Older MC readers may also remember them fondly.
There was a period in the late 50's when Warner Brothers produced a series of one hour westerns which just captured the then need by youth to watch westerns, Cheyenne, Maverick, Bronco Lane, Tenderfoot.
During the lock down of 2020 here in the US I found a cable TV channel rebroadcasting these shows and saw a few episodes of Cheyenne, Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel and Wagon Train all of which surprised me as to the level of scripts and acting which far outpaced the obvious low production costs. Money was spent in the right place, actors and scriptwriters.
So in b/w we have Clint Walker of Cheyenne, James Gardner of Maverick and Richard Boone of Have Gun Will Travel. The first two were with the compliments of A.B.C. TELEVISION, LTD the later from ASSOCIATED REDIFFUSION The broadcasters of the shows in London.
In 1959 my mother and I visited NYC to see relatives and the first thing I did on arrival was mail a letter with I think a dollar bill with a coupon from a comic sending off for '100's of Pictures of TV Stars' or some similar offer title. Six weeks later just before we left for the UK the envelope arrived. Unlike the 3.5"x 4.5" b/w glossy photos for London TV stations they were mostly litho printed on glossy paper, not photographic prints.
I didn't keep many, just Ward Bond and Robert Horton from Wagon Train, Jack Kelly from Maverick where he played brother Bart Maverick. The show was so popular they needed a second lead to produce episodes when James Garner was no longer available they replaced him with Roger Moore as British cousin Beau (Beauregarde).
The only colour pictures were Clint Walker and Richard Boone.
Other than these western stars I also saved a publicity photo of Donald Campbell with a printed signature from before his untimely demise.
Have you anything like these?
Brian B
NYC
USA
