History of the TV Western
By Kevin Fox The TV Western reigned supreme in the Fifties and Sixties. There were about 120 of them depending on what you consider a Western. Like the post World War II time in which they flourished, you could always tell the good guys from the bad guys. And none of the guns were fully automatic. In June of 1949, Hopalong Cassidy aired on NBC. William Boyd had created the character of Hopalong Cassidy for “B” movie features and the first episodes were adaptations of those. L