The Forsaken Westerns - The Texas Ranger - tv shows full episodes

The Texas Ranger western TV series episode starring Dennis Morgan, Harry Shannon, John Doucette and Strother Martin this is the pilot episode of a suggested TV series titled The Texas Ranger from 1955. This is episode 16 of The Forsaken Westerns, an original TV series produced by Westerns On The Web Productions. In this episode A Texas Ranger arrives in town just as the sheriff is being buried. The Ranger is after the Fox Durkin gang. Ranger Jim Harris tries to form a posse but no one wants to go. Finally he receives help from a few men and they start after the gang. The Forsaken Westerns series contains episodes of TV shows that were never broadcast or have not been broadcast in as many as 65 years. Almost lost forever, these rare television film treasures are now being released and uploaded for free viewing from the www.westernsontheweb.com archive collection. Watch full length western movies and TV shows full episodes on the Westerns On The Web channel and make sure to subscribe. The Forsaken Westerns is hosted by Bob Terry.

[@edwardwillis8197]

True it's imperative that we save all we can of these movies for our grandchildren to watch and their grandchildren.

[@Vps-eb7ej]

SUPERB show. Yes, Dennis Morgan made one of Hollywood's Best... Christmas in Connecticut 🙂

[@VIRGONOMICS]

Hello folks I’m back for another run, with this fantastic television show . I appreciate you guys/gals so much and wish you the very best . “M.E.G.A.” ! Let’s “Make Entertainment Great Again ! God Bless

[@rommellupae3447]

These good ol'e westerns ain't forsaken for God's sakes, it's just that there ain't no U- tubes in my younger days, thanks, bring 'em on!

[@KNT.63]

I know I can download any Western on the web show to watch later and won't be disappointed cuz I haven't seen one yet I didn't like and I've watched quite a few now and that's said with a big smile on my face a twinkle in my eye and on my spur and a tilt on my hat and 100% meant. Pardners

[@thegypsyman9043]

Paul Burke so young I didn't recognize him at first. I remembered him best from 12 O'clock High, then in old Naked City reruns.

[@paulmcginn5146]

thank you bob terry. almost lost, almost forgotten. so appreciate.

[@paulkatz258]

Thanks for uploading this episode.

[@deniseestep2694]

Love this show and all of the old westerns. This would have been a great series. Thank you for bringing them to us!!!!!!!!

[@MaverickBryan-dx3kp]

Great movie

[@lafcat]

Thank You!! Great ending with the gun lore of a hair trigger and leaving an empty chamber to be on the safe side!

[@davekinghorn9567]

John Doucette, Strother Martin, Paul Burke... excellent cast

[@kyldy]

it was great love the Texas Rangers

[@terrydemoski2430]

Awesome thanks your on the right trail

[@mycastle8498]

I had almost forgotten the ol' Westerns. You had to be tough and work hard.

[@williamsteriti2718]

Thanks for the show it's would of made a great show .

[@rogertemple7193]

"Texas Ranger." Starring: Dennis Morgan; Guest Performers: Harry Shannon, John Doucette, Strother Martin, Paul Burke, Howard J. Negley, John Cliff, &: Ray Walker."

[@janeaustin399]

Good run down of the cast. Thanks !

[@donnaallen4959]

Wow, I loved watching the video. Thank you so very much. I'm looking forward to watching many more. 🙋

[@pattygonzales9605]

John Doucette playing a good guy. :-)

[@sridharanv.k.881]

Harry Shannon walks away with the prize. Thanks for posting

[@frankminnier8043]

Great show 👌👍. Thank you for the upload

[@TomTimeTraveler]

What is often overlooked and underappreciated is that these actors had to be fairly decent horsemen. Yes, some had stunt doubles for certain scenes, but generally the actors themselves did most of the riding.

[@DodieBlocker]

great show

[@Vps-eb7ej]

Dennis Morgan reminds me of Gig Young🙂

[@Vps-eb7ej]

Only thing missing is the requisite pretty Farmer's Daughter 🙂. Other than that...a perfect 10.

[@terrydemoski2430]

Big Thanks Terry

[@lavonmcneal939]

Hey great western.Thanks

[@lottiestanley7696]

Hadn't thought about this in AGES! Thanks!

[@Edivaldo724]

Strother Martin and John Doucette. Starred many westerns! Harry Shannon as the killer!

[@danahenry7430]

Thanks for posting these great old shows, Bob. My dad bought us one of the early tv sets and I remember most of the westerns you post. The intros and familiar faces are hard to forget. Now I'm old and watching the same 'cowboys' It's fun. Thanks, Pard.

[@westernsontheweb]

Thank you so much for watching.

[@grizzlycountry1030]

Rich?

[@mohammedcohen]

...I'm 72 almost 73...also usted'ta watch all the TV Westerns with my dad in the 50s & 60s...

[@kingforaday8725]

Another old guy here that watched westerns with his dad. His favorite cowboys were Audie Murphy, Glenn Ford, followed by James Stewart and of course John Wayne. I dont remember any of these Forsaken Westerns even though I was around back then. Cimarron City was one of my favorite.

[@lisatwitchell403]

Haven't seen this plot of a real incident used in any television movie. It's a better place than we normally see from people writing fiction.

[@michaelfuller2378]

Excellent show!

[@stephensmalldridge9504]

The shame is This would of been a great series, being true stories from the files of the Texas Rangers Seems Hollywood to often passed on great stuff in favor of far less Quality

[@frederickwise5238]

This was also the opening format they used for Rod Cameron's TV series "State Trooper".

[@janetholloway2588]

That was good!!

[@LindaKrpec]

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing!

[@atreb56]

Too bad it wasn't picked up as it was a Four Star production. Nice to see all of the actors especially Strother Martin and an early role for Paul Burke. Thanks for this.

[@chazjanousek9795]

Interesting gun for sure. At 17:00 to 17:25 you can see writing in the background on a big rock.

[@KNT.63]

I already know this is a good one glad I found it again thanks again Bob

[@anthonyarteaamericanartea9364]

Kick ass channel totally subbed love these ole stories picture shows 😉

[@davethom73]

Love the way the Ranger and his team had no saddle bag, bed rolls, or water when they left town to track the baddies.

[@walterwheeler5465]

A very good western with Dennis Morgan and a very good supporting cast. In title only, this was somewhat of a transfer from the radio series, "Tales of the Texas Rangers" with Joel McCrea. However, instead of one on-going main character as in the radio series, the proposed new series was to have new leads every week. This could have been a high quality series if the following shows had been of this high caliber.

[@actionsub]

Nope. "Tales of the Texas Rangers" became a separate TV series that same year. Speaking of Joel McCrea, he faced the same problem when he and Walter Mirisch tried to adapt the movie "Wichita" about Wyatt Earp's tenure there to TV. Since Hugh O'Brian did such a great job as Wyatt Earp on ABC, the networks didn't want another series about Wyatt Earp. They were forced to change the names from Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson to Mike Dunbar and Ben Matheson, the series "Wichita Town" finally hit TV in 1959, and it died the death of being too similar to four or five shows with the same format.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

Harry shannon really is and old desert fox think he's been in every production at least once.was in the lone ranger a bunch.

[@claudalfred2064]

Goodstuf

[@KowboyUSA]

Ol' Strother Martin's face sure been on a lot of films and TV shows.

[@janeramsey970]

John wayne

[@randquadrozzi1280]

And he is always entertaining.

[@KowboyUSA]

@@randquadrozzi1280 Just finished watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and there he was again - Strother Martin.

[@randquadrozzi1280]

@@KowboyUSA he was great in that role.just watched him in gunsmoke forcing festus to be a pack mule threw the desert. he also had a pet rattlesnake doesn't get much better than them 2 fine actors.

[@KowboyUSA]

@@randquadrozzi1280 They sure were. The best.

[@cpvn889]

Firing at 'the old fox ...'

[@VIRGONOMICS]

You know it’s gonna be a strange one when you hear Strother Martin say, ‘Lookin’ For Something Mister ? “

[@atreb56]

RIP Strother Martin. My favorite character actor.

[@CLCinflorida]

The Executives missed out on picking up this treasure... This would have been a superb TV Series...

[@tomswinburn1778]

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. This show wasn't that well done. But look at Gunsmoke. The longer it was on the better it got. I'm with you in thinking the execs missed the wagon on this one. I can see it surpassing Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel. For me to say that is almost sacrilege. But looking at the history of TV series few started out great. Some got that way after a few episodes with lessons learned. I firmly believe this would have been one of those.

[@walterholmes1884]

@@tomswinburn1778 p

[@actionsub]

I'm guessing the development of "Tales of the Texas Rangers" by Screen Gems for CBS, based on the radio show that was also done with Rangers cooperation, canceled this out.

[@Vps-eb7ej]

I agree!

[@randyhome1544]

Howdy

[@CaptainNavman]

I would love to see more episodes

[@mariocabral3120]

Ange Kenos 9th

[@redtra236]

4:15 Lol I think this is the same set used in Gunsmoke? Looks like the stairs up to Doc's office.

[@389383]

Paul Burke before he became a star with Naked City.

[@billescobedo789]

I remember as a kid seeing

[@billescobedo789]

I remember a Texas Rangers tv show where the theme song was The Eyes of Texas are upon you. John Doucette was in that show as i recall. Anyone remember that? The Rangers would be walking together towards the camera.

[@stephenater9687]

I recall "Tales of the Texas Rangers" with Harry Lauter and Willlard Parker. Is that the one?

[@waynechambers5138]

26 men

[@actionsub]

@@stephenater9687 That's the one.

[@nehpetsrellek2750]

Struthers Martin, this is what I call a failure to communicate.

[@oldgamerchick]

Very good show 🙃☕❤❤❤❤🤠

[@zen-Tii]

He sure ain’t no Hobie Gilman.

[@Baskerville22]

Can't mistake Strother Martin's voice

[@Brucev7]

Martin and Slim Pickens

[@atreb56]

Strother Martin was my favorite character actor.

[@pardieupopper339]

Good to see John Doucette, who seemed to be in every Western. And is it just me, or did that town look like Gunsmoke's Dodge City?

[@Boogaboioringale]

John Doucette, an occasional bad guy on the Superman TV series.

[@davidcouch6514]

I think he impersonated Superman once lol.

[@RrR34025]

great TRUE STORY dramatization

[@thiabrabson2533]

Good pace.

[@marcybrooks3425]

Wasn't there a show about the Texas Rangers? Or I guess I could have seen this one and it impressed me strongly.

[@candyflair7946]

👍

[@mickey1849]

Bob, you sure you got this one right? IMDB has it as Season 1 Episode 25 of an anthology series known as "Stage 7". I couldn't find anything mentioning it as a 'tv pilot.' "Fox Hunt" was the 25th and final episode of Season 1, and first aired on September 25, 1955. Stage 7 ran for two years: January 30, 1955 to September 17, 1956. However, there are only three episodes listed which ran for Season 2; all three of which aired in September 1956. /// Well now after watching the introduction I can see where this was the pilot for a potential new series. Dennis Morgan comes on and gives the whole spiel about the Texas Rangers. Nothing was wasted in those days. Pilots that never aired as pilots or were rejected outright might show up later in the same series as just another episode, or maybe used as filler by someone else. The original Star Trek pilot ended up as a two-part episode in the Star Trek series. So either this show was meant to be spun out of the 'Stage 7' anthology as its own series or it was sold to Stage 7 and they made it one of their episodes. /// I also noticed John Doucette is in this. I get a hoot everytime I see him because I remember him in an episode of "Tombstone Territory" where he plays Geronimo--yes, GERONIMO--the chief of the Indians. I still laugh everytime I think about John Doucette wearing a wig and playing Geronimo.😂

[@claudiorobertosantos6984]

Muito bom

[@terryclouse6390]

to bad this would have been a great TV western

[@pearldiver1006]

Trxas became a Republic in 1836 not 1835

[@margepittman7381]

Golden state. Warriors

[@AladdinSaneNYC]

Dennis Morgan? By the time he did this Warner Brothers was done with him. He was no longer the boy next door. ♐

[@lupemontelongo5693]

That was just to easy to fool any bandoleros, need more action on it.

[@tinsoldier5621]

Going on a posse but no saddlebags and not one bedroll. And no extra ammo. Hope an angry ground squirel doesn't take them all out.

[@WOLFROY47]

these days if a series lasts more than three seasons, it's a miracle. and it's not because their crap. the producers, are more concerned with profit, than providing entertainment. they say, there aren't enough subscribers, and they chop and change like a fart in a high wind. why don't they just fork out for better material in the first place, instead of leaving it to others to produce what they consider second rate programs, but they air them anyway, because they can buy them on the cheap. it's hardly encouragement to people to do better, or bother at all

[@AH-yu2pi]

🤠👍🏿

[@robertbutler8004]

Correction not exactly how it happened but exactly how it was told there is a huge difference between the two.

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

Too much competition for all these programs. Not enough channels and time slots. Even the good ones couldn't compete with Lone Ranger, Wyatt Earp and the others.

[@jefftrag1956]

Wasn't that silver inlaid rifle stock in another movie or show?

[@WOLFROY47]

they call it a party how about that for irony

[@KNT.63]

I saw every one of the actors in that show guess they just had too many shows to pick from no reason that won't make it kind of like the lottery or something like that I thought those2 up in the hills were Fox d sons,I guess not

[@jefftrag1956]

Is this the only one made?

[@westernsontheweb]

Yes this was the pilot and for some reason never got picked up by a network. Perhaps they could not find a sponsor.

[@alexbarber3832]

What song is the credits

[@strattuner]

this show would've climaxed even GUNSMOKE,everybody loves the truth,its more interesting than speculation,with STROTHER in it,yeah this is what real westerns are supposed to portray,i wonder what idiot had the last say on cancelling this portrayal of the truth,go figure

[@actionsub]

Probably the same idiot who greenlit "Tales of the Texas Rangers" instead. That show also hit TV in 1955; likewise it was based on true Texas Ranger case files. Since advertisers were the ones who made the call on whether a pilot would go to production or not, I imagine it was "well we've got two shows here with the same concept, we can only pick one".

[@atreb56]

Love Strother Martin. 💘

[@strattuner]

@@atreb56 the man was a genius at acting,he plays a derranged person real good,like in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE,GENIUS and he's played opposite many super actors,made them all look good

[@atreb56]

@@strattuner My friend used to talk with Strother when my friend was a child. Quite the character!

[@strattuner]

@@atreb56 OH WOW

[@mohammedcohen]

....Strother Martin's voice is a dead giveaway...no evidence of a 'failure to communicate' here...

[@cliffordburdick6049]

they had ketchup in glass bottles in 1887?

[@brumbybailey6599]

Cool, but not much meat to the story.

[@maxrockwell7613]

ZZZZZZzzzzzz

[@SHADOWMAN296]

this pilot failed due to bad acting james arness, joel mccray or allen ladd would have made it a big success!

[@Vps-eb7ej]

It's strange but I think you're right, even though I like the lead actor in general, I felt from the get-go he was miscast. Good call.

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[@ranjitrichardson4848]

Nothing are more missleading than this , its a joke taking about true story that never happened its time to get Real, its Garbage Garbage Garbage