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Date Posted: 21:10:28 03/11/13 Mon
Author: Tim
Subject: The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp on TV Land (2005)
In reply to: Joe H. 's message, "Re: Favorite episodes of . . . "The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp"" on 15:24:31 03/07/13 Thu

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp was a little before my time, and I never did see it in any reruns in the 1960s or 1970s. The first time I saw the show was when TV Land added it to their lineup in February 2005. I enjoyed it, but TV Land soon began to show it less frequently, and eventually dropped it just a few months after they had picked it up.

The article below was posted at the sitcomsonline board in 2005 and is still there, but I don't know the original source or author of the piece.


TV LAND GOES WILD FOR

THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP

Western Premieres on Saturday, February 5 at 3pm

Santa Monica, CA, January 25, 2005 – TV Land goes back to the wild, wild west when it adds the classic western, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, to its roster of hit programming. The show stars Hugh O’Brian as the courageous lead character and will premiere on TV Land on Saturday February 5 at 3pm (ET/PT). The series will air as part of the network’s weekend Western block from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., which also features Bonanza and Gunsmoke.

"The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is truly a classic American series," states Larry W. Jones, President, TV Land and Nick at Nite. "The weekly adventures of Marshall Wyatt Earp and his fame and glory have made this a timeless series now and for years to come."

The show is being licensed exclusively to TV Land by Kate Edelman Johnson, daughter of the late Louis F. Edelman, who created and produced the series in 1954. Airing from 1955 to 1961, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp was the first adult western on television, beating out Gunsmoke for that distinction by four days. Of the two series, Wyatt Earp was more upbeat and fast-paced, airing for its entire six-year run on ABC on Tuesday nights.

It featured Hugh O'Brien as the legendary marshall, first in Ellsworth, Kansas, then in Dodge City, Kansas, and finally in Tombstone, Arizona. Using the power of his sidekicks as well as his pistols, Earp continually maintained the law. The series, which is based loosely on fact, emphasized the interrelations of the characters and the plots involved character development and politics as often as they did action. The series ended with the infamous gunfight at the O. K. Corral. During its seven-year run, Wyatt Earp always placed in the top 10 television shows in the nation.

Hugh O’Brian also starred in the action series, Search from 1972-73. He starred on Broadway in Destry Rides Again, First Love, and in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls. He also starred in the national company of Cactus Flower, The Odd Couple, The Tender Trap, A Thousand Clowns, and Plaza Suite. Other credits include The Shootist, Killer Force, Game of Death, Twins, and numerous appearances on Fantasy Island, Love Boat, the T.V. series Paradise, Gunsmoke II, Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, and a Kenny Rogers Gambler IV movie, The Luck of the Draw: The Gambler Returns. Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone was O'Brian's latest film project.

After spending nine inspirational days with the great humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer at his clinic in Africa where he learned that "the most important thing in education is to teach young people to think for themselves," he formed the Hugh O' Brian Youth Foundation (HOBY). Its format for motivation is simple: bring a select group of high school sophomores with demonstrated leadership abilities together with a group of distinguished leaders in business, education, government and the professions, and let the two interact. Using a question-and-answer format, the young people selected annually by over 14,500 public and private high school to attend a HOBY Leadership Seminar held each spring in their state get a realistic look at what makes America's Incentive System work, thus better enabling them "to think for themselves." HOBY is a non-profit organization and is funded solely through the private sector. O’Brian resides in Beverly Hills, CA.

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[> [> [> [> Re: Favorite episodes of "Rawhide" "Gunslinger" & "The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp" -- DAN, 17:05:13 03/15/13 Fri [1]

Before the so called adult westerns, I used to watch the kid TV westerns like "The Lone Ranger," "The Cisco Kid," "Roy Rogers," etc.

I began watching the first three adult westerns with my father around the summer of 1956. Gunsmoke, Cheyenne and Wyatt Earp.
I liked those adult westerns much better than the kid stuff. Then later in the fall of 1957 thru the 1960s I got hooked on many more adult TV westerns.

Unfortunately, "Gunslinger" is one of the shows I never saw except for the one episode I have on VHS, "The Diehards." I also have a Gunslinger comic book.

There's only 12 episodes of Gunslinger but I wish it was on DVD or Encore Westerns because I'd really like to see them all. Encore Westerns ran the 13 episodes of "The Westerner" several years ago on Saturday or Sundays for about a year. So there should be no problem doing the same with Gunslinger.
There are about 5 or 6 episodes available that you can get from some sellers, but I heard the quality was awful, so I'm avoiding them.

A long time passed before I saw Wyatt Earp again.

I didn't see the first season until I bought it on DVD a couple of years ago.
I've been watching the second season on Encore Westerns. Now though, IMO, Wyatt Earp plays kinda like a kid western rather than an adult western. The reason I say this is, Earp shoots more to wound, like Roy Rogers, Cisco, or The Lone Ranger, rather than shooting to kill, like Matt Dillon, Cheyenne, Lucas McCane, etc.

Favortie Episodes:

RAWHIDE:
The Executioner
The Edge of Madness
The Shambling Man
Canliss

LIFE & LEGEND OF WYATT EARP:
Wyatt Earp Becomes a Marshal
Wyatt Comes To Wichita
The Killer
John Wesley Hardin
Dodge City Gets A New Marshal
Fight Or Run

GUNSLINGER:
THe Diehards


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