Western Genre: Saturday, 28th May, 1977

Between ten o’clock and noon I watched the pop music programme, “Sounds Unlimited”, hosted by Donnie Sutherland. This was followed by “Sonny And Cher” and, from one o’clock, “Survival” in which this afternoon’s edition focuses on the fauna of the English county of Norfolk.

It is really teeming down outside and so I continued to watch Channel Seven, as Collingwood outclassed Hawthorn in the Australian Rules match telecast live from Melbourne.

The quiz programmes, “Jeopardy” and “It’s Academic”, were followed by a pretty disappointing ‘Special’ on British singer, Brian Ferry, from half past six. “Baa Baa Black Sheep” followed that, on Channel Nine, and, from half past eight, this evening’s serving of “Petrocelli” has as a guest star Rory “The Texan” Calhoun.

“The Texan” was a western series, made for television, which ran from 1958-1960. Other series of this genre included: “Rawhide”, “Gunsmoke”, “Wagon Train”, “The Roy Rogers Show”, “Maverick”, “Bonanza”, “Laramie”, “Cheyenne”, “Bat Masterson”, “The Lone Ranger”, “The Cisco Kid”, “Have Gun Will Travel”, “Tales Of The Texas Rangers”, “Bronco”, “The Rifleman”, “Lawman”, “Sugarfoot”, “Wanted Dead Or Alive”, “Johnny Ringo”, “Tales Of Wells Fargo”, “Trackdown” and “Tombstone Territory”.

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