Few TV genres have been more influential than the Western, which includes several of the most iconic shows in television history.

From the black-and-white morality tales of 1950s classic TV to today’s gritty, prestige dramas like those in the Yellowstone universe that have come to redefine the genre, Westerns have remained ...

Marshal Matt Dillon is one of the most powerful Western characters. Played by James Arness, Dillon was the moral and legal ...

Most of the big names in this television genre come from the golden age of TV Westerns, between the mid-1950s and late 1960s. Still, there are multiple modern-day greats of the neo-Western ...

Frank Price, who has died aged 95, was a soft-spoken movie and TV executive whose career – including two separate spells as head of Columbia Pictures – benefitted from years of ground-level experience ...

In 1959, the top four most popular television shows in the United States were westerns. From humble beginnings the small-screen horse opera became a TV staple and cultural phenomenon in the 1950s ...

Broken Arrow (1950) was ahead of its time in portraying Native American issues positively in the Western genre. The TV adaptation carried on the film's ideals of tolerance and equality between ...