Tonight TV Land Features the New Show-"The Dark Screen" at 6pm, Anyone going to watch?-LOL

no; I can't because we're always having dinner then.

What was it about?

anything better then gunsmoke and Bonanza my god them 2 shows are run 2 death nobody cares about them anymore not sure what i be watching at 6:00pm but sure wont be Gunsmoke and bonanza

I care about them! They're 2 of my favorite shows on TV LAND and I hope they NEVER take them off. (and; from what I hear,, they plan on showing "Gunsmoke" as long as possible:) :) )

cause tv land has no taste they rather show 50 60s westerns people fall asleep on rather then cool awesome 80s adventure shows more of us are in2 anything better then gunsmoke and Bonanza unless u want a show u want to watch before u fall asleep also has worst songs ever.

I care about them! They're 2 of my favorite shows on TV LAND and I hope they NEVER take them off. (and; from what I hear,, they plan on showing "Gunsmoke" as long as possible:) :) )
Someday space travelers will visit another planet. And when they reach that
planet, they will find beings who have been monitoring our television signals.
And they will find a replica of the Ponderosa ranch and the Long Branch Saloon!

cause tv land has no taste they rather show 50 60s westerns people fall asleep on rather then cool awesome 80s adventure shows more of us are in2 anything better then gunsmoke and Bonanza unless u want a show u want to watch before u fall asleep also has worst songs ever.

First, some of us enjoy Bonanza and Gunsmoke. Second, please learn to type correctly.

:yeahthat

sorry i been sick for while and i wrote it in hurrey and for some that like them 2 shows cool nothing wrong with that.we all got diff taste then others

Well...actually..."Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" are huge ratings winners for TVLand...yet "MacGyver" and "Hunter" (two "cool awesome 80s adventure shows") are pretty much gone from the network entirely (I think McG airs sometimes, but I don't keep up with TVLand's schedule like I used to).

Personally, I have no problem with the westerns, as long as they are aired a reasonable amount of time. They both ran for a very very long time (Bonanza: 1959-1973; Gunsmoke: 1955-1975, but I think TVLand only has rights to the 1966-1975 episodes) so I would say an episode a day for weekdays with one three-hour marathon for each show on the weekend to help speed the run along. That'd be 8 episodes a week and it'd take a wee bit over a year to complete the entire run of "Bonanza" and several months to get through all of the episodes from the last nine years of "Gunsmoke."

TVLand does nee diversity with their dramas, I do have to admit. "Star Trek," while not one of my favorite shows, definitely helps. There's two westerns, one family drama, and now one science fiction drama. Of course, I'd like to see something soapy on the schedule (come on TVLand...Knots Landing, Dynasty, and Falcon Crest have all been jilted by SOAPnet now...any ONE of them would be GREAT), but I'd also love to see a medical drama and maybe a crime drama. This would be a great daytime schedule (TVLand should *always* build its daytime schedule on hour-long dramas, IMO) for me:

11am: "Gunsmoke" (a timeslot it held for years)
12pm: "Bonanza"
1pm: "Hart to Hart" or "Kojak" or "Ironside" or "Quincy ME" etc
2pm: "Marcus Welby MD" or "Medical Center" or "Emergency!" etc
3pm: "Knots Landing" or "Dynasty" or "Falcon Crest" etc
~~~
6pm: "Little House on the Prairie"
7pm: "Star Trek"

LHOTP and ST could get repeat airings during the late night (4am and 5am would be ideal). On the weekends, "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" could have a six-hour "Goes West" marathon, with three episodes of each show on the Saturday and the regular schedule would resume on the Sunday.

Shows I'd like to see on TVLand anytime:

I Love Lucy
Leave it to Beaver
Roseanne
Brady Bunch
Donna Reed
Honeymooners
Little House on the Prairie
Columbo
Coach
King of the Hill
Big Valley
Bullwinkle
Popeye (old)
Father Knows Best
Superman
Jonny Quest
Ozzie and Harriet

Shows I'd like to see on TVLand anytime:

I Love Lucy
Leave it to Beaver
Roseanne
Brady Bunch
Donna Reed
Honeymooners
Little House on the Prairie
Columbo
Coach
King of the Hill
Big Valley
Bullwinkle
Popeye (old)
Father Knows Best
Superman
Jonny Quest
Ozzie and Harriet
I pretty much agree with your list. Of course, Lucy, Beaver, Little House, and the Brady Bunch are already on TVLand.

And I forgot: Carol Burnett

I like Gunsmoke and Bonanza but, I still would like to see more of the Chester episodes of Gunsmoke. The only ones I have seen are the ones on the DVD. Lucky for us Voulme 3 comes out soon.

that's because TV LAND only has the rights to the color episodes.

I agree with you, though. I'd also like to see the ones with Chester, also the half-hour episodes.

Well...actually..."Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" are huge ratings winners for TVLand...yet "MacGyver" and "Hunter" (two "cool awesome 80s adventure shows") are pretty much gone from the network entirely (I think McG airs sometimes, but I don't keep up with TVLand's schedule like I used to).

Personally, I have no problem with the westerns, as long as they are aired a reasonable amount of time. They both ran for a very very long time (Bonanza: 1959-1973; Gunsmoke: 1955-1975, but I think TVLand only has rights to the 1966-1975 episodes) so I would say an episode a day for weekdays with one three-hour marathon for each show on the weekend to help speed the run along. That'd be 8 episodes a week and it'd take a wee bit over a year to complete the entire run of "Bonanza" and several months to get through all of the episodes from the last nine years of "Gunsmoke."

TVLand does nee diversity with their dramas, I do have to admit. "Star Trek," while not one of my favorite shows, definitely helps. There's two westerns, one family drama, and now one science fiction drama. Of course, I'd like to see something soapy on the schedule (come on TVLand...Knots Landing, Dynasty, and Falcon Crest have all been jilted by SOAPnet now...any ONE of them would be GREAT), but I'd also love to see a medical drama and maybe a crime drama. This would be a great daytime schedule (TVLand should *always* build its daytime schedule on hour-long dramas, IMO) for me:

11am: "Gunsmoke" (a timeslot it held for years)
12pm: "Bonanza"
1pm: "Hart to Hart" or "Kojak" or "Ironside" or "Quincy ME" etc
2pm: "Marcus Welby MD" or "Medical Center" or "Emergency!" etc
3pm: "Knots Landing" or "Dynasty" or "Falcon Crest" etc
~~~
6pm: "Little House on the Prairie"
7pm: "Star Trek"

LHOTP and ST could get repeat airings during the late night (4am and 5am would be ideal). On the weekends, "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke" could have a six-hour "Goes West" marathon, with three episodes of each show on the Saturday and the regular schedule would resume on the Sunday.


They only lasted a long time because there was no cable in the 50's and 60's. Come on, everyone knows that's why people watched Gunsmoke/Bonanza back then. It was no other options.

They only lasted a long time because there was no cable in the 50's and 60's. Come on, everyone knows that's why people watched Gunsmoke/Bonanza back then. It was no other options.

It has everything you could want, a good story, great charcters, some funny situations, fine acting, believable plots, that is why everyone watched (and still watches) Gunsmoke.

It has everything you could want, a good story, great charcters, some funny situations, fine acting, believable plots, that is why everyone watched (and still watches) Gunsmoke.


I think it was mainly because the TV set was so new at the time those shows were created that people were just happy to watch anything. I think that played a major part in people watching those Westerns

I think it was mainly because the TV set was so new at the time those shows were created that people were just happy to watch anything. I think that played a major part in people watching those Westerns

Then why do people still watch them today?

It wasn't just on TV either. Westerns had been around in the movies since the 30's

Then why do people still watch them today?

It wasn't just on TV either. Westerns had been around in the movies since the 30's


Probably because they just was forced to find something interesting about it since there were not many channels. So my grandmom is a Forced Fan of Gunsmoke-lol

Probably because they just was forced to find something interesting about it since there were not many channels. So my grandmom is a Forced Fan of Gunsmoke-lol

Like I said, what about the movies. There were a lot more movies than shows and people still watched the western movies. And I didn't watch Gunsmoke when it was first one and I am a fan. This is just one case where I can't agree with you.

I watched Gunsmoke in primetime. My whole family did and they also watched Bonanza. I remember going outside to play Cowboys and Indians. I had a Cowboy hat and of course my play gun and other kids in the neighborhood did too. Westerns were very popular when I was a kid. After school I would come home and watch Big Valley, Wild Wild West and The Virginian which were airing in syndication on my local channels and this was in the 70's.

Like I said, what about the movies. There were a lot more movies than shows and people still watched the western movies. And I didn't watch Gunsmoke when it was first one and I am a fan. This is just one case where I can't agree with you.


You are a fan because you have so many other options-lol You are not a Forced Fan because of Cable and having the option to turn to so many other channels

They only lasted a long time because there was no cable in the 50's and 60's. Come on, everyone knows that's why people watched Gunsmoke/Bonanza back then. It was no other options.
HUH? Solomon, you make it sound like there was only 1 CHANNEL back then!

HUH? Solomon, you make it sound like there was only 1 CHANNEL back then!


It wasn't ONE other Channel it was TWO other channels-lol Like I said not many options and Gunsmoke would not survive in 2006

It might sound incredible today, but in 1959 there were 32 different
western series on television featuring such colorful characters as Wyatt Earp,
Cheyenne Bodie, Matt Dillon, Paladin, Lucas McCain, and Bat Masterson.

Yes, it began in the movies (and radio): Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy
Rogers, and The Lone Ranger were TV's first cowboy heroes. The difference is
that--for the most part--the first westerns were aimed primarily at children
and had simple plots. Television created, for prime time, a new genre: the
"adult western," with less gunplay and more sophisticated plots with sermons
about brotherhood and nonviolence. STAR TREK did the same thing for
space heroes; in fact, Gene Roddenberry pitched his show to NBC as a
"WAGON TRAIN to the stars." The western stands alone among all the forms
of drama, with its own conventions, rules, vocabulary and atmosphere. It
is uniquely American, although it has been imitated all over the world. Just
look at Joss Whedon's hybrid of the horse opera and the space opera:
FIREFLY/SERENITY. The western genre is here to stay. Deal with it,
pardner.

It might sound incredible today, but in 1959 there were 32 different
western series on television featuring such colorful characters as Wyatt Earp,
Cheyenne Bodie, Matt Dillon, Paladin, Lucas McCain, and Bat Masterson.

Yes, it began in the movies (and radio): Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy
Rogers, and The Lone Ranger were TV's first cowboy heroes. The difference is
that--for the most part--the first westerns were aimed primarily at children
and had simple plots. Television created, for prime time, a new genre: the
"adult western," with less gunplay and more sophisticated plots with sermons
about brotherhood and nonviolence. STAR TREK did the same thing for
space heroes; in fact, Gene Roddenberry pitched his show to NBC as a
"WAGON TRAIN to the stars." The western stands alone among all the forms
of drama, with its own conventions, rules, vocabulary and atmosphere. It
is uniquely American, although it has been imitated all over the world. Just
look at Joss Whedon's hybrid of the horse opera and the space opera:
FIREFLY/SERENITY. The western genre is here to stay. Deal with it,
pardner.


You say all that to say What?

You say all that to say What?

People were fans of Westerns way before they were ever on TV

It might sound incredible today, but in 1959 there were 32 different
western series on television featuring such colorful characters as Wyatt Earp,
Cheyenne Bodie, Matt Dillon, Paladin, Lucas McCain, and Bat Masterson.

Yes, it began in the movies (and radio): Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy
Rogers, and The Lone Ranger were TV's first cowboy heroes. The difference is
that--for the most part--the first westerns were aimed primarily at children
and had simple plots. Television created, for prime time, a new genre: the
"adult western," with less gunplay and more sophisticated plots with sermons
about brotherhood and nonviolence. STAR TREK did the same thing for
space heroes; in fact, Gene Roddenberry pitched his show to NBC as a
"WAGON TRAIN to the stars." The western stands alone among all the forms
of drama, with its own conventions, rules, vocabulary and atmosphere. It
is uniquely American, although it has been imitated all over the world. Just
look at Joss Whedon's hybrid of the horse opera and the space opera:
FIREFLY/SERENITY. The western genre is here to stay. Deal with it,
pardner.
and I think "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" the first "adult western" and the second one was "Gunsmoke".

and I think "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" was the first "adult western" and the second one was "Gunsmoke".

I'd like to see:

I love Lucy
Donna Reed Show
Car 54 Where Are You?
The Lucy Show first three seasons
Here's Lucy
Phil Silvers Show
Family Affair
The Ghost And Mrs. Muir
The Mother's In Law
Julia
Hazel
The Honeymooners
Rowan & Martin's Laugh In
Bewitched
That Girl