40 Clasic TV Western Series Intros. Take trip down memory lane! 

Me too!

some were for kids...and some weren't...

60's kid here too. I think some of these were before my time but remember Bonanza, The Wild Wild West and Gunsmoke for sure. Good stuff.

I loved those shows too. I would add to the list Laredo, Alias Smith & Jones, The Virginian, High Chaparral and many others. The Guns of Will Sonnett was excellent too (starring Walter Brennan).

60’s kid here, too! I was raised by my grandparents, and they loved Westerns! I have fond memories of watching most of these shows with them. I have recently rediscovered many of them on cable, and besides bringing me back to my childhood, I love watching them as an adult with a better understanding of the real history behind the events portrayed in the shows!

You said it!

@@JohnSmith-ct5jd lot of Saturday fare here...

Wow. Amazing how these Westerns ruled the roost from mid-50's to early '70's. Missing two that I watched. The Virginian and I can't recollect the title. Started in '68 with the verbiage: 'The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle', with Joan Blondel. Little help with the title would be appreciated.

Hete Come the Brides. One of my favorites.

Many memories came back when I finished watching this video thank you

Me too

Ditto!

Yes, and My Friend Flicka, The Deputy, The Sheriff, Wagons West, Tombstone Territory, dozens of others!

how could leave Maverick off this list?....or the Cisco Kid for that matter?....both staples of this genre...

You're 10 years my senior. If you like Robert Fuller on wagon train then you probably would like him on the show Emergency! Have you watched the show Emergency!? Love from Marysville California

I'm 71 as well. I liked Daniel Boone and Kung Fu. Wagon Train, ...Hopalong Cassidy was before our time. Zorro and F troop ok.

Robert Horton was on Wagon Train. Robert Fuller starred on Laramie

I loved Robert Fuller in “Emergency!” in the 70’s! ❤❤He was my crush back then! I’m 12 years younger than you, and I never knew until a few years ago that he had started out in Westerns!❤❤❤

I loved the opening along with Rawhide's

Yeah! Could’ve left out Daniel Boone and replaced it with The Virginian, which was a REAL Western. Daniel Boone took place in Kentucky. NOT a Western.

A "Western" depends on the year of the country's development. In the 1820s, Kentucky WAS the West. To New Yorkers, today, the Hudson River is the West! And, not to put to fine a point on your remark, I really liked "The Virginian" theme, too.

Yep. Percy Faith did himself proud with that theme. Pity he didn't do more themes.

I'm from the UK too born at the end of the 1950s and my dad also always had the Westerns on. I remember his favourite was Wagon Train with Ward Bond. But I loved Bonanza as I had a childhood crush on Michael Landon who played Little Joe. I also loved The Big Valley as I've always loved and admired Barbara Stanwyck. I remember the theme tunes to Bonanza and Wagon Train often coming from the television in our house as a child. I wish they still made them like that. Far better than the rubbish they put on today. I'm fed up watching Celebrity and Reality TV shows.

I'm in total agreement

These classic shows were far more expensive to produce than “reality” garbage; the latter draws similar audience numbers. Hence the decline of shows like these.

@@pickfairguy Alternative sources of entertainment viewing also factors into the equation, online streaming services have captured a large portion of the audience who once would have been regular free-to-air TV viewers and before that satellite/cable TV consumers. Quality programming costs more to make I would agree, how many reality shows remain in syndication world wide though?

These TV shows are more reality" than "reality TV" shows.

Yep! Me too! Absolute rubbish so called reality lol!! Yeah right!!

With mine, it’s Gunsmoke and the rifleman, they just play them both on a loop and when they get thru the series, they just start them all over again! 😂

I agree on end song of Rifleman. Superb tune.

more of an adult western...but it came on at 9:30....so the kids watched it too

The two greatest Westerns' theme songs were "The Virginian" and Jerrold Immel's "Gunsmoke". The latter show, had several theme songs as the show progressed through several seasons. And . . . you can't say "The Wild, Wild West" musical intro was lame. That was another great!

81 yrs old and I agree these were the best or shows. Both my grand parents remembered (lived) in those days for real.

So the Skipper was also an engineer on Casey Jones?? Wow, never knew that! I don't know if I'd like to ride on that train though.😅

Nobody could sing the theme song of Rawhide better than Frankie Laine. Also loved the theme to Bonanza, Wagon Train and The Big Valley too.

And High Chapparal

@@soniapedder87 Blues Brothers!

Gunsmoke

A very moving recollection of your father and grandfather. Thank you.

There were 5 of us kids. When we had been somewhere and were leaving to go somewhere else, my Daddy would say, "Head 'em up! Move 'em out!"

When I was a kid I lived for Friday nights just to watch Rawhide.

Yes let em out move em on loved that one to

Sorry about your dad. Regards Dennis Aus.

Others left off, Tales of Wells Fargo, Tales of the Texas Rangers, Fury, Stagecoach West, Tombstone Territory, Sugarfoot, Stories of the Century, just to name a few.

Great list. Sorry you didn't show Clint Walker,he was my pin up .

I loved the theme song to Sugarfoot! My favorite, though, was the song to The Rebel. I wish they were included in this video!

@@EAPforever Cheyenne was on the list.

@@sallymoritz.9087 Johnny Cash sang: The Rebel theme.

How many shells did his rifle hold? BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG (loads two more shells) BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

The values he taught to his son should have been mandatory thereout the years.

@@danbalkwill depends on the model...if it was a '92 in 44/40...then quite a few

Lucas fires 12 times but they added one to make the score work out.

@@danbalkwill I think he fired off 11 shots?

The commander of the 173 Airborne Brigade played the Rawhide theme song instead of reveille.

They'd all finished and were off our screens by the time you were born.!! 😅😅

@@neilleng9188 Maybe 61

My Dad loved them too. We waited all week just to watch Bonanza and sang the theme to Cheyenne and Bronco along with the tv. They are some wonderful memories now.

@@bettyhood2096 simpler times when good and evil were more clearly defined...often by the color of the hat

Tell him to watch some Raquel Welch westerns' he'll love that. Gorgeous. 🤩

So thank you to the damn demo.

Sadly,the frontier also disappeared.

They were Brill so entertaining...(now68)...And so glad i was born in the early 50s....

This was longer ago,the old West Frontier days were in the 1800’s and Daniel Boone was even before that.

It never did. These are romanticised takes on brutal and dangerous period, kind of like the myths of knights in armour being noble and chivalrous.

Sang by Johnny Cash.

...."And remember I speak your language"

Virgil C ,My addiction is the Lone Ranger . So much so , that I bought a Ranger , and it is White also ,with plenty of HORSE power .

Grit channel still carries a lot of these...

Yep, one of my favorites! 👍

I know right

I know right

I know right

Agreed.

Cinnamon Strip

Yes I was looking for Ward Bond in the credits for Wagon Train

61 here; many of these are new to me too!

@@davidcurrie6955, what's "girnin"?

Linda Cristel was a fox.

@@jamesthomas7405 So was Barbara Stanwyck, especially in younger years.

Yes, Wagon Train with Ward Bond and Robert Horton. Fine show. Went downhill after Ward Bond died.

I liked the BIG VALLEY.

@@vandapietrantonio3310 - yep, it was very good. Reckon I fell in love with Linda Evans every week!

Rawride, The High Chaparral, The Big Valley, Wild Wild West were my favourites. Pity The Virginian is not included & loved The Travels of Jamie McPheeters & How The West Was Won too.

I think The Travels of Jamie McPheeters only lasted maybe one season, but it was great, with the Osmonds providing the theme music. I thought Kurt Russell , who happens to be my age, was the cutest thing I had ever seen!! I’m still crazy about him!

They could've used a kazoo.

@@robertsprouse9282 nah, wouldn't have sounded good.

@@trevorayson7593, darn, I couldn't have landed a pro musician's job then.

@@robertsprouse9282 🤣

@@trevorayson7593, I was third chair kazoo in the high school band.

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Richard Boone PALADIN?

Some of these shows were in the 50s weren't they' how old are we my dear' 🤫Seen gunsmoke on reruns" that's a good one' keep watching 'girl. 🤩

@@diogenes5381 seen him in movies' cool actor.

50's- 60's My time. We had a television set. Excellent babysitter in those days

It kept me pacified

My grandfather never missed those two shows and several other westerns, unless there was a Tigers baseball game on the radio.

I had a Gunsmoke one in the 4th grade that I “inherited “ from a family friend when my grandmother couldn’t afford to buy me one. I got teased a lot by my friends for having a “boy’s lunch box “, but I didn’t care because I loved ❤Gunsmoke!!

I'm from the UK but we did have Branded on our TV schedules. It hasn't been shown for years. If I remember correctly was it Chuck Connors who played the soldier dishonourably discharged from the US Army? I seem to remember the intro showed his CO pulling off all his decorations that he had won and then breaking his sword in half. My dad used to watch it every week.

Yes!so true🙂

Brilliant Analogy

Ships of oak, men of iron... the royal navy.

As an 80s kid, the only way to find British tv shows was through expensive satellite TV or PBS. It was a damn shame too since Dr. Who was pretty much my favorite show when I was a kid. US Westerns also populated the Philippines as well in the 50s according to my grandfather. He was so immersed in American culture (he grew up as a singer for an Elvis cover band in the Philippines) that he managed to become a US Citizen via joining the US Navy during Vietnam.

Don't ever think the "Avengers" was not a hit in America. Booming hit. Never missed it and was probably my most favorite show in the 60's every Friday night. Was a real empty feeling when it ended.

@@ckstaff Hi! Good to hear that. All the episodes were repeated here in the UK a while ago, a nostalgic step back to the sixties... though the reality was not quite as neat and tidy as the world of Steed and Kathy Gale/Emma Peel/Tara King.that Brian Clemence created.

don't remember British tv being that interesting....dart games, snooker, and bird watching

@@ckstaff another one I liked was Yancey Derringer...still remember that Indian sidekick carrying that shotgun under his blanket

Johnny Yuma was a rebel, he roamed throughout the west............................

I loved the Virginian - great music and show

@@endalayng1233 I liked all the westerns just some more than others. Good choice.

How about Shenandoah or The Virginian... or did I miss those?

You should listen to the theme for The Magnificent Seven & How The West Was Won.

@@chickey333 👍 recalled another, Laredo!

@@Russia-bullies two of the best! Big Country my favourite followed by Breakheart Pass

THE CISCO KID, YANCY DERRINGER AND WILD BILL HICKOK, to name a few more.

how about "Annie Oakley"?

I’d take the Virginian (90 min) over Kung Fu always.

I thought that and was surprised not to see it among the 40. They also missed out Alias Smith and Jones. But I guess some TV Western themes might not be possible to find so easily.

@@soniapedder87 They missed many - The Deputy, Kit Carson, My Friend Flicka, Sugarfoot, Tombstone Territory, Stagecoach West (starring Wayne Rogers, remember?), Wells Fargo, Pony Express, The Adventures of Jim Bowie (I remember its theme song), Wild Bill Hickock, The Rebel (Nick Adams, remember? I can sing that theme song!), Branded (Connors' follow-up series), Broken Arrow, Davy Crockett (How did they miss that?), Johnny Ringo - they should do another one!

​@@Richard19551 Mist Rin Tin Tin too

@@harrypolychronopoulos478 No, that was there - watch again.

Thanks to one who proves that he thinks like me by liking my comment 😊🙏.

I agree with you.

@Alex C You appear to be easily frightened. You could learn a little something from these Old School shows . . .

@@QED_ for s real view of the old west see the new version of true grit or better read the book

@Alex C and times have changed

I can't believe it. I was just going to write a comment about those shows. I especially can't believe they left out The Virginian. That ran for a long time.

Not forgetting Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson and Boots and Saddles

Wild Bill Hickock Kit Carson

"O Henry's robin hood of the old west"