A western television show is a cowboy story which takes place in the old west and involves cowboys, cattle ranchers, miners, farmers, Indians, guns and horses. It was the most popular genre of TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, when a couple hundred of them were aired. Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ...

1. Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
2. Alias Smith and Jones
3. The Big Valley
4. Bonanza
5. Branded
6. Daniel Boone (TV series)
7. Four Feather Falls (puppet show)
8. Gunsmoke
9. Have Gun, Will Travel
10. Hec Ramsey
11. Here Come the Brides
12. The High Chapparal
13. The Lone Ranger
14. Maverick
15. Rawhide
16. The Rifleman
17. The Roy Rogers Show
18. The Virginian
19. Wagon Train TV Show
20. Wanted, Dead or Alive
21. The Wild Wild West
22. Zorro

Kung Fu might also be included since it takes place in the same era. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. ... Alias Smith and Jones was a television comedy-western series on ABC from 1971 to 1973, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. ... The Big Valley was a television Western which ran on ABC from 1965 through 1969. ... This article discusses the television series. ... Branded was a Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966. ... Daniel Boone was a TV Western that aired from 1964-1970. ... Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Sylvia and Gerry Anderson, from an idea by Barry Gray. ... A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ... Gunsmoke was a long-running old-time radio and television western drama program. ... Have Gun, Will Travel was a popular American television Western that aired from on CBS 1957 through 1963. ... Here Come the Brides was a television program that aired on the ABC television network from 1968 to 1970. ... The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Stryker of Buffalo, New York. ... Maverick is a comedy-western television series that ran from 1957 to 1962 on ABC. The series starred James Garner as Bret Maverick, a wise-cracking gambler, and Jack Kelly as his brother Bart. ... Rawhide is a hide or animal skin that has not been exposed to tanning and thus is much lighter in colour than treated animal hides. ... Chuck Connors as The Rifleman The Rifleman was a 1950s television program. ... The Virginian is an album by Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, released on Mint Records in 1997. ... The Wild Wild West Season 1 VHS The Wild Wild West was an American TV show that ran from 1965 to 1969. ... Guy Williams as Zorro Zorro, Spanish for fox, is the name used by a fictional character, a Mexican-era California masked hero and master swordsman of the Old West, whose real name is (Don Diego Vega in the original story). ... Kung Fu is a television series that ran for three years beginning in 1972, about the adventures of a Shaolin monk in the Wild West armed only with his skill in martial arts. ...

McCloud was a fusion of the western with the modern big-city crime drama. McCloud was an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. ...

Snowy River: The McGregor Saga has similar themes but is set in Australia, so it might be called a "southern".

External links

• TV Westerns Listings for 200 Western shows