The 1960s was a decade of transition for American television, bridging the black-and-white era of the 1950s with the colorful, more socially aware programming that would emerge in the 1970s. Viewers ...
In the early 1960s, television was exploding with popular Western programs. Gunsmoke and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp had been on for years, and Bonanza had just been launched in 1959, prompting ...