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Gary W. Graley

Gary W. Graley

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Hi folks, I’ve always been partial to westerns and recently found on the free streaming service called Tubi you can watch on your smart TV too, the old series “Maverick”
Now there’s also a newer one called “Bret Maverick” but I would suggest watching the original one first.

I generally play an episode at dinner and while my wife isn’t too keen on it she does watch it along with me.

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Gary W. Graley said:
Hi folks, I’ve always been partial to westerns and recently found on the free streaming service called Tubi you can watch on your smart TV too, the old series “Maverick”
Now there’s also a newer one called “Bret Maverick” but I would suggest watching the original one first.

I generally play an episode at dinner and while my wife isn’t too keen on it she does watch it along with me.

G2
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If you have access to Pluto TV there are also a lot of old Western TV shows that you can watch there, including "Gunsmoke" (Arness), "Wanted Dead or Alive" (McQueen) and "The Rifleman" (Connors).

Other than westerns, there are also a lot of old TV shows like "Mission Impossible," "Star Trek," "Perry Mason" and the "Andy Griffith Show" that are available on Pluto TV as well.

I have access to "Yellowstone" (a modern Western) on the Peacock Channel that some people rave about but, after watching a few episodes, I just couldn't get into it.
 
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Thanks and I agree about the yellowstone thing too, just not for me, others must love it and good for them.

Tubi also has the Wanted Dead or Alive, been through all the Mission Impossibles and Star Trek's as well as all of the Rifleman ones too.

Pluto TV, they have David Hasselhoff plugging for them I think, I looked at them once but didn't want to have too many options but may have to revisit it.
G2
 
Yep, only on Netflix but worth the watch, enjoyed them, glad that Netflix picked them up when they tossed them on the other network.
G2
 
I am an old Western aficionado, love most all Westerns. My regular cable TV has a Western channel, all Westerns all day. From 2 PM, "The Deputy", 'Wanted, Dead or Alive", Wagon Train", "Laramie", "Death Valley Days", "Tales of Wells Fargo", "The Rifleman", and "the Virginian", all other times are old Western movies. Another channel has Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Have Gun Will Travel, while another has Rawhide, Cheyanne, and High Chaparral. Weekends another channel is all day Westerns on weekends with TV Shane, How the West Was Won, Guns of Paradise, and others. Two of my childhood favorites I never see are Sugarfoot and The Rebel. I do like Yellowstone, won't pay for streaming, but would love to watch the prequel 1888.
 
While strictly not a western, I've always liked FireFly too, shame it was cut down before gaining better recognition, there is a following but it's highly doubtful it will ever resurface.
G2
 
Yancy Derringer (1958) is on Tubi.

In case you've forgotten the back story, Yancy, a former Confederate officer turned gambler, was a secret agent for the Federal City Administrator of Reconstruction-era New Orleans. Read the Wikipedia overview and the first episode summary, it's just a bit off the beaten path.

Yancy's decaying mansion was the Tara set from Gone With the Wind, which stood on the backlot at Desilu Studios. His weapon collection made a deep impression on me at age 11, and I can give you a better summary than Wikipedia or IMDb. He carried two Sharps 4-barrel derringers, one in a wrist holster and one in his hat; one Remington Model 95 double-barrel derringer in his right vest pocket; one Colt Lightning revolver in a shoulder holster; one Colt Single Action Army revolver in a belt holster; and a sword cane. The Colt revolvers were anachronisms in 1868 New Orleans, but hey this was supposed to be a Western. His Pawnee bodyguard Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah carried an Arkansas toothpick in a neck sheath and a not sawed-off shotgun. Pahoo either threw the dagger or blasted someone both barrels in every episode.
 
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Big fan of Westerns here - movies and TV shows. Inherited from my dad.

Maverick was special. So much the opposite of all the other westerns of that era with their larger than life tough guy heroes like Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne, Bonanza, Trackdown, Rawhide, Wanted Dead or Alive, etc. Just the right mixture of drama and comedy.

Perhaps my all-time favorite TV episode ever made was an episode of Maverick called "Gun-Shy" which was a send-up of all the other westerns of that era - especially Gunsmoke. They had their own version of just about every character from the 1950s version Gunsmoke. Absolutely hilarious.

There were a LOT of anachronisms in those shows. Bonanza was terrible. The time period for the show was supposedly about 1860 to 1867. Yet the characters all used Remington 1875 Army revolvers, Colt 1873 SAA revolvers, Winchester 1873 rifles, even Winchester 1892s. It was a bad joke. More likely than all the lever action repeating rifles and cartridge pistols they should have had muzzle loaders and cap and ball revolvers, like the Colt 1851 Navy revolver.
 
Netflix recently added "The Long Riders"
4 sets of actual brothers playing 4 sets of brothers. Keach & Carradine brothers playing the Younger's and James'.
Music by Ry Cooder.
One of the best modern Westerns made.

Have Gun Will Travel is on a couple networks. MeTV being one of them....

The one I want to see come back is Chuck Conners' "Branded"
 
I love westerns. While Dirty Binch remains my all-time favorite, I do enjoy the recent (say 15-20 years or so) resurgence of the genre. For me, the remake of 3:10 To Yuma is pretty dang good. I liked the modernized Dirty Dozen with Denzel Washington, but it’s not nearly as nostalgic as the original. I know that the super gritty Tarantino movies Django Unchained and Hateful Eight would probably not be up your alley, but, personally, I think they are really well done.
 
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Some good tips there guys, thanks! and that reminded me of one I enjoyed a bit as well, made me think more about how hard life was when the trains were making their way across the country, 'Hell on Wheels' some no nonsense kind of guys and gals in that one too.
G2
 
Hard not to like Open Range !
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There were a LOT of anachronisms in those shows. Bonanza was terrible. The time period for the show was supposedly about 1860 to 1867. Yet the characters all used Remington 1875 Army revolvers, Colt 1873 SAA revolvers, Winchester 1873 rifles, even Winchester 1892s. It was a bad joke. More likely than all the lever action repeating rifles and cartridge pistols they should have had muzzle loaders and cap and ball revolvers, like the Colt 1851 Navy revolver.
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In Gunsmoke "Doc's Revenge" (Season 1, Episode 29), Doc Adams loaded and brandished a Colt 1851 Navy revolver which he kept in his office. That was the only time I've seen a percussion revolver realistically loaded in movies or TV. In one of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns, he had a pair of fantasy 1851 Navy revolvers with quick change cylinders that shot into his hands from loaders up his sleeves or in his pants (I forget which). It was so ridiculous I watched it twice!
 
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I love westerns. While Dirty Binch remains my all-time favorite, I do enjoy the recent (say 15-20 years or so) resurgence of the genre. For me, the remake of 3:10 To Yuma is pretty dang good. I liked the modernized Dirty Dozen with Denzel Washington, but it’s not nearly as nostalgic as the original. I know that the super gritty Tarantino movies Django Unchained and Hateful Eight would probably not be up your alley, but, personally, I think they are really well done.
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"Dirty Binch"? Do you mean "The Wild Bunch"?

The "Dirty Dozen" with Denzel Washington? Do you mean the remake of "The Magnificent 7" w/Denzel in it? It was Jim Brown (the only Black actor in the film, who previously was a HOF running back for the Browns) who was in the "Dirty Dozen."

LOL!!! :rolleyes:

The Wild Bunch and the original versions of The Magnificent 7 and 3:10 to Yuma were GREAT movies (not just westerns). The Magnificent 7, of course, was based on the 7 Samurai

The US remake of "The Magnificent 7" and "3:10 to Yuma" were just ok IMO, as was "Django Unchained." Didn't think much of the "Hateful 8," nor did the critics. I've seen almost all of Tarantino's films and have many of them on DVD, but frankly I'm not a (big) fan.
 
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