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Were these Westerns filmed in black-and-white or color… or both?
Can you remember watching these cowboys in full color?
Cowboys can be gritty or colorful characters no matter what kind of film they're shot on. Television has given us iconic heroes of the Wild West since the earliest days of the medium. No matter the era, cowboys are always cool.
The genre was wildly popular in the 1950s, and continued to dominate network schedules up through the mid-'70s. Which means they were filmed in both stylish black & white and glorious color.
But do you remember which shows filmed in which formats? It gets a little tricky when you remember that some classic shows filmed in both black & white AND color throughout their runs, depending on the season. See if you can wrangle the right answer. Need help, partner? Watch a posse of classic Westerns weekdays and Saturdays on MeTV!
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Bonanza (1959–73)?
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Gunsmoke (1955–75)?
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The Rifleman (1958–63)?
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Little House on the Prairie (1974–83)?
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Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–61)?
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Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–64)?
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Wagon Train (1957–65)?
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The Wild Wild West (1965–69)?
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Lancer (1968–70)?
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Maverick (1957–62)?
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Rawhide (1959–65)?
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The Big Valley (1965–69)?
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The High Chaparral (1967–71)?
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The Virginian (1962–71)?
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The Lone Ranger (1949–57)?
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Cheyenne (1955–63)?
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Daniel Boone (1964–70)?
Were these Westerns filmed in black-and-white or color… or both?
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Didn't do so well. I think my mom could do better.
16/17, missed the one about the Lone Ranger!
15/17.
2/14 the ones I got wrong were Daniel Boone and The Lone Ranger. Because I really never saw the Lone Ranger and color when I was growing up and the same with Daniel Boone I only saw it in color.
14/17 Oh well.
15 out 17
12/17.....we had only a B&W tv growing up
14/17
You got 17 out of 17
Nifty skills there! You are a true trivia sharpshooter!
Nifty skills there! You are a true trivia sharpshooter!
I wouldn’t mind if you got Virginian
12/17
16/17 Missed the last one.
15/17 I would like to know why The Virginian was shot entirely in color as at the time there were few color sets. Was it some sort of forethought on their part?
Maybe it was forethought. The first color t.v.'s available for sale were in 1953. The very first t.v. show filmed in color, was the "Cisco Kid", 1949. Four years before color sets.
15/17
13/17. Not bad considering we didn't get a color tv until 1973.
Same here, but we didnt have color tv until the late 70's. I think 1978 or '79