Aloha!

Heroes and Icons starts their old Westerns Reruns on week days with "The Cisco Kid" at 6:00 AM Eastern. I used to watch these reruns as a kid before I went to school. Again, I prefer the older shows from the 50s and very early 60s that were 1/2 hour and in Black and White, but I respect the later 1 hour shows and the shows that were produced in color later on. "Bonanza" was NBCs big surprise since from the very first episode they decided to produce it and shoot it in color. A big deal in 1959!

On Saturdays, ME TV does a nice run of classic Westerns in the mornings and afernoons. Some shows in that lineup I didn't remember as a child either. But we didn't have cable TV so we only got the three networks, and two of them were on UHF so they were a bit snowy and you could not always count on watching them.

Yes, I know that now you could watch some of these on Youtube, but it's different watching them broadcast on TV. It's like reliving your childhood. Well, at least it is for me. Out in my sunroom, I have one of the last 32 inch TUBE televisions that Panasonic put out before the total switch to flat screen LCD. It's still a great TV for watching old Laserdiscs (I have a decent collection of this pre-DVD disc technology - the ones that are 12" in diameter) and it's great for old Westerns.

I don't know "Whiplash" so will have to research that. I didnt' know "Cheyenne" either. Been watching that. "Wanted Dead or Alive" with Steve McQueen is currently my favorite, edging out "Have Gun Will Travel".

Mahalo Partner!

-Zip