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I'm gonna keep on posting!
One of these days, somebody's gonna ride in, belly up to the bar and have a drink with me! Who knows?
It may just be YOU!

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I just know that there are more fans out there!

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It's a Western TV show from 1967–1971, MIch. I've never seen it; my Dad used to watch it.

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It looks good from the pics/clips I've seen and the fact that my Dad watched it. I'm a Big Valley devotee myself. There are so many quality shows, who has the time to see 'em all?

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Hi Wuchak! If you like The Big Valley, I have no doubt you may like this one.
All 97 episodes are on YouTube.

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Thanks Margo; I'll certainly give it a shot if I see it on Roku, Pluto or whatever.

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If you have Roku, you can watch it on YouTube.

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Okay, I'll look into it. :)

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Hi! That's so sweet of you. This is actually a TV show I use to watch back in the 60s. i see it each morning on the Heroes and Icons Channel. I ran across it one morning and checked to see if I could find it on YouTube. I couldn't believe my luck! They have all four seasons on there!
This is more info on the show.
If you aren't really interested, I understand. I think it was nice of you to stop by and at least say Hi! I have been posting for the past few weeks... just talking to the ghosts and trying to wake it up around here.

The High Chaparral (tv show): The Cannon family runs the High Chaparral Ranch in the Arizona Territory in 1870s. Big John wants to establish his cattle empire despite Indian hostility. He's aided by brother Buck and son... » Also his wife who is killed by Indians.
He makes an interesting bargain with a wealthy Ranch owner on the Mexican border of his land and gains new family members

Cast: Leif Erickson (Big John Cannon 97 episodes, 1967-1971), , Cameron Mitchell (Buck Cannon 97 episodes, 1967-1971), , Henry Darrow (Manolito Montoya 97 episodes, 1967-1971)

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I hope this is something you might enjoy. There are a few clunkers in the bunch, but for the most part, many of the episodes are quite good. When you acquaint yourself with the characters, you really do begin to care about them.

I continue to post on boards all over the place here in the hope that others will eventually respond. Today is quite a nice surprise here!
If people don't show up to talk on some of those boards, I just visit with the ghosts. They don't seem to mind, and they never get snarky with me!😊

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I liked it a lot when it was first shown. I haven't seen it since, but I imagine it would hold up well.

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It holds up very well. I watched it religiously in it's first run, and of course, I watched the summer reruns as well! I had to get my Manolito fix when I was a young girl.
I have been watching it on YouTube, a few episodes a day, for the past few weeks. All 97 episodes are there. There are a few clunckers here and there, but some of the episodes are quite powerful.

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I remember this show well Miss Margo. It wasn’t exactly a favorite of mine, but it was a pretty good show. I always liked Cameron Mitchell, and remember when he played one of the bad guys in Hombre. I seem to remember him being in an anti-smoking commercial at the time that he was dying from lung cancer. I was surprised when I looked up “Blue Boy” to discover that this “kid” was born in 1939! I suppose its been a few years since the 1960’s ended 😀

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i always liked Cameron Mitchell too. Aside from this, he always seemed to play the heavy in other things I would see him in. Even the musical, Carousal.
I remember Mark Slade in a few other things before he played Blue. i remember first seeing him in a small part in Splendor in the Grass.
i looked him up too. I wanted to see what he looks like these days. For his age, not bad!
Henry Darrow went on to such shows as Harry o. also the roles of Zorro and the father of Zorro.

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I was only five when the show went off the air, but I was a huge fan. I liked it more than Bonanza or Gunsmoke, which I think were the only other two western shows still on the air by the time I got old enough to watch evening TV. The reasons I liked it were #1 that there were many more episodes featuring Indians and #2 that it looked more like a theatrical movie than the stagy looking TV sets of the other shows. The outdoor Arizona locations of High Chaparral were so much better than the usual soundstages and the hills outside Hollywood. My favorite episodes were ones that focused on Buck, Blue and Manolito encountering Apaches.

I still have a High Chaparral book called "Apache Way" that my mom bought me back then, and also a set of small 1 inch tall cowboys made by Airfix, including character figures of Buck, Manolito, Blue and a double figure of John and Victoria.

I've been recording episodes on DVR lately and the show is just as good if not better than my faded memories of a five-year-old me watching my favorite cowboy and Indian show.

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YAY! A fellow fan! So happy to meet you.
I'm in complete agreement with you about the way this show was shot in Arizona. The action is amazing!
I am extremely envious. You have character figures? I didn't even know those things existed! Lucky you!
I am considering ordering Henry Darrow's autobiography, Lightening in a Bottle. I understand that he wrote a great deal about his working on The High Chaparral. I have seen that it's for sale on Amazon.... where else?

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Nice to meet you too! Here is a link to a short article about the Airfix High Chaparral figures. The set here is shown in ivory colored plastic but mine were in a nice western-looking rust-brown color. Sometimes they still show up on eBay. Most of the figures are just generic cowboys, but the characters are shown in the last row. I am sure you will recognize them right away. They were very tiny figures and I wish they had made larger versions, but I really enjoyed playing with them.

Just cut and paste the link into your address bar.

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=41

My mom really liked Henry Darrow, so she watched the show with me. Cameron Mitchell as Uncle Buck kind of reminded me of my dad, but a little rowdier. I remember Henry Darrow showing up in a guest role in a police show we watched once, too, but I forget which one it was. (I just saw your other post, so it must have been on Harry O.)

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Oh, I like those. They are very recognizable. Thanks for the link!
I was a Henry Darrow fan too. He was a ladie's man with a killer smile. The eyes were very expressive too. Uncle Buck was my second favorite character. He was one fun guy with a big heart. a loving uncle too.
Yes. The show was Harry o. He had a regular role in that.

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I can’t remember the title of the episode. But there was an episode in which some dude known for his gunfighting prowess was attempting to draw Buck into a gunfight. Buck knew that he didn’t stand a chance up against the guy, and in the end, more or less told him that if he kept threatening him, that he would get him anyway that he could; even if it meant sniping the guy when he was least expecting it. This freaked the bad guy out bad enough, that he backed right down, and immediately left town.

I liked this episode, because it had realistic outcome. In any other western series of the era, the protagonist would have went up against the adversary, and of course the outcome would always favor the protagonist, which is painfully predictable.

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At the moment, this one doesn't ring any bells.. If I should see it, I'll let you know the title of the episode.
There is one involving Blue that sounds almost like that. The protagonist was played by James Mitchum; Robert Mitchum's son.
Amoung a few silly episodes, I have to say that there are a number of episodes that deal with things in very realistic ways.

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