Poll: Which Western series from the '50s and '60s is your favorite?

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Western shows made a significant impact on television. It became so popular that every network wanted a series that focused on the genre, attempting to get a piece of Western success.

There are so many different shows to choose from that it's almost impossible to pick one as your favorite. However, let's say you have a few hours to kill. Which series would you choose?

Welcome to the ultimate Western battle. 

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  1. Which western series from the '50s and '60s is your favorite?

Poll: Which Western series from the '50s and '60s is your favorite?

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WizardofOdds 22 days ago
Values on the Rifleman are true to the heart and meaningful. Characters are well played
and the music adds to the drama.
TheFanFromUNCLE 7 months ago
Of the selections, I voted Gunsmoke but I also love The Virginian and The Wild Wild West.
Thacket 13 months ago
My favorite is Bonanza, but I also like Gunsmoke, Maverick, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Rifleman and Wagon Train. I don't like Have Gun-Will Travel, although the name is great
JERRY6 16 months ago
they are all good Gunsmoke Bonanza HGWT mAVERICK Rifleman can watch them all over and over
marmetv20 17 months ago
18% Bonanza I had little Joe and his horse
LH 17 months ago
Bonanza was the only western I really watched….at least, the earlier ones. Didn’t like the later ones with Mitch Vogel. And I never saw Gunsmoke
Snickers 17 months ago
Asked which western was my favorite and I picked Wanted Dead or Alive. Only 20% similar but that's O.K with me.
RobertK 17 months ago
I picked Maverick. I like Brett's "Devil May Care" attitude and the way he gets in and out of trouble, when it finds him, or he finds it! Once I start watching the episode, I'm hooked and have to watch it to the end...
Tommygunz 17 months ago
For me it was Bonanza, I didn’t have a favorite character, I like all the main characters equally, how can you not like a show that makes you feel like that. By the way, I didn’t see the Virginian on the list, that was a very good western too with good characters and beautiful color sceneries.
JamesDean59 17 months ago
How can you not love a Winchester that rapid fires like Lucas McCain's?
And, we're the same height too!
mitch 17 months ago
Absolutely gunsmoke but not the black and white ones didn’t like the Chester character.
tootsieg 17 months ago
Very tough choice. I picked Wagon Train.
oldmoe51 17 months ago
I would have picked gunsmoke over maverick but I didn’t like the color version.I really liked the original black and white versions and when it was called Matt Dillion I think I know it had a different name when it first came on Gunsmoke the total came later
JERRY6 oldmoe51 16 months ago
I like the radio version with William Conrad
retro6 17 months ago
I chose Rifleman as my personal favorite. I like Laramie too which is not on MeTv. I never liked westerns growing up but my dad lived them so I watched them. It would have been Gunsmoke if I were thinking about his favorite or Wild Wild West. Now I watch them all the time! As his girlie girl, he would have gotten a kick out of that!
Sorella 17 months ago
Was my Dad's favorite and came to be mine, too, as I watched it with him every day on MeTV. I really came to appreciate it. Wonderful writers - most TV shows today don't have great writers. And thank you, MeTV, for not putting up stupid disclaimers like TVLand, though they don't put up did for their repulsive drag queen, unreal housewives of SomeCity, USA, etc., ads.
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