Rifleman TV series Nostalgia

[spclark]

Or anything with Tom Selleck as a lawman.

 

[Riesel]

OK for you TV watchers..............."Last Man Standing" has returned and the opening episode is a masterpiece. "Murphy Brown" on the other hand, is still left wing liberal trash.

 

[Pawnee Bill]

I think Jim Pag got it right. There was a big article in the American Rifleman a few years back. I think they said it had a screw added to the lever, and when it was extended it tripped the trigger with each pull of the lever.

That is correct. If you watch close sometimes you can see Chuck turn the screw before he starts rapid fire. Back in the day you could usually find one somebody had modified at the Tulsa Gun Show.

 

[theMadAlaskan]

The Rifleman #154, "The Anvil Chorus" is a good pro-armed citizens episode.

 

[muleystalker]

Now put The Rifleman and Sea Hunt together and it really gets interesting!

You have add Wanted Dead or Alive to that list, with Steve McQueen

 

[muleystalker]

"The Rifleman", and many others were great, but my favorite -- and I mean All Time Favorite -- is "Gunsmoke".

For over-all quality of the stories, the message, and the reality of the sets, it can't be beat. The character of Matt Dillon is incredible, but he is surrounded by a half dozen others who often carry the show.

And unlike most of the other westerns happiness doesn't always win the day; more like real life.

I'm about to watch an episode right now. jd

My mom always tells me the story of when she went into labor with me and told my dad its time to go to the hospital he made her wait until Gunsmoke was over, "just another 15 minutes honey!" lol

 

[Lefty Trigger]

I like the Rifleman episode where him and Mark are riding on a train and he is sitting there with his rifle. I thought about trying that on the local bus line with my Henry, think it will happen...times have changed.

 

[hogpatrol]

I like the Rifleman episode where him and Mark are riding on a train and he is sitting there with his rifle. I thought about trying that on the local bus line with my Henry, think it will happen...times have changed.

When I was a kid back in the '50s, you could see hunters on the trolleys in Philly heading out to hunt near the airport and the swamps on the southern border of the city. They were wearing their hunting clothes, boots and uncased shotguns. Odd, there was never any crime on those trolleys. Today, it'd be swat teams and film at eleven.

 

[Knotwild]

Festus - my hero, right up there with Walter Brennan and Jimmy Stewart, and Joel MCrea.

 

[Bangs OH]

How many remember Chester (Dennis Weaver) as Matt dillon’s deputy on Gunsmoke? (showing my age here).
Re.: The Rifleman. The series was derived from a Zane Grey Theater episode, “The Sharpshooter” that was written by now-famous director Sam Peckinpah; he actually directed several early episodes. This show and many other of my favorite TV Westerns of that era - like Rawhide, Branded, Broken Arrow, etc. - almost always featured/starred top-notch actors and acting.
And then there was “The Rifle Guy”. Anyone who grew up in Northern Ohio in the ‘70s probably remember local Cleveland late-night Fri. movie hosts Big Chuck and Hoolihan’s spoof if the Rifleman. At the introduction one of them, done up like Lucas McCaine, came down the street while the theme song - and the rifle fire - played over and over. After what was probably 50 rounds, the character finally stops, shakes his head and remarks something like “shucks, I missed!” Dies make one wonder why though, if The Rifleman was so great a shot, did he have to take so many?

 

[Rick in Oregon]

I never missed an episode of The Rifleman, even the theme song stuck in my head and I'd be humming it in the shower days later. After all these years, that theme still rattles around in my head on occasion.

As for "times have changed", I clearly remember taking my single shot Cooey (Canada) .22LR to school in the early 60's with some of the other boys to shoot grouse on the way home during season. The teacher would make us stack our rifles in the "cloak room", ammo stashed in his/her desk. After class we'd be given back our ammo, and grab our rifles to go pot some grouse on the way home. Good times indeed.

No shootings ever took place, no incidents of any kind at all except for the few unlucky grouse that got potted. Question: What has happened with the kids of today? Is it harder to grow up now? What the hell has changed?

 

[Milo 2.0]

I never missed an episode of The Rifleman, even the theme song stuck in my head and I'd be humming it in the shower days later. After all these years, that theme still rattles around in my head on occasion.

As for "times have changed", I clearly remember taking my single shot Cooey (Canada) .22LR to school in the early 60's with some of the other boys to shoot grouse on the way home during season. The teacher would make us stack our rifles in the "cloak room", ammo stashed in his/her desk. After class we'd be given back our ammo, and grab our rifles to go pot some grouse on the way home. Good times indeed.

No shootings ever took place, no incidents of any kind at all except for the few unlucky grouse that got potted. Question: What has happened with the kids of today? Is it harder to grow up now? What the hell has changed?

I think it's just a way faster paced life today, coupled with the degradation of society and moral compass. The dollar is king, first and foremost, with the desire for recognition high up there too.
I honestly wonder how some people find the gumption to set foot in church and put on the façade they do.

 

[Milo 2.0]

I loved Bonanza, The Rifleman, Branded, High Chapperal, Big Valley and a few more, Gunsmoke was not one of them. Today I love reruns of Gunsmoke and ask if the show was made around James Arness, or if he was selected. The role was tailor made for him, and for the 60's some of his quirks and lines had to be risque, westerns were not known for joking around and he was king. You see him in some other movies, or made for tv movies, he seems like a terrible actor.

 

[dave@aDave]

Didn't Chuck Connors give a revolver or two to a Soviet president? Believe Brezhnev at a party given by Nixon in 1973.

 

[rr2030]

"The Rifleman", and many others were great, but my favorite -- and I mean All Time Favorite -- is "Gunsmoke"

The McCain ranch set was about 300 yards from where my house is , The Gunsmoke set was at the end of our street where a park is now.

As far as PC television goes, I sure miss Sledge Hammer

 

[JFrank]

When I was a kid back in the '50s, you could see hunters on the trolleys in Philly heading out to hunt near the airport and the swamps on the southern border of the city. They were wearing their hunting clothes, boots and uncased shotguns. Odd, there was never any crime on those trolleys. Today, it'd be swat teams and film at eleven.

A kid in the 50s come on Hog we all know it was the 40s

 

[hogpatrol]

A kid in the 50s come on Hog we all know it was the 40s

 

[XENU]

How about the granddaddy of all of the cop shows, Highway Patrol.

 

[Blackthorn]

Trackdown with Robert Culp.
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