Colt .45

[Rye Miles #13621]

Colt .45 Remember this ??

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_.45_(TV_series)

Edited November 18, 2024 by Rye Miles #13621

[Pat Riot]

I don’t recall this one, but it did come out 3 years before I was born. 
Judging by the write up in Wikipedia I didn’t miss anything. 
 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

10 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

I don’t recall this one, but it did come out 3 years before I was born. 
Judging by the write up in Wikipedia I didn’t miss anything. 
 

 

It's really hokey! Some stories are not bad but the acting is ...well....not so good! I was 10 yrs old but I don't remember ever seeing it. I was too busy watching Roy Rogers, Hopalong, Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickock, Gunsmoke, Wyatt Earp etc. I'm just catching these now on Grit.

Edited November 18, 2024 by Rye Miles #13621

[Blackwater 53393]

There was also Yancy Derringer, played by Jock Mahoney. He also starred in The Range Rider.  
 

Then there was The Grey Ghost and The Rough Riders and a half dozen more that I vaguely recall.

 

Some were pretty good and some were, as Rye said, pretty hokey.

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Chris Colt as portrayed by Wade Preston.  The show didn't last long as Warner Bros and Preston had a falling out and the show was cancelled.   This show was part of the western series produced by WB: Maverick, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco Layne, and Lawman.

Edited November 18, 2024 by Tex Jones, SASS 2263

[Rye Miles #13621]

14 minutes ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

Chris Colt as portrayed by Wade Preston.  The show didn't last long as Warner Bros and Preston had a falling out and the show was cancelled.   This show was part of the western series produced by WB: Maverick, Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bronco Layne, and Lawman.

Donald May came on when Wade Preston left. He portrayed Sam Colt Jr cousin of Chris Colt 😂

[Blackwater 53393]

14 minutes ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

The show didn't last long as Warner Bros and Preston had a falling out and the show was cancelled.   

The same thing happened to several of those shows!

 

Yancy Derringer only ran one season, (although seasons back then ran thirty or more episodes) because CBS demanded a piece of the ownership of the show!

 

Those who did own the show refused and the second season, which had already been promised sponsorship by Johnson’s Wax, was cancelled!!

 

Television hasn’t learned much in sixty plus years!!  They STILL do the same thing today for one reason or another!!!

[Rube Burrows]

I haven't seen this one yet. I have been watching The Rebel while on the tredmill. I have been watching two episodes which gets me almost to the three mile mark. Been a great show 

[Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933]

It has been playing locally on MeTV.  I remember the theme song from when I was a kid.  There is a story on YouTube where the producer is talking about the show.  He has the Colts from the show and says the salaries were so low Preston had to have another job.  He was a pilot.  He asked Warners for an advance to repair his airplane and then disappeared on some flying jobs for a few weeks so they fired him.

 

That reminds me.  In the audience for the show on YouTube was Hugh O'Brien.  I remember back during one of the early SASS conventions in Vegas we were setting up a display table and noticed Hugh O'Obrien in a wheelchair trying to get into the hall and the guard would not let him in.  I went over and said "do you know who that is?"  The young fellow said "no."  I said that is Hugh O'Brien.  He said "who?"  That was almost 20 years ago.  Think how few people remember the old western stars now.  That is one of the prime reasons recruiting for SASS is so difficult.

Edited November 18, 2024 by Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933

[G W Wade]

2 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Donald May came on when Wade Preston left. He portrayed Sam Colt Jr cousin of Chris Colt 😂

Prefered this version to original. Preston only had 2 facial expressions.  Not much difference between   It runs at 4 AM if I am having trouble sleeping         GW

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

1 hour ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:

That reminds me.  In the audience for the show on YouTube was Hugh O'Brien.  I remember back during one of the early SASS conventions in Vegas we were setting up a display table and noticed Hugh O'Obrien in a wheelchair trying to get into the hall and the guard would not let him in.  I went over and said "do you know who that is?"  The young fellow said "no."  I said that is Hugh O'Brien.  He said "who?"  That was almost 20 years ago.  Think how few people remember the old western stars now.  That is one of the prime reasons recruiting for SASS is so difficult.

If you recall, Mr. O'Briens signage used to have an arrow directing you toward his booth with the caption,

Hugh O'Brien "He's still alive?".

 

The old Nick at Nite, Grit and MeTv are some of the reasons that anyone under 70 know of any of these shows or actors.

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Speaking of Hugh OBrien, I saw him in a movie last night called Seminole. He’s was an Indian with shaved head and he’s was a real angry brave!! 1953 movie 🍿 

Edited November 18, 2024 by Rye Miles #13621

[Rye Miles #13621]

How about Shotgun Slade? He carried an over under shotgun. He was a private detective!🙄

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_Slade

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Warner Brothers studio promo picture from 1959. Series leads Will Hutchins (Sugarfoot), Peter Brown (Lawman), Jack Kelly (Maverick), Ty Hardin (Bronco), James Garner (Maverick), Wayde Preston (Colt .45), and John Russell (Lawman)

[watab kid]

i remembeer seeing it with my dad and he didnt like it so we quit watching - most of the others were hits with him , at 7 i had little say