After a weeks hiatus, Way Back Wednesday returns with “The Cowboy Edition”.  Here we are celebrating the Cowboys of long ago, that made the westerns famous.  So here we celebrate the cowboys of the 50’s and 60’s, and the TV genre they created.

The Roy Rogers Show

The Roy Rogers Show was an American Western television series that ran for 6 seasons from 1951 to 1957 on NBC, with a total of 100 episodes. The series starred Roy Rogers,Trigger, his Golden Palomino and Dale Evans. It also featured Pat Brady, Roy’s sidekick in his out of control jeep, Nellibell, and Roy’s Wonder Dog, Bullet.

The Lone Ranger

Lone Ranger was the 1949–1957 television on ABC. The series starred Clayton Moore (though with John Hart as the Lone Ranger from 1952–1954) and Jay Silverheels as Tonto.

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp was a television series based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The series ran on ABC-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O’Brian as Earp.

Maverick

Maverick was a comedy-western television series cthat ran from 1957 to 1962 on ABC and featured James Garner, Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing traveling Mavericks (Bret, Bart, Beau, & Brent). Moore and Colbert were later additions, though there were never more than two current Mavericks in the series at any given time, and sometimes only one.

And that’s the cowboy edition of Way Back Wendesday.  Happy Trails until the next edition.

~Another Day