The 1960s was a decade of transition for American television, bridging the black-and-white era of the 1950s with the colorful ...

Popularity: Premiering on NBC in 1959, Bonanza quickly became a cornerstone of Sunday night television, aided by being one of the first TV westerns filmed in color. It dominated much of the 1960s ...

The 1950s and 1960s were the halcyon days of TV Westerns. Notable names included Glenn Ford, Rod Cameron, Harry Carey, Walter Burke, and the figurative Robert Mitchum, whose dulcet tones narrated ...

Olive Sturgess, a TV Western regular and actress best known for the satirical horror film The Raven, has died. She was 91 years old. The actress passed away in Los Angeles, Calif., on Wednesday ...

One of the most notable television Westerns of the 1960s was the James Drury-led series, The Virginian. Behind other Western giants, Gunsmoke and Bonanza, The Virginian was the third longest ...

Olive Sturgess, a TV Western regular and actress best known for the satirical horror film The Raven, has died. She was 91 years old.

Some of the longest-running television shows of all time are old-school Westerns—and there were reportedly over 100 Westerns running on network TV in the 1960s.