A western television show is a cowboy story which takes place in the 'old west' and involves cowboys, cattle ranchers, miners, farmers, Indians, guns and horses. It was the most popular genre of TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, when a couple hundred of them were aired.
- Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
- Alias Smith and Jones
- The Big Valley
- Bonanza
- Branded
- Four Feather Falls (puppet show)
- Gunsmoke
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Heck Ramsey
- Here Come the Brides
- The High Chapparal
- The Lone Ranger
- Maverick
- Rawhide
- The Rifleman
- The Roy Rogers Show
- The Virginian
- Wagon Train TV Show
- Wanted, Dead or Alive
- The Wild Wild West
- Zorro
Kung Fu might also be included since it takes place in the same era.
McCloud was a fusion of the western with the modern big-city crime drama.
has similar themes but is set in Australia, so it might be called a "southern".
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