I loved this, It's been a long time since a "forsaken western" has popped up. Glad to see it, I love this series. This episode would've been a great tv series, in my opinion. Thanks for showing this.
CMR is my favorite western artist. I lived in Great Falls Montana, growing up and went to his gallery and home dozens of times. I went back about 15 years ago, sad as now it is all commercial while they sell his art, it's turned into a bazaar type mindset. Try going to giant springs and stop where they built the dam. When Lewis and Clark went through the area, the sound of the great falls was heard miles away. It's about 50 miles to Glacier, but now need a reservation, stop on the other side of the Rockies-St. Ignatius church-some of the most beautiful mural art in any church. Open your eyes and maybe a mama mountain goat sheep with baby will visit with you. Anytime you go out in the wild take a private locator beacon.
I think they missed the boat on this one. I believe they could make it today and folks would watch it. My dad would have loved this he was a huge western fan. I come by my love of westerns honestly.
Your “Westerns on the Web Productions are always outstanding and appreciated. Thanks for the western art lesson in this Forsaken Westerns Episode. Love it!
I already gave it a like I guess a year ago' but I'll definitely give it another one by my word, I think it's the third time I've seen this one, every time at the end when they show his painting on the wall ,tell his story, I get goosebumps. There may be some about as good, but I don't think they make them much better. What a treasure.
Watched this one before ,this looks like it would of been a good show. I surely would of watched it . I was born 1951, this program would of came on about the time we got a TV.
It was, and this is absolutely true, it was the Television series Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier. I started checking books out of the library. I liked the books so much. I started buying books and collecting them, today I have over 350 books on Davy Crockett and the Alamo. I have the same about the French and Indian War. Yes, Fess Parker got me into history . Im very thankful for that.
This was a great story, IMHO anyway. I'd have been a dedicated fan of this series IF, it had taken off. Russell and Remington, my two favorite artists.
Wished that this was a series back in the day, would like to see it made today as a series or a movie but I don’t believe there is anyone who could do it justice, writers,directors or actors this day and age. I really like old westerns but this one got away.
Exactly the way I feel about this o n e and dozens of other great pilots that were dropped in those same days - circa 1960-63 is A few yrs before there was a really great but too short series with a man that was also one of the best stuntman and stunt director, Jock Mahoney. It was a short series but great, He played a gambler and a great gunman, sharply dressed.... and capable fighter, too. Jock Mahoney as Yancy Derringer. Oct. 1958 - June 1959. Really great show. Ken Curtis in one episode as a gambler. And sang a very beautiful song during that episode. Quite a dandy of a character, too...
I do believe I remember seeing that pilot a couple of decades ago or so. Had similar feel to it as did the short lived radio series the Six Shooter with James Stewart.
Bob T Pard' I Recon if there's any comments out there from Fess Parker as to why it didn't go to the rodeo, I do know one thing" I'm sure glad you do what you do' so well Bob 🐌'Thank you Pardner. Oh shoot almost forgot to put my boots back on'🤠
Thanks Bob...I never knew that OL' Fess had done this, I thot I'd seen everthing he done, and I'm 75, so I seen a bunch of it......take care.....OnWard......
I had to come back to this presentation (Western television shows FULL LENGTH EPISODES) to say that your closing commentary was the best that I've ever seen. FYI I'm 72... so some would say that I've seen a lot. Anyway: During the commentary you were wearing your gun as a right handed person would... but, but, but During your intro to "Russell" you wore the gun left handed. You are doing (in my opinion) a great job! Keep it up!!
Love the idea of a series based on real cowboy and real artist Charlie Russell. Parker's probably taller, but the temperament's credible. Garland was always good, as was Flippen. And Borden Chase was behind it all! Not a bad roster. Wish they'd costumed the cowboys more like Russell's accurate paintings, but TV back then wouldn't have been able to handle it. Check the outfits in Tombstone, Monte Walsh, Wild Bill for some instances. I'd like to see an episode where Russell and Remington have a fast draw showdown, know what I mean?
Paul Carr has been a supporting player in many stage, film and TV roles on television he has guested in many tv shows both westerns and non westerns he's even had recurring roles on several daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives, General Hospital (twice in two different stints as two different characters), Generations, the Young and the Restless and Jay C. Flippen a veteran of many films and television shows and in later years after losing a leg he still acted very regularly, Beverly Garland best known for films, tv and My Three Sons and the Scarecrow & Mrs. King, other performers in the cast as the stage robbers also regular supporting players in many films and television shows, veterans like James Anderson, Joseph Ruskin, George D. Wallace, Frank Chase and Joseph Breen usually as heavies/bad guys, others in the cast I recognize by face but not by name probably bit players and extras who have been seen in the background of many films and television shows, would have been a great series but only certain westerns were able to make it more than one or two seasons not all westerns could be as successful as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, the Virginian, Wagon Train, the Rifleman, Daniel Boone and others that lasted longer and well the westerns fell by the way side in the mid 70's and the westerns became only occasional on tv at that time I the 70's and 80's and the westerns weren't the same after that and sorry for rambling but I just turned 58 and my memories of the classic days of tv are still alive as long as I can find them on TH-cam.
You have to remember this was a low budget film made a long time ago. I think it still could become a series or a movie.my grandfather was pesonal friends with Cmr. And theres lots of stories. There is a great museum in great falls mt. Lots of art work and his original studio. First class and well worth the visit. You will need the best part of a day to get thru it. By the way i was born in 1951 and i remember the stories my grandpa told me
In the 1950s and early 1960s it was popular to highly romanticize and fictionalize real men of the old west. Here in Montana Charlie Russell is well remembered for his art. We have the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls and the largest canvass Russell ever painted, "Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross’ Hole" (12 ft x 25 ft), hanging over the Speaker's platform in the Montana House of Representatives. Rumor has it that the dog or wolf in the foreground was strategically positioned there by Charlie to snarl at the Speaker, a man he purportedly did not like.
Shows like this made me a feared of stampedes and quicksand, now I've been around cattle over 50 years I've never seen a stampede and never got caught in quicksand...
I actually found some "quicksand" in the desert outside El Paso, so I tossed a rock in it. It was about 4 inches deep ! Not a good place to hide the bodies, after all
The kid does not realize he did nothing wrong; it is just that he have a conscious. The thugs looked and asked for and found the fate they sought. Sad but true.
Russell with the name alone I wouldn't pick this pilot either. I am now editing because after watching this great pilot I quite enjoyed it. Not only that but in one of my life experience I came across some painting that I love and and wished I was in the scene (I was a youngster then), and had no idea it was made by Russel. I think I had a copy of some bronze sculptor of a man on a horse that's broncing. Made also by him and again I didn't know. Now I'm in my 60s and the sculpture is gone.
Loved watching this. The real Charlie Russell was quite an interesting character. Always loved watching Fess Parker in anything he acted in
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Me too
Great show. Should have been picked up. We need shows like this today.
Weird that no one picked up this episode to air the series those days!? It's really a good episode... 👍
I agree very well written and acted there was just a lot of completion for westerns back then it was probably just a numbers game
Can't believe how many times it was going to be maid and was always dropped even with the big stars
I loved this, It's been a long time since a "forsaken western" has popped up. Glad to see it, I love this series. This episode would've been a great tv series, in my opinion. Thanks for showing this.
I agree.
So happy to see “forsaken west” again. Could have been a entertaining program.
Very nice story with a lot of charm. Wonderful verbal picture by Parker of the beauty of living outdoors
Fantastic bit of History thanks cowboy.🤠
That was a ripper great history as well thank you so much from down under ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
CMR is my favorite western artist. I lived in Great Falls Montana, growing up and went to his gallery and home dozens of times. I went back about 15 years ago, sad as now it is all commercial while they sell his art, it's turned into a bazaar type mindset. Try going to giant springs and stop where they built the dam. When Lewis and Clark went through the area, the sound of the great falls was heard miles away. It's about 50 miles to Glacier, but now need a reservation, stop on the other side of the Rockies-St. Ignatius church-some of the most beautiful mural art in any church. Open your eyes and maybe a mama mountain goat sheep with baby will visit with you. Anytime you go out in the wild take a private locator beacon.
Wow. THAT Charles Russell! One of the greatest western artist/sculptors that ever lived!
Wow fantastic show,I've ran into a few historical westerns and really enjoyed this one👍👊
Pity this is a one off i would have enjoyed this as a series, loved it as a pilot. Thanks for the privilege to see this
Wish all the Foraken Westerns episodes were available on dvd and bluray.
Charlie Russell, the artist.
Loved this show, I just wished they had made more. You wonder sometimes how many of these good shows were passed up.
A great lot of them in the same days as this one!!!
So many bad ones were taken up!!!
Very sad.
I think they missed the boat on this one. I believe they could make it today and folks would watch it. My dad would have loved this he was a huge western fan. I come by my love of westerns honestly.
Your “Westerns on the Web Productions are always outstanding and appreciated. Thanks for the western art lesson in this Forsaken Westerns Episode. Love it!
Thanks! Great episode.
Great show wish there were more episodes
Enjoyed that western very much, would’ve liked to of seen more of them. Thank you Bob Terry.
Damn!! I’d of watched this show. Thank you for putting it out to see
Thanks Bob. Never saw this before.
I already gave it a like I guess a year ago' but I'll definitely give it another one by my word, I think it's the third time I've seen this one, every time at the end when they show his painting on the wall ,tell his story, I get goosebumps. There may be some about as good, but I don't think they make them much better. What a treasure.
That was a nice treat. Thank you
Fess Parker was just Sensational 😅 Seen this episode B4 . Very good messages in this TV 📺 Flick
Good show and information
Thanks for posting another video , keep them coming
Watched this one before ,this looks like it would of been a good show. I surely would of watched it . I was born 1951, this program would of came on about the time we got a TV.
I love discovering obscure abandoned pilots to potentially great shows💕
Wow, great 1st Western; too bad it wasn't a series. Fess Parker, supee great actor!!! Miss him!!!
C M Russell was the best, in his younger days he was known as Kid Russell.
Great show.
would have been a big fan of this show
Beverly Garland, always striking, always a strong female character, always watchable.
Her terrific but short lived TV series DECOY comes to mind. That was her best role. Only lasted one season.
Nice rack, too.
She got a lot of work! Damn good actress!
It was, and this is absolutely true, it was the Television series Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier. I started checking books out of the library. I liked the books so much. I started buying books and collecting them, today I have over 350 books on Davy Crockett and the Alamo. I have the same about the French and Indian War. Yes, Fess Parker got me into history . Im very thankful for that.
I have a grow collection of real pirates of the Caribbean.
This was a great story, IMHO anyway. I'd have been a dedicated fan of this series IF, it had taken off.
Russell and Remington, my two favorite artists.
Wished that this was a series back in the day, would like to see it made today as a series or a movie but I don’t believe there is anyone who could do it justice, writers,directors or actors this day and age. I really like old westerns but this one got away.
Exactly the way I feel about this o n e and dozens of other great pilots that were dropped in those same days - circa 1960-63 is
A few yrs before there was a really great but too short series with a man that was also one of the best stuntman and stunt director, Jock Mahoney. It was a short series but great, He played a gambler and a great gunman, sharply dressed.... and capable fighter, too.
Jock Mahoney as Yancy Derringer.
Oct. 1958 - June 1959.
Really great show.
Ken Curtis in one episode as a gambler. And sang a very beautiful song during that episode. Quite a dandy of a character, too...
I do believe I remember seeing that pilot a couple of decades ago or so. Had similar feel to it as did the short lived radio series the Six Shooter with James Stewart.
Enjoyed this immensely. I kinda wish they'd made more!
I'm glad it's back.
Your videos are wonderful😊
I loved that introduction to the adverts.
This was WONDERFUL CANNOT believe networks didn't pick up..idiots ...Chas M RUSSELL..so interesting!!
That was a great show.
Know that was a good movie. Different kind for Fess. Thanks for sharing
I think this sure could have been a great show. Especially with Fess Parker!!
Bob T Pard' I
Recon if there's any comments out there from Fess Parker as to why it didn't go to the rodeo,
I do know one thing" I'm sure glad you do what you do' so well Bob 🐌'Thank you Pardner.
Oh shoot almost forgot to put my boots back on'🤠
Thanks Bob...I never knew that OL' Fess had done this, I thot I'd seen everthing he done, and I'm 75, so I seen a bunch of it......take care.....OnWard......
I had to come back to this presentation (Western television shows FULL LENGTH EPISODES) to say that your closing commentary was the best that I've ever seen. FYI I'm 72... so some would say that I've seen a lot. Anyway: During the commentary you were wearing your gun as a right handed person would... but, but, but During your intro to "Russell" you wore the gun left handed. You are doing (in my opinion) a great job! Keep it up!!
Never be another Fess Parker until we get to Heaven. 😊
This is a good movie, can't get tired of watching it 👌
Wow! Fess Parker always my favorite.. I named my dalmatian Davy Crockett. 🥰
Enjoyed that! Thank you!
Too bad no one picked it up! A great story and Fess carried it off like every other part he took on.
Fess Parker really had a tv presence. There's no doubt about that!
Love the idea of a series based on real cowboy and real artist Charlie Russell. Parker's probably taller, but the temperament's credible. Garland was always good, as was Flippen. And Borden Chase was behind it all! Not a bad roster. Wish they'd costumed the cowboys more like Russell's accurate paintings, but TV back then wouldn't have been able to handle it. Check the outfits in Tombstone, Monte Walsh, Wild Bill for some instances. I'd like to see an episode where Russell and Remington have a fast draw showdown, know what I mean?
Thanks ! ❗
U learn something new each day
Love this, shame it wasn't picked up.
I am n love with Russell!❤ too bad they didn’t make a series of this! They were stupid!
Thank you. I remember seeing this. Wondered why there were not any more?
Paul Carr has been a supporting player in many stage, film and TV roles
on television he has guested in many tv shows both westerns and non westerns
he's even had recurring roles on several daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives,
General Hospital (twice in two different stints as two different characters), Generations,
the Young and the Restless and Jay C. Flippen a veteran of many films and television shows
and in later years after losing a leg he still acted very regularly, Beverly Garland best known for
films, tv and My Three Sons and the Scarecrow & Mrs. King, other performers in the cast as
the stage robbers also regular supporting players in many films and television shows,
veterans like James Anderson, Joseph Ruskin, George D. Wallace, Frank Chase and Joseph Breen
usually as heavies/bad guys, others in the cast I recognize by face but not by name probably bit players
and extras who have been seen in the background of many films and television shows, would have been
a great series but only certain westerns were able to make it more than one or two seasons not all westerns
could be as successful as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, the Virginian, Wagon Train, the Rifleman, Daniel Boone and
others that lasted longer and well the westerns fell by the way side in the mid 70's and the westerns
became only occasional on tv at that time I the 70's and 80's and the westerns weren't the same
after that and sorry for rambling but I just turned 58 and my memories of the classic days of tv
are still alive as long as I can find them on TH-cam.
You have to remember this was a low budget film made a long time ago. I think it still could become a series or a movie.my grandfather was pesonal friends with Cmr. And theres lots of stories. There is a great museum in great falls mt. Lots of art work and his original studio. First class and well worth the visit. You will need the best part of a day to get thru it. By the way i was born in 1951 and i remember the stories my grandpa told me
You're back .... Yesss !!! 👍
In the 1950s and early 1960s it was popular to highly romanticize and fictionalize real men of the old west. Here in Montana Charlie Russell is well remembered for his art. We have the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls and the largest canvass Russell ever painted, "Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross’ Hole" (12 ft x 25 ft), hanging over the Speaker's platform in the Montana House of Representatives. Rumor has it that the dog or wolf in the foreground was strategically positioned there by Charlie to snarl at the Speaker, a man he purportedly did not like.
The famous "Last of 5,000 (Waiting for a Chinook)" postcard is also on display at the Montana Historical Society, in Helena.
FESS PARKER IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ACTORS EVER SEEN !!!!
BUMMER THAT THIS SHOW WASN'T PICKED UP !!!!!
Wish they put these back on Prime.
Wow, good show. It would have been a great series!
The Prime-Time slots in those years were chock-a-block full of Westerns. This would have been only one among many.
To bad this never made it passed 1 episode.
This would have been a great show.
Fess parker was my favorite!
Brilliant
I was almost on that Daniel Boone show with my pal Darby Hinton. But dad was in the Air Force and didn't want to resign and move to Hollywood. 😢
Good movie to short 💯💯
What a shame this wasn't picked up. Not for historical accuracy, but for Parker's aw shucks, humorous hero, and Garland's ready-for-anything romance.
Excellent.
I really liked this one too bad they didn't make it a series. Fess Parker was very good in this.
This would've made great series !
I think this would have been a really great show!
Wow!! So sad this didn't continue
Good movie
Never heard of the Man but you would think American History in School would Teach there Own Real History🇺🇸
It would be ideal to pick this up now.
America could benefit seeing one of our real stand-outs at This point.
This series had promise, too bad no one picked it up.
I hate hate hate they did not make a long running series out of this.
With the young hothead learning what it means to kill someone, this had some similar tropes and themes to Unforgiven, just four decades or so earlier.
Do not forsake me ohh my Western and leave me hanging ornn A Treeeee😎dats all y'all
Shows like this made me a feared of stampedes and quicksand, now I've been around cattle over 50 years I've never seen a stampede and never got caught in quicksand...
I actually found some "quicksand" in the desert outside El Paso, so I tossed a rock in it. It was about 4 inches deep ! Not a good place to hide the bodies, after all
The kid does not realize he did nothing wrong; it is just that he have a conscious.
The thugs looked and asked for and found the fate they sought.
Sad but true.
Amazing Story ! I wonder what Art Department @ Which Education institute caries this information ?
Love it like John Wayne Groove Machine 😅🤣😂😆
I have a Russell water color. Parents got in Jackson hole...
Bev Garland was a sassy cutie pie - one of my ATF actresses.
This woulda been helluva show. Too bad they ain’t morel
Russell with the name alone I wouldn't pick this pilot either. I am now editing because after watching this great pilot I quite enjoyed it. Not only that but in one of my life experience I came across some painting that I love and and wished I was in the scene (I was a youngster then), and had no idea it was made by Russel. I think I had a copy of some bronze sculptor of a man on a horse that's broncing. Made also by him and again I didn't know. Now I'm in my 60s and the sculpture is gone.
Dozens of western series were around at that time, and this one is just a run of the mill stuff.
No different than many others
Surprised it was never taken up , it might even have given Rawhide a run for its money.
Paul Carr was in a good episode of The Fugitive.
Fess Parker also play Daniel Boone.
BEAUTIFUL BEVERLY GARLAND USED TO PLAY AN UNDERCOVER POLICE WOMAN ALONGSIDE GEORGE RAFT IN A SERIES FROM THE EARLY FIFTIES CALKED "DECOY".
It's an outright crime that was the only episode!