[ec1st]

Greetings, leadlike. I just signed on here and am posting from one county north of you. We did grow up with a cornucopia of TV westerns to choose from. I never got heavily into the one-hour shows except for WAGON TRAIN, CHEYENNE and BRONCO LANE. I never watched a MAVERICK show the whole way through, but the show was my first exposure to a British actor named Roger Moore. The half-hour shows better suited my short attention span, and of them I remember sampling ANNIE OAKLEY, WYATT EARP, THE CISCO KID, ROY ROGERS, WILD BILL HICKOCK, and of course, THE LONE RANGER. WILD BILL HICKOCK was a troubling show as both Guy Madison and deputy Andy Divine both wore their six-guns backwards. I tried that setup with my cap guns and thought it was an extremely inefficient way to be a quick drawin' western hero. Perhaps you remember Saturday morning's Covered Wagon Theater. Have you ever run across a TV movie called EVIL ROY SLADE? Though called a movie it plays like a collection of four episodes of a western sit-com. John Astin (The Addams Family) stars, so you can imagine what kind of silliness he can bring to such a production.