cowboys and indians on tv !

[miffy053]

hello

I am studying WESTERN STARS AND COWBOYS AND INDIAN TV PROGRAMMES .I was'nt realkly around when they were on tv so could some people explain how the cowboys and how the indians were shown to the audience. Like the indians always chased the cowboys !

Thanks

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[B00]

This might help

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[spudqueen]

Personally I wouldn't class spaghetti westerns as being in the same vein as cowboys & Injuns. Try here for some TV shows. There were quite a lot of cowboy & Indian films around at the same time, but sorry I can't think of the title of any of them at the moment!

[malibu-sioux]

Apart from the indians were bad,the cowboys were good and they stole the land from the indians,,,basically,

[Kay]

And they all rode around the same rock about 50 times!

[mushroom25]

I stand to be corrected, but I seem to remember The High Chaparral as depicting the cowboy's relationship with the Apaches as different from other shows of the time - http://www.thehighchaparral.com/

[curiosity]

I remember loving Geoff (or Jeff) Chandler, he usually played an Indian, and was never portrayed as nasty as he was usually the star of the film.

[waimarie]

Hi miffy053, I seem to remember Wagon Train with Ward Bond as an ongoing series. Also, a young Clint Eastwood as a character Rowdy Yates, maybe in Wagon Train too. Then there was Honcho about a US army scout out west. At that time there was the beginning of a more sympathetic approach to the Indians (alright, native Americans). I still think the best film of them all was The Last of the Mohicans.

[marwel7]

There is a feature length episode of The Big Valley on Five next week in the afternoon.Five is where feature length episode of a lot of these series turn up,though irregularly.And I have seen Bonanza on DVD in HMV.

There was a book about TV westerns but I don't know if is still in print.

There should be websites for most of the series,such as Alias Smith & Jones,Bonanza,Maverick,High Chapparel,Lancer,there was a series about General Custer,The Big Valley,Wyatt Earp and Gunsmoke.

More recent examples of the genre include the Lonesome Dove series.Bonanza was remade in the 90's I think.And then there is Deadwood.

[marwel7]

I forgot about The Magnificent Seven TV series from the 90s.ITV showed it a couple of years ago and it was great fun.The actors obviously had a great time,and seemed tome to to have a contest to out macho each other.