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Westerns have featured prominently in films almost since motion pictures were first produced at the end of the nineteenth century and when televisions invaded American homes in the late 1940s and early '50s, Western programs filled the small screen landscape. Throughout the 1950s and well into the 1960s, these shows dominated television with such long-running successes as Bonanza, Wagon Train, and Maverick. And though the genre has fallen on hard times over the years, it has never died, as Hollywood continues to produce films, mini-series, and shows that keep the west alive.
In Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders, Alvin H. Marill looks at the genre as it was represented from the beginning of television—from the twenty-year run of Gunsmoke to the brutal revisionist take of Deadwood. This volume encompasses all manifestations of the Western, including such series as Rawhide, The Virginian, and The Wild, Wild West, as well as movies-of the-week, mini-series, failed pilots, animated programs, documentaries, and even Western-themed episodes of non-Western series that provided their own spin on the genre.
- Sales Rank: #3501017 in Books
- Published on: 2011-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.49" h x .72" w x 6.43" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 190 pages
Review
Alvin H. Marill's Television Westerns offers an overview of small-screen offerings that covers the last six decades, focusing on production and broadcast....The series and televised films covered are not only significant in their role as American entertainment— many of these are, as Marrill points out, the cornerstones of popular culture— they are part of an ongoing web of intertexuality that includes adaptations, appropriations, visual and textual references, borrowings, and inspirations in literature, music, film, and of course, television. (Western American Literature)
Any opportunity to revisit television's classic ‘oaters’ is a good one as far as I'm concerned, and Alvin H. Marill's Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebush, Sheriffs, Scalawag, and Sidewinders is essentially a survey tracing small-screen horse operas from the medium's earliest days (film transfers like Hopalong Cassidy, radio migrants like The Lone Ranger and Gunsmoke ) through the boom years of the late fifties/early sixties (covered in a chapter titled From Wagon Train and Bonanza to The Virginian and The Big Valley) and right up to the present (including David Milch's profane Deadwood and Elmore Leonard's sublime Justified). (The Paley Center for Media)
The author of this title, a long published author of several titles in the movie, television, and music arenas, has written a book that looks at the history of the western genre from the beginning of broadcast television in the 1940s to present day. Westerns had their peak time in the 1950s and 1960s with the long-running programming of such hits as Bonanza, Wagon Train, and Maverick, with Gunsmoke and its 20-year run eclipsing them all. The volume includes production, cast, and character information on all television westerns, including hit series, movies of the week, mini series, failed pilots, animated programs, documentaries, and western-themed episodes on non-western television shows. This work touches on nearly all of the major western programming since the beginning of television and provides a nice overview of the genre as a whole. (American Reference Books Annual)
About the Author
Alvin H. Marill (1934-2010) was the author of many books about performing arts, including The Complete Films of Edward G. Robinson. His books for Scarecrow include Keeping Score: Film and Television Music, 1988-1997 (1998), More Theatre: Stage to Screen to Television (2002), Movies Made for Television, 1964-2004 (2005), More Theatre III: Stage to Screen to Television: Since 2001 (2007), and Movies Made for Television, 2005-2009 (2010).
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Comprehensive if Overpriced Survey of TV Westerns!
By Mike O'Connor
In their time, no televison programs were more beloved and more pervasive than westerns. In 1959, there were 32 weekly westerns running on prime-time! Regardless of the year, westerns were a TV staple until recent times. Alvin Marill provides an overview of SIX DECADES OF SAGEBRUSH, SHERIFFS, SCALAWAGS AND SIDEWINDERS in this 2011 Scarecrow Press release.
Babyboomers should enjoy Marill's wide-ranging survey. Marill takes the readers from the early days of 'Hoppy' and THE LONE RANGER through the Roy & Gene days and on into the DAVY CROCKETT craze. Then, in 1955, TV oaters came of age with THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP, WAGON TRAIN, GUNSMOKE, MAVERICK and HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL - my personal all-time favorite! - and westerns of varying quality took over the orthicon tube. In the following years, BONANZA, THE VIRGINIAN and THE BIG VALLEY, among others, debuted but, by the 1970s, American viewers had grown saddle sore of western fare. While KUNG FU and DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN were successes, other oaters quickly bit the dust. More successful were western made-for-TV movies and western miniseries like CENTENNIAL and LONESOME DOVE in the 1970s and '80s.
With such a broad palette, Marill does a good job of summarizing the many Western series, movies, documentaries and Saturday morning cartoons that have graced our TV sets over the years. TELEVISION WESTERNS certainly can't claim to be exhaustive but it is a pleasant, affectionate guided tour through some fondly remembered shows.
Having said that, I think the $49.95 price tag is ridiculous for a 178-page book with NO photographs.
In any case, if you want to touch base with Hoppy, Davy, Matt, Paladin and all the others, TELEVISION WESTERNS is just what Doc Adams ordered. Recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Nice Book, Not Comprehensive, No Photos
By donbodadonbo
This is a nice book, & well-written, but there is NOT A SINGLE PHOTO in it (except for James Garner as "Maverick" on the front cover)! As such, it is far overpriced for only 177 pages of text (the amazon webpage states "190 pages" as of my review) & no photos.
Mr. Marill includes an uncommon discussion of the early TV puppet shows with Western themes in the 1949-50 period.
He mentions that "Hopalong Cassidy", the first TV Western, started in syndication in "late 1948", but it would have been more informative to give us the exact date of this momentous event. He does mention the date this show first appeared on NBC, but that is information easily found elsewhere. Throughout the early pages, there are references to "at least on the West Coast" (p. 3) & "at least in the Chicago area" (p. 4), in terms of TV programming. It would have been more useful to readers, if TV Guide schedules for the East Coast & South were checked as well, to give us a national picture. Later, it didn't matter as much, but for the first ever TV Western, it would be good to have more details documenting how the whole TV Western genre got onto its feet.
Not much space is spent on most of the Western series. My own research has found 124 TV Western series, & I've read that there were even more than that. Marill doesn't discuss anywhere near that number of Westerns, & tends to stick to the longer running, more popular ones. Even "Tales of Wells Fargo" (which is the TV Western with the 10th highest number of episodes), gets only sporadic mention on four non-consecutive pages. Thus, the title of the book, "Television Westerns: Six Decades of..." is perhaps a bit grandiose for such a short book which lacks many of the details I was hoping for.
On p. 163, Marill declares the TV Western to be at "trail's end" after "Deadwood" ended, but "Deadwood" ended first runs in August 2006, & this book was published in 2011. In the past, there have been gaps in TV Westerns that lasted longer than 5 years, yet the TV Western was revived later still. Why should the gap the author mentions, be "trail's end"? I prefer to be more optimistic & consider this gap to be only a long pause, not the end of the trail.
If you're looking for an all-encompassing, encyclopedic work on TV Westerns, look elsewhere; this book does not fill that bill (& neither does any other that I'm aware of). But if you want to re-live the Good Old Days of 1950s-1960s TV Westerns (& later), read some good insight & analysis, this is a nice read, even though the price is way too high for what you get.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Chaotic
By Born reader
There was no flow. It jumped all over the place. It was a jumbled mess. There could have been enjoyable information but ki was so scattered, I was very disappointed.
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