TV WESTERNS – 50s, 60s & 70s – PT2.

TV WESTERNS – 50s, 60s & 70s – PT2.

June 26, 2020 Alan Royle 2

      ALASKANS, THE   1959-60 (37 episodes)   Roger Moore (1927 – 2017). Moore played the lead in The Alaskans, a character with the unlikely name of Silky Harris. The first episode aired on October 4, 1959, but in January 1960 the Screen Writers Guild went on strike and […]

MOVIE & TV HORSES DOWN THE AGES.

February 4, 2019 Alan Royle 0

William S. Hart & Fritz Like most kids who attended Saturday matinees back in the fifties, I knew details about all the cowboy stars, who rode which horse and why. Most of my movie heroes back then were cowboy stars and that didn’t change when TV came along in Western […]