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Thread #163190   Message #3891863
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
02-Dec-17 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
Subject: RE: BS: Favourite TV cowboy
Finished watching Godless last night. I cannot recommend it too much. Some 'Buffalo Soldiers' in that and it was a mini TV series but I don't know if that counts. Back in the heyday of TV westerns I suppose the TV industry was not well know for its equal opportunities policy :-(

Out of interest though I did Google black actors in TV westerns and there do seem to be some. The most interesting being 'The Outcasts' which ran for one series 1968-69. It co-stared Otis Young as a former slave turned bounty hunter who teams up with actor Don Murray, a former Confederate officer and former slave owner who had lost everything during the Civil War. Never saw it but it looks interesting.

DtG