A western television show is a television series which takes place in the Old West and involves cowboys, cattle ranchers, miners, farmers, Native Americans, swords, guns and horses. It was the most popular genre of TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, when several hundred were aired. (While, the westerm television genre, never quite not died out; and is still produced, released and popularly finding an audience in later decades).
- Action in the Afternoon
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
- The Adventures of Champion
- The Adventures of Cyclone Malone
- The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- The Adventures of Lariat Sam
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
- The Adventures of Spin and Marty
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- The Alaskans
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Annie Oakley
- Barbary Coast
- Bat Masterson
- Best of the West
- The Big Valley
- Black Saddle
- Bonanza
- Boots and Saddles
- Bordertown
- Branded
- BraveStarr (animation)
- Brave Eagle
- Bret Maverick
- Broken Arrow
- Bronco
- Buckskin
- Buffalo Bill Jr.
- The Californians
- Casey Jones
- Centennial (TV mini-series, 1978-1979, 12-episodes)
- Cheyenne
- The Chisholms
- The Cisco Kid
- Cimarron City
- Cimarron Strip
- Circus Boy
- Colt .45
- The Cowboys
- Custer
- The Dakotas
- Daniel Boone
- Davy Crockett
- Dead Man's Gun
- Dead Man's Walk (TV mini-series 1996)
- Deadwood
- Death Valley Days
- The Deputy
- Destry
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater
- Dirty Sally
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
- Dundee and the Culhane
- Dusty's Trail
- Empire
- Father Murphy
- Firefly (TV series)
- Four Feather Falls (puppet show)
- Frontier
- Frontier Circus
- Frontier Doctor
- Frontier Justice
- F Troop
- Fury
- The Gabby Hayes Show
- The Gene Autry Show
- The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
- Gunslinger
- Guns of Paradise (originally, Paradise)
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Gunsmoke
- Harts of the West
- Have Gun – Will Travel
- Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
- Hawkeye: The First Frontier (1994)
- Hec Ramsey
- Hell on Wheels
- Here Come the Brides
- The High Chaparral
- Hondo
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Hotel de Paree
- How the West Was Won
- Into the West
- The Iron Horse
- Jefferson Drum
- Judge Roy Bean
- Johnny Ringo
- Klondike
- Kung Fu
- Lancer
- Laramie
- Laredo
- Law of the Plainsman
- Lawman
- The Lazarus Man
- Legacy
- Legend
- The Legend of Jesse James
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Lone Ranger
- The Loner
- Lonesome Dove (TV miniseries)
- Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994-1995)
- Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1995-1996)
- Mackenzie's Raiders
- The Magnificent Seven
- A Man Called Shenandoah
- The Man From Blackhawk
- Man Without a Gun
- The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
- Matt and Jenny (on the wilderness trail - 1979)
- Maverick
- The Monroes
- My Friend Flicka
- Nichols
- Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
- Northwest Passage
- The Oregon Trail
- The Outcasts
- Outlaws
- Overland Trail
- Paradise (later Guns of Paradise)
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats
- Ponderosa
- Pony Express
- Queen of Swords
- The Quest
- The Range Rider
- Rango
- Rawhide
- The Rebel
- Red Ryder
- Redigo
- The Restless Gun
- The Rifleman
- Riverboat
- The Road West
- The Rough Riders
- The Rounders
- The Roy Rogers Show
- The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show
- Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
- Sara
- Shane
- Sheriff of Cochise
- Shotgun Slade
- Sky King
- Stagecoach West
- State Trooper
- Steve Donovan, Western Marshal
- Stoney Burke
- Sugarfoot
- Tales of the Texas Rangers
- Tales of Wells Fargo
- The Tall Man
- Tate
- Temple Houston
- The Texan
- Texas John Slaughter
- Tombstone Territory
- Trackdown
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- 26 Men
- Two Faces West
- Union Pacific
- The Virginian
- Wagon Train
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
- The Westerner
- Whiplash
- Whispering Smith
- Wichita Town
- The Wide Country
- The Wild Wild West
- Wildside
- Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (animation, 1992)
- Wrangler
- Yancy Derringer
- Young Maverick
- The Young Pioneers (1978, 3 episoides)
- The Young Riders
- Zorro (1957)
- Zorro and Son (1983)
- Zorro (1990)
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list and/or westerns:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935)
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“...I have ... been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isnt it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?”
—Judith Jamison (b. 1943)