In the early 1960s, television was exploding with popular Western programs. Gunsmoke and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp had been on for years, and Bonanza had just been launched in 1959, prompting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some shows came and went in a single season, while others became cultural touchstones, running for years. But which ones truly ...

The Big Valley, starring Barbara Stanwyck, first premiered on Sept. 13, 1965. By 1965, the popularity of Westerns had largely shifted from the big screen to our living rooms, thanks to rating ...

The 1960s was a decade of transition for American television, bridging the black-and-white era of the 1950s with the colorful, more socially aware programming that would emerge in the 1970s. Viewers ...