Browsing: Western

After dominating cinemas and television for much of the ’50s and ’60s, the Western genre began to gradually decline throughout the 1970s. Shows that had been on the air for over a dozen seasons ended their runs during the decade, with few to replace them. But television Westerns hadn’t entirely gone the way of the…

This is some pretty rare video from 1964, of a Game 7 between the (then) St. Louis Hawks and the (then) San Francisco Warriors.

The Western supposedly died some time in the 1970s. In reality, the genre merely faded. Westerns will never truly die, as evidenced by the genre’s current renaissance spurred by the Taylor Sheridan-verse. Interestingly enough, Sheridan himself has his own view of why the Western will never die, essentially viewing the post-Civil War era in American…