I figure it's only a matter of time before the Westerns channel gets all those WB western shows. I remember when Bonanza and Tales of Wells Fargo first came out, they were the only Western shows filmed in color. NBC and RCA Victor worked together to get folks to buy these expensive color sets in order to watch the shows in Color.

[Deadeye Dick]

Yea I guess I misspoke. The Westerns Channel, History Channel, Outdoor Channel, Versus Channel and the Nat. Geo channel are about the only ones I watch anymore 'cept for college football.

[Ozark Tracker]

we never did have a color TV at home while I was there, so it was like seein a whole new show and you could see all the colors,  I even now days will find myself thinkin,  so that's what color that was. 

[Leo Tanner]

Had a black an white set when I was a kid.  Watch the little dot in the center of the screen til it warmed up then it would come back when ya shut it off an was cooling down.  Everything but reruns was in color then so a lot of scenes were to dark ta make anythin out in B&W.  Had ta mess with the fine tuning dial that was a ring set around the channel knob.  UHF was even more fun.  Our first remote control was attatched by a wire that ya had ta stretch across the room ta reach the couch.  This ended my job of being the channel changer.  Now everybody wants control with the clicker.  Used ta be the youngest or whoever was closest ta the set had ta get up an do it.

     Oh, an the History Channel is worth watchin too.  I don't know what Versus is, they don't offer it here.


Leo

[Deadeye Dick]

Leo,
Versus is listed on the channel as VS. It is generally sports including some shooting and outdoor programs. I get it with Dish Satellite programing. Live too far out to get cable or antenna.
Deadeye Dick

[Ozark Tracker]

is that the channel that Man vs  Wild is on,  happen to catch him in the Louisanna swamps last week,   

[Deadeye Dick]

Ozark Tracker,
We get that on the Discovery channel. Man vs. Wild, Survivorman among others.

[Texas Lawdog]

Versus does the NHL during the season and also the PBR(Bull Riding).

[Ozark Tracker]

That's probably what we get it on here, just never have checked,
we've got Dish

[Texas Lawdog]

Some of those other Encore channels have Westerns once in a while. I've got "Bad Girls" on the Action channel right now. Not much of a plot, but the scenery ain't too bad.