Posts from Gorch in thread „Rawhide (1959-1966)“

Well, I'm a mere child of 64 years of age and I have to agree with Stumpy.
I recall most of the glut of western shows from the '50s and Rawhide was never a favorite. I'm going to make some enemies here, but I also thought Gunsmoke stunk to high heaven. I never even thought of it as a western, but more of a soap opera. Watching the reruns has only enforced that opinion.
Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Rebel, Maverick, Yancey Derringer, The Dakotas and a much later series called The Outcasts were my favorites.
Probably forgot a few, but that's a perk at my age.

We deal in lead, friend.

Let us not forget Sheb Wooley who played Pete the scout. Sheb was in some pretty good westerns - "War Wagon", "High Noon", "Outlaw Josie Wales" and "Silverado". I think the last film he was in was "Hoosiers".
His part in "Rio Bravo" was completely edited out from the film.
For the more ancient of us, he also wrote and performed the song "Purple People Eater". When I was about nine years old, my folks gave me fifty cents while we were in a tavern. I cleaned the place out after I had played it on the juke box six times in a row.

We deal in lead, friend.