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The Westerner: Season 1<\/strong><\/em> (1960)<\/p>\n Creator : \u00a0Sam Peckinpah<\/strong><\/p>\n Directors:\u00a0 Sam Peckinpah<\/strong> (Eps. 1; 3; 6; 12;13); Andr\u00e9 De Toth<\/strong> (Ep. 2; 8); Bernard L. Kowalski<\/strong> (Ep. 4); Don McDougall<\/strong> (Ep. 5); Ted Post<\/strong> (Ep. 7); Bruce Geller<\/strong> (Ep. 9); Tom Gries<\/strong> (Ep. 10); Elliot Silverstein<\/strong> (Ep. 11)<\/p>\n Writers:\u00a0 Robert Heverly<\/strong> (Ep. 1-2);\u00a0 Sam Peckinpah<\/strong> (Ep. 1-2; 4; 8); Bruce Geller<\/strong> (Ep.3; 6; 12; 13); John Dunkel<\/strong> (Ep. 4), E. Jack Neuman<\/strong> (Ep. 5); Cyril Hume<\/strong> (Ep. 7); Jack Curtis<\/strong> (Ep. 8); Milton S. Gelman<\/strong> (Ep. 9); Tom Gries<\/strong> (Ep. 10); Jack Curtis<\/strong> (Ep. 11)<\/p>\n Stars:\u00a0 Brian Keith<\/strong><\/p>\n Guest Stars:\u00a0 Warren Oates<\/strong>; R.G. Armstrong<\/strong>; John Dhener<\/strong>; Arthur Hunnicutt<\/strong>; Sam Jaffe<\/strong>; Slim Pickens<\/strong>; Robert Culp<\/strong>; Michael Ansara<\/strong><\/p>\n The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n The Westerner<\/i> is an under-rated series that ran for just one season.\u00a0 It was created, produced, written (or co-written) and often directed by Sam Peckinpah,\u00a0 Brian Keith starred as Dave Blassingame, a cowboy who drifted from town to town with his dog, Brown.<\/p>\n The Westerner<\/em> wasn’t your typical cowboy show.\u00a0 Peckinpah demanded authenticity in the look of the sets, wardrobes and stories.\u00a0 When Blassingame rode into town, he looked like he had spent miles in he saddle.\u00a0 The saloons weren’t brightly lit with beautiful showgirls waiting to dance.\u00a0 No, these were frontier towns where tough men and women fought to survive.\u00a0 Peckinpah was offered a second season if he toned down the series to make it more like the other westerns of the time.\u00a0 Peckinpah declined.<\/p>\n Here are my favorite episodes from the series…<\/p>\n Jeff<\/em> (Episode 1):\u00a0 Blassingame has been searching for his old flame, a sweet girl he called “Jeff”.\u00a0 When he finds her she is working in a frontier town tavern as a prostitute.\u00a0 Her pimp is an ex-prize fighter who doesn’t plan to give her up.<\/p>\n School Days<\/em> (Episode 2):\u00a0 Blassingame hears screams and rides to the house to find a man who has just killed a school teacher.\u00a0 Blassingame shoots the man in self-defense.\u00a0 In an effort to contact the authorities and get the man first aide, Blassingame takes him to the nearest farmhouse… which happens to be where the man lives with his two brothers!<\/p>\n Hand on the Gun<\/em> (Episode 12):\u00a0 Dave is working with other men catching wild horses to sell.\u00a0 A young man new to the frontier asks to join them.\u00a0 The kid wears his gun low like a gunfighter.\u00a0 When asked about it, he shows that he is a quick draw artist and teases the men spinning his gun, pointing it at them.\u00a0 Blassingame says he’ll take on the kid to show him the ropes if he keeps his gun holstered.\u00a0 The kid agrees even though we all know that’s a promise he won’t keep…<\/p>\n Brown<\/em> (Episode 3); The Courting of Libby<\/em> (Episode 6); The Painting<\/em> (Episode 13):\u00a0 \u00a0Reoccurring character Burgundy Smith (John Dhener) shows up in three episodes.\u00a0 Smith is a con man, card cheat who is always looking for a quick buck.\u00a0 At times he’s Blessingame’s partner although just as often his nemesis.\u00a0 These three episodes were humor heavy.<\/p>\n Overall I really liked The Westerner<\/em>.\u00a0 It is available on dvd and through streaming.\u00a0 I rate it 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n \n The Westerner: Season 1 (1960) Creator : \u00a0Sam Peckinpah Directors:\u00a0 Sam Peckinpah (Eps. 1; 3; 6; 12;13); Andr\u00e9 De Toth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29052,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051\/revisions\/29052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\")
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