When Cheyenne first hit television screens in 1955, the West had never looked so vast — or so real. In an era when most TV Westerns were half-hour morality plays shot on cramped backlots, Cheyenne ...

Westerns have been riding tall on television since the medium's very beginning. Long before superheroes, police procedurals or reality shows took over primetime, Americans were glued to their sets ...

Historically, Westernactors are so synonymous with the silver screen that it’s easy to forget some of the greats who made their names in TV. Whether it’s John Wayne’s surly heroes of the Old West or ...

In 1959, the top four most popular television shows in the United States were westerns. From humble beginnings the small-screen horse opera became a TV staple and cultural phenomenon in the 1950s and ...

Who doesn't love a good Western? Back in the 1950s, Westerns flooded the "Big Three" TV networks, and by the '60s, they were the most popular and prolific genre out there. While Westerns' popularity ...

He starred in one of the westerns that dominated TV in the late 1950s. After losing traction in Hollywood, he became a traveling clown. By Alex Traub Will Hutchins, who had a comically genteel ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

As classic 1950s episodes of “Gunsmoke” make it into the Nielsen streaming rankers, Weigel Broadcasting is capitalizing on the recent western revival by launching WEST, a new over-the-air broadcast ...

Feel free to connect with him or check out his work. He's everywhere — Upwork, YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Collider, LinkedIn, Instagram. Generate a summary of this story The Western TV genre ...

Will Hutchins, who had a comically genteel starring role during the craze for television Westerns in the 1950s, playing a sheriff who favored cherry soda over whiskey on "Sugarfoot," died on April 21 ...