WHEN THE WEST WAS FUN - A TV WESTERN REUNION 

It's 2019 and at 67 years old I have tears running down my cheeks while smiling !!

Can you imagine all these people in the same place at the same time? This is truly something special.

I remember my father was so happy when he was able to get the Encore Western channel. He said "Son,I can see the western t.v. shows and movies I missed when I was working." Watching this is making me tear up cause I lost my dad recently.

I especially loved Eric Fleming aka Gill Favor-Rawhide. He was the star and now Clint Eastwood gets all the glory as the star of this series and it burns me up. Eric was!!!! Also...everybody needs to read the life story of Eric Fleming and it will make you cry from a little boy until his accidental death filming his last movie he was in and he was going to get married when finished with this film also. He had the saddest and most painful and tragi life. His face was also all reconstructive surg

It is now Jan of 2018, I grew up watching all these shows. Never saw this 1975 reunion show until now, really unbelievable. As time rolls on, I wonder how many others will stumble across this & be drawn back to their childhood. Yes, I am 67 now, & oh how I miss those days of long ago, so long pardner.

Loved that they dedicated the end to the Duke. I am still a great fan of his movies.

There will NEVER AGAIN be the great t.v. shows such as there were with all of these, and I'm so glad that I was one to grow up with them.

I grew up watching all these westerns. Born in 1947...I miss them so so so much!!!! Nothing today on t.v. is as great as our beloved westerns were....and talk about violence. Today is horrible. Our beloved westerns were the real days of ago. Our western actors the best actors and most beloved and will never be forgotten ever. God bless each and every one of you for all the hours of enjoyment you gave us. God bless westerns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm 74 and watched all of these shows and seeing this for 1st time, took me back to my preteenage years, I will never forget my HERO's

I am so lucky I grew up in the Era of Cowboy Shows, God & Country, Morals, Intergrity and Family Values...

The Good ole days! Most are gone now but thank God for reruns. Still watching everyday. Great Memories!

I'm 63 and watched most of these as a kid. This really got me deep inside. There will never be actors like these again.

Watching these old westerns is my comfort T V. Takes me back to my earlier days.

What an invaluable piece of TV western history! So many of these wonderful actors are now gone but will always be remembered. Great to see Neville Brand & Peter Brown who co-starred on my favorite western Laredo.

This video is wonderful. These westerns are the best. They don't even make westerns anymore.What they call actors now are nothing compared to these men. This is real entertainment.

Happy Trails to all the old western shows and actors. Wherever you are now.

The old timers of the classic T V Westerns just don,t want to fade away! ,,,,,,,and why should they ?. No bad language ! no sex ! just good old family entertainment.

Love to see all those guys together

Amazing how they got all the stars of westerns together beautifully done enjoyed seeing them again brought back so many memories thank you🌹❤️

Wow....great priceless collection. I have a great collection of Clint Walker.....movies, photos, and you name it. I loved Cheyenne and he was my first love though Clint same age as my parents and I am the same age as his one and only daughter....66 yrs. now. I love all the westerns....always hunting them so can enjoy. You Tube has really some wonderful videos for us....what a blessing they are to us western and cowboy lovers. Very addictive watching the You Tube westerns as they are so great.

I believe it was much longer than this and was in the latter 70's. We then started losing so many of our great cowboys. Unfortunately there were just toooo many great ones to include them all...for sure. Wish there was something we could do to get them to replay our old westerns back more. A few channels have them on weird hours here in Ca. on Sat. mornings and some old western movies in the afternoon. There are so many of us whom would be thrilled to see westerns make a comeback!!!!!!!!!!

wow, im 62 years old, most of my heros are gone. i sure do miss them. thank God they still live in Re runs.

This is one awesome tv show!!! Many actors gathered for this special!!

Obviously this was made before Duke died in 1979 because of the dedication of the song to Duke wasn't in the past tense. Thanks to the person who posted this video. My precious darling brother David would have LOVED it!!!!

This is 2014, We could use a lot more westerns today... But you know the kids and adults are far to sophisitated for all of this simple talk, and simple living. You can see just how far we gotten

I am just 46 years old but I have watched westerns with my dad for years. His favorites were Lawman and Tales of Wells Fargo but he also really liked Cheyenne, Wagon Train and Gunsmoke as well as many others that I wont name. Dad passed away in January of this year and the one thing I really am going to miss is sitting in his living room after work and watching the Encore Western channel with him. I actually just subscribed to the channel in my home because over time his favorites also became mine. They don't make shows like this anymore which is sad because these shows were better than almost anything you find on television these days.

I thought I'd never see this again; remember when this came on in 1978! Love it!!!

Love Western shows and movies

This show brought me to tears, what great memories from my childhood and on up. Unfortunately kids now don't have wholesome shows now like there was when these stars were popular icons and good role models. (2019). THANKS

Really enjoyed watching this, Thanks for sharing!

I wish all could have been there in person at the same time.

I grew up in the 50's never remembered this many Western TV shows sorry their all gone great actors!

I remember watching this almost 50 years ago. I always thought it was an hour long show. Having said that, it is wonderful to see any part of it all these years later. Many heartfelt thanks for putting this out there.

Oh, my goodness, were we ever that young. They were fun to watch, From the '50s to the late '60s for me.

What a lovely tribute!! Thanks so much for sharing I remember them all fondly!!

Roy & Dale, Were always my Favorite Growing up, Use to go to the Rodeo's To see them when ever it hit Town etc. May they RIP & are Sadly missed, By all of their Fans.

Thank you for bringing this show to you tube. I watched most of those westerns when I was a kid and love watching them all again. What great tv shows they were too. Need to bring westerns back. They are my favorites to watch over again. God bless.

My G-d, what marvelous memories. G-d rest all their souls, and thanks guys for all the fun!

As a baby boomer, these are the shows that I grew up watching, and ironically, the quality of the shows is superior to most of the series that are currently in production. It's bittersweet to see so many of the Western stars that are no longer with us, including Glenn Ford, Chuck Connors, Clayton Moore, Jack Kelly, John Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ken Curtis and Milburn Stone, Jock Mahoney, George Montgomery, Richard Boone, Gene Barry, and so many others. I still get a great kick from watching Have Gun Will Travel, Bat Masterson and Maverick on the Westerns Channel, where they are shown on a daily basis.

i'm just starting to watch the westerns of the past on Metv station and i'm loving what i've seen so far! i mean The Rifleman is amazing!! of course, Gunsmoke n Bonaza and Wanted Dead or Alive' is great! so many legends here from a time long gone by. i wish we were back there as far as content in shows where todays show r filled with so much that influences so many young folks n not in a good way. its sad really. thank you for sharing this:)

Everyone of these stars were the best. None today compare to them.

Yep...I have tears on my face seeing all these legends that are gone now. Creation has blessed us with their achievements & talent for making our time here so much better. I'll always love them all!! Sept.30,2019

What GREAT!!!!! upload! Thanks so much. So MANY MANY great favourite stars. - EXCELLENT!!!! - Tribute to all the old great western TV shows.

Gosh... wish I had seen this when it premiered on TV, well probably was too busy at the time, and didn't know it was on. It was wonderful to grow up with these shows. The bit between festus and doc, was great. Gunsmoke was the best. So many featured here are now gone, so it's wonderful to them all here.

Good to see our heroes again. And though I liked the ending with Roy and Dale singing Happy Trails [Dales Evans wrote the song for the show] and all our heroes joining in.Thanks for sharing.

I met Peter Brown in Moab at their annual festival in 2010 and he looked like a 30 year old who was in shape.The truth!

thank you for posting you Brought back my childhood. "The Best of the Best !".

Just found this. Awesome video..Great to see all those cowboys I watched in the 50s and 60s. Miss all of them

WOW What a great get together.. It made me realize how much TV needs some good westerns again,. Thank you for this delightful gathering. I'll be back. It is wonderful to see all these great old friends. Ty is one of my very favorites. How absolutely ingenious to get this group together.

Clayton Moore was 65 when this was filmed and he looked exactly like he did during the 50's...amazing!

Laramie was a favorite of mine! Loved Jess Harper.

My heroes as a child, great entertainment, with lessons on how to be a good person. I watch a lot and f the shows still today. They helped the boys I grew up with become the good men they are today. Wish there was more of this show though.

Laramie with John Smith and Robert Fuller was another great one.

Absolutely the best reunion of them all.Now these were the real western stars.

I have never seen this show before. What great actors all together and great memories. I watch encore western channel all the time. They truly don't make them like this anymore. If they would only make shows like this now. No cursing or sex. I think people are ready for shows like these old westerns to come back.

As was born in late '58, the peak of popularity of the TV western, that leads me to think it was about 20 years too late. It would have been great to be working on technical developments and then come home to westerns every night.

Makes me sad to think most if not all are gone... I grew up watching lots of them .. I do my best now .. sure shaped who I am today

Is this crazy, or what?!?!?? An ALL-STAR LINEUP!! So many greats. It's so great they included HEROES AND VILLAINS. This is great, THANK YOU!! 😀😀🤸💜💜💜

Festus Hagen fron Gunsmoke along with wishbone from Rawhide were my favorites.

I just turned 63, and remember all these shows. They were family time entertainment in those days. And that young fella in Rawhide was a 19 year old Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates.

Just watched it again, still brings back memories...good ones. Thank you for sharing. :)

I forgot my Mom told me I met Rex Allen when I was 3 years old at the Strand Theater in Clinton, Iowa.

wow what legends !

My favorite was The Virginian. Many actors played title role in films but James Drury owned it!Also I liked Forrest Tucker - he reminded me of my dad.

I totally don't believe this thing has shown up on YouTUBE. I remembered seeing this special to this day. That song especially drilled itself into my mind for whatever reason. Thanks for putting this up!

Just like yesterday a day at the Long Branch

Bronco, Bronco, tearin' across the Texas plains. Bronco, Bronco, Bronco Layne. My earliest Western memories as a child. Greetings from Germany.

Awesome! Never knew this existed. What an incredible cast! Thanks....

I love seeing. All those star in the same place good stuff thank!!

How did you secure this footage? You should take it to a professional and have them digitize this and clean it up. Priceless material!

I was hoping the Lone Ranger and a couple others where going to get a bit more screen time then they did. Sad it broke up when the rifleman made his entrance. So many greats that have left us now, so sad

most awesome wonderful thing,i have ever seen,as i have always been a true western fan,YE HAW

I remember watching this when i was a teenager, 14 i think, thought this was the greatest thing ever, My Grandfather and i watched Westerns all week long what a great time ti be a teenager. Watching this again brought a tear to my eyes when he said "This is for you duke".

Nice to see all these old characters from my childhood. Most if not all have now passed into history. 😢

Thanks so much for posting!

Wish everyone on here was still around! We’ve lost all the great ones & the best TV ever was as well! I checked on the date of this show & it was aired in 1979...the year John Wayne died! I wish so much that the TV Westerns Channel would bring a lot more of these older show back for us oldsters to watch again & so the younger ones can experience really great TV! I’ve e-mailed the Western Channel about bring them back but they tell me it’s the companies that own the rights that won’t release them or else they want to much money! What a shame! What a sad sad shame!

Such an enjoyable experience. Thank you.

Wow! This was great!!

This was great , but it will never happen again.I really enjoyed it.

I did not know all that about Eric Fleming but I do remember that handsome face he had and his great acting. I did recall years ago reading that he died on that last movie...Vic Morrow of Combat TV series fame (and some good movies) died on the set when a helicopter crash or something went awry in the shooting of the movie. We lost some good actors at too young an age. Rocky Lane was my (one of my) real more adult actors but he was very much as the special ones that we speak of in those years.

I just came across this video. Thank you very much for bringing back some great memories! :)

Thanks... This is great....

Tarnation ...that thar needs to be all gussied up and remastered, Mathew.

Love this never get tired of it all but one or two of these stars are gone now except Henry Darrow and Johnny Crawford

This was great brings back great memories enjoyed watching it!!

These are my childhood Heroes.. It took me more than 30 years to meet all of them... Thanks for the memories..

I have never seen this before,having just turned 65 myself I remember those shows like yesterday,they Are the most precious memories,so here to the sunny slopes of long ago

That was great! I remember ALL those westerns from wayyyyyyyyy back in the day! Thanks for sharing it!

Some of these people are still kicking, but damn few...What a kick seeing them all together...

I taped this when it came on TV.Still have it

What GREAT!!!!! upload! Thanks so much.

Vi este video muchisimas veces y siempre me produce el mismo sentimiento, Lloro por el recuerdo de mi iinfancia y adolescencia solitaria, encerrada en mi casa solo acompañada por estos personajes.

This was what made America great! People were civilized and respect and honor were not just words, we had a code of moral decency.

I loved this video. It brought back so many memories. I watch every old western series that I can find on tv. I had such a crash on John Russell!!

Freaking A.This is great. I grew up watching all these shows. Thankyou.

I can't believe they assembled all these great stars together and only had a 30 min. Show,,,,, but it was good to see all of em. They use to produce shows like this from time to time...... Not so much anymore. Thanks for the post. From a big western fan who grew up on these wild west heros...... MyDaMnWoRd 😎🔫

Took me till I am 50, to Dig Westerns. Now, Any Western, Any Time o day.

What memories this brings back. Well done.

What a Great show. I bet it was alot of fun and good times doing that show! It was great seeing them recognize the animals.

Great show, many THANX.