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>>>>>>>You are living in the past, dude <g>.
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>>>>>>>>Just thought I'd shake off some brain cobwebs. I'd even forgotten about Sugarfoot myself, but now I can't get the freakin' tune out of my head :-)
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>>>>>>>>Nor The Lawman, nor Branded ("that's not the way to die ...")
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>>>>>>>>Jeez I can remember Gunsmoke, Laramie, Cheyenne ...
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>>>>>>>>Was there owt but westerns came out of US TV in the 60s?
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>>>>>>>Sure, although the 50s and 60s were without doubt the high water mark of TV westerns. You left out some of the most popular -- "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Rawhide". Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide" was Clint Eastwood's first role of note.
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>>>>>>I always liked The Virginian best. No idea why.
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>>>>>Whoops, I forgot that one. I watched it as well. It was my dad's favorite.
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>>>>I could never figure out WHO WAS the Virginian. I believe it was the old geezer but the guy in the blcak hat was the star.
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>>>I thought the dark haired man dark hat and shirt was "The Virginian". Wasn't he like the ranch foreman.
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>>No, I think the grey-haired old man was. The black-ganed guy was the foreman or something (didn't he also have like fancy things in his hatband?). I really can't remember too much of teh series.
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>http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/virginian.htm
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>it was the man in black.
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>Its all coming back. Shiloh Trampas tec

Thanks for that.

Oh yes I remember Trampas now - how Doug McClure ("You may remember me from such films as ..." - Simpsons) came to fame before all those "Island the World Forgot"-type films he made. I always thought that Lee J Cobb was the V, but just didn't happen to have the adventures.