"Bronco" (1958) TV series 1958-1962

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Edward Dein

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | unknown

Release Date:

23 September 1958 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

Ty Hardin

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Bronco Layne (68 episodes, 1958-1962)

Runtime:

60 min (68 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Filming Locations:

Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Television

Trivia:

Premiered on ABC on 23 September 1958. Its 68th and final episode aired on 30 April 1962.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from "Cheyenne" (1955)

Black and White

This one goes back a long time. Anyone who remembers the show must be really old. For reasons I do not understand it was never rerun here in Germany. So it is a good age tester. The only thing I remember is that Bronco Lane used to drink water out of his hat. And that I liked it a lot. The fondest and saddest memory is this. I must have been 8 or 9 at the time when a friend told me that his parents just bought a color TV. I said what do you mean "Color?". He said that in it the movies are colored. I told him he was an idiot, of course everything was colored. Well, I went back home switched TV on and yes, Bronco was running and everything was black and white. I could not believe it. I had never noticed before. That was the day when color left my TV life. For a long time at least. (I wonder when I realized that movies were only two-dimensional.)

Years later when my family finally bought a color TV I did not like it and to this day I prefer black and white films to colored. And at least with certain TV series like "The Fugitive" that was colored in later seasons I turn off the color.