.TV WESTERNS – PT23

TV WESTERNS – PT23

January 27, 2022 Alan Royle 0

    THE LEGEND OF JESSE JAMES (1965-66) 34 EPISODES       This series was shot in black and white by 20th Century Fox and released on the ABC network. It received an unprecedented volume of fan mail, most of it directed at the charismatic Christopher Jones, who starred as the […]

IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY…

August 9, 2019 Alan Royle 10

    Station promo for opening night October 16, 1959 Television came to my home town of Perth, Western Australia at 5.30 pm, Friday, October 16, 1959. I was 12 years old and living with my grand-parents in East Fremantle, about 13 miles south of Perth, at the time. My […]

TV – When the western was king – PT2.

June 25, 2018 Alan Royle 7

  Part two of this article looks at the 25 television westerns from the 1949-69 era that were the most successful, according to the number of episodes in each. There may be a few surprises, although number one will come as no surprise at all to anyone who remembers the […]