RIP -- Pernell Roberts

[vanillafluffy]

RIP
Pernell Roberts
1928 - 2010

I suspect there's quite a Bonanza cast reunion going on in the Hereafter. Yeah, I know, he exited in the middle of the series, not a great career move, but back in the day, he and Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon were one of the most memorable TV families of all time, certainly of the Golden Age of TV Westerns. (I *miss* westerns! What's happened to America that we've let our greatest genre fade away?!)
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[ladyjane]

*whimper* That's all of them, isn't it? Except for David Canary and Jamie Vogel who joined the cast much later.

We're overdue for a comback of the western. The networks have gone through cop shows, lawyers, doctors, sci-fi, and fantasy. Reality shows threw a kink in things, but as soon as the cable networks figure out there's a market, we'll get a channel just for westerns and movies/shows set on farms and ranches. John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Lonesome Dove, Little House on the Prairie, the Waltons, Lassie, and Sarah Plain and Tall, even Field of Dreams.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

as the cable networks figure out there's a market, we'll get a channel just for westerns and movies/shows

Yup, definitely a western network, probably with some macho name, like SPUR or POSSE. And let's not forget to screen Clint Eastwood (Rawhide and all his western movies), Wild Wild West, The Big Valley, Deadwood and one of my favorites, the six episode series Wildside, which was a mid-80s cross between Wild Wild West and The A-Team....