Thanks Rob for the back story on aWow.

I met Hugh O'Brian years ago he was at a cowboy festival in Palmdale California years ago I got to talk to him for a long time it was well over an hour we talked about the shows and I was a big fan of his I helped him load up his car cuz at that point he was having a hard time walking he had a cane but I helped him and his beautiful wife he has since passed on but what a wonderful man in the stories that he told me I will take with me till the end of my days wonderful

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Nice, Billy. Thanks for sharing.

@tombankwel4822

8 ай бұрын

Great interview with a great actor, Hugh obrian, he Was realy wyat earp, so good in the shotist with duke Wayne, thanks lord Rob Word of Word on Westerns laird of Word manor happy trails to you lord Rob Word from tom your friend always

@gabbyspinal1560

5 ай бұрын

​@@AWordonWesternsl watching his movie now 😢 Oh he just passed away.i thought he die long time ago.thank you for sharing this us.

Happy 10th AWOW!

Thanks Rob for your tremendous contribution to this wonderful genre.

We didn't get a television until 1956 but I remember watching this show.

I know that your @A Word on Westerns is a massive undertaking; the trope about herding cats comes to mind. But my word (no pun intended) what a wonderful life full of fun, fellowship and deeply moving histories.

It’s great that his fondest memories are of him SERVING his nation and knowing that “his” men were properly trained. Godspeed Sir.

That was awesome Rob thank you

From humble beginnings big things grow. Great to see Mr obrien talk about his time as Wyatt and the opening episode with a young Denver pyle

Rob, greatvideo and the carrying on of getting all of these people together to spend time to visit and telling stories of the great westerns and all of the great people who made it possible.

Thank you for keeping the memories alive. Western movies and tv shows are still interesting and relevant to watch.

I was an 8 month old baby when this first Wyatt Earp aired. This is the first time I've ever seen it. Thank you, Rob for sharing this. Keep ridin', Cowboy!

Thanks as always for preserving history, Rob.

Thanks Rob! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing!

Gunsmoke premiered between Wyatt Earp and Cheyenne (September 10, 1955).

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Yep. CHEYENNE on Sep 20, 1955. A terrific month for TV fans!

DENVER PYLE! THE MOST VERSATILE OF ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These shows are so awesome. Glad to know I am not alone in wanting to hear these stories and the history.

81 years young here - and I actually remembered the words to the song for Wyatt Earp :) Thanks again Rob for bringing a smile to my face!

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

We all were singing it constantly during the shoot in Tombstone.

@kathydixon3716

6 ай бұрын

I am 71 and I still know the words too lol.

@kathydixon3716

6 ай бұрын

Rob, I am watching this episode again. I was thinking, maybe you could wave your magic wand, and bring back the whole series. You have a devoted watcher here.

I remember the effect Hugh O'Brian had on my mom and sisters when he was on the screen, ha ha. Incredibly handsome man.

Amazing history. Hugh O'Brian. Miss him much!

I grew up around Dodge City. Wyatt was and is our hero! No one brought him to the screen better than Hugh, no one! Thanks rob

Awesome, thanks Rob for doing what you do & you do it good! T.C.B.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, eric.

Thanks for another great presentation Rob. It was an added treat to see the first episode of the Wyatt Earp tv show. All us kids tried to memorize all the words to the famous Wyatt Earp ballad but I never quite managed that feat. It was a kick to see Denver Pyle, but it was also nice to see some other familiar faces like Dabbs Greer & Arthur Space. Thanks again amigo.

Thanks for preserving the love of westerns and including the 1st episode of Wyatt Earp.

A week after graduating high school I entered the Marine Corps on June 3, 1981. Semper Fi, Hugh, R.I.P. Rob, thanks for video, and isn’t it great how many people have subscribed to AWOW?

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Yes. Thanks, greg.

Hugh and I were acquaintances. I wrote an article about him for Guns of The Old West magazine, and we had side by side tables for a few years at the annual SASS Convention in Las Vegas. in the early 2000s. He was quite a character. He could be incredibly charming, and he could also be incredibly rude. And his wife, Virginia was a real sweet person. Thanks for doing this video.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Yes, he certainly was quite the character. Thanks for sharing, duel.

Thanks for sharing Hugh's early interview and the origin of A Word on Westerns. Don't ever stop.

Once again another terrific episode Mr.Word. You never disappoint, Plenty of fantastic information about Hugh O'BRIEN. Most intriguing was his information about starting the Marines call "HuRah". Bless him and my he RIP. Thanks again Rob and Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Many thanks, Rob, RJ and Team AWOW, for another interesting program. I grew up on 1950s and 1960s TV Westerns, and the Wyatt Earp series was quite memorable. O'Brian was very good in the role. Many thanks again for another important oral history, best of health and have a wonderful Thanksgiving. 🦃🐎🦃🐎🦃

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, Arline. You have a good one too.

@arlineabdalian6594

8 ай бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns 🦃🐎🦃🐎🦃🐎🦃

Thanks for going to your vault of irreplaceable & precious memories. Great episode Rob and have a Happy Thanksgiving my friend.🦃🐎🦃🐎🦃

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, Joe. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, too.

@waynewilson2365

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Rob for the opportunity to view the very first episode of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. I've watched many episodes of this series but I have never seen the first episode. This just goes to show the absolute best westerns were in the 1950's. Keep these great shows alive and Happy Thanksgiving to all western fans.

"The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" was great television entertainment but leaned 100% into the legend rather than the actual less-than-pristine life of the real Wyatt Earp. I was halfway expecting Hugh O'Brian to be shown drinking milk in the saloon!

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

It's interesting that Stuart Lake, the author of the definitive biography of Earp, "Frontier Marshal," was a consultant for the series. Amazing! Yep the 1950s was a pretty sanitized time for westerns. I do love that era, though.

Hugh O'Brian, the fastest gun in Hollywood. He was truly gun slick.

@atreb56

8 ай бұрын

Ben Cooper was fast but wasn't a star, so there was less recognition of his talent.

Arthur Gardner didn't do The High Chaparral. He worked on The Big Valley (which like The Rifleman was a Levy-Gardner-Laven production for Four Star).

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, pryce. I don't know why or how I could have made that mistake. Of course, I don't use a telepromter and just have the idea of what I need to say before I have the camera roll. We shot my introduction in one take and I guess I always try and add too much information. Arthur was a very dear friend so I'm especially embarassed.

Hugh O'Brien: I became Wyatt Earp. Kurt Russell: Hold my beer. (And it looked like Kurt saw that scene of Wyatt buffaloing McLaruy. "Go on, skin that smokewagon.") But no, seriously, I loved that show as a kid growing up. I even once had a toy Buntline Special. I still remember the theme!

Great production Rob. That series is still one of my favorites.

Good looking man. Great actor !

What a wonderful tribute, Rob. We loved Hugh O’Brien and all sang the Wyatt Earp theme song but unfortunately we got the Hollywood version that skipped most of his real history. Same thing happened when we watched Gene Barry’s version of BatMasterson who Never worse a Derby hat…it was a Bowler Semper Fi 🇺🇸 and how about the Gail Davis and Gene affair? whoa !

@barrygioportmorien1

8 ай бұрын

Interesting about the hat description for Bat Masterson, I don't think too many of we young watchers would ever have known the difference. Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson, were two of my favourite TV series in those years, also Have Gun Will Travel.

Thanks very much for the interview and the TV show. You're a great interviewer.🤠

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, 56. Hugh made it unusually tough for me that day!

Awesome thanks for sharing!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸

Great tribute to a great actor, if I'm not mistaken, Hugh was the last man John Wayne shot in a movie.

Thanks, Rob... took me back to my boy hood. Always tried to watch this show. It's good work that you do... Russ

That was great - thanks, Rob!. Some of my earliest memories are watching Wyatt Earp with my family. The only time my dad (and our whole family) missed watching a western was when there were 2 on at the same time.....Carla H.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Some tough viewing decisions back then.

👍👍👏🇺🇲 Thank you good sir.

Love it Rob, keep them coming.

Rob, enjoyed watching this throwback …I to met Hugh OBrien at a Larry Holmes after fight victory party …he was very approachable we had a few adult beverages together ….

I needed to see the original episode. I'd not seen it before. O'Brian played Earp well.

So wonderful these are great videos!! Outstanding way to save and tell History of Western Actors!!!!!

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, george.

It was great being able to watch that first episode with Mr. O'Brien. I noticed a few familiar faces, so young! I have been watching KZread on my tv now instead of my phone, I just cant figure out how to like on there. I'm definitely not a technical person. So trying to watch AWOW on my phone at the same time. Your show never disapoints!!! 🤠 👍👍

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, Karen. We’ve learned that over 50% of our viewers now watch AWOW on their TV. We try to make our shows network quality.

I LOVE THAT TV SHOW

Someone out there probably knows the backstory but the first Wyatt Earp episode to use an instrumental background score (in this case, Capitol Records' Hi-Q Library) rather than vocals by the Ken Darby Singers was "Remittance Man" from early in the fourth season, a move that I think gave the show more action and more appeal. (This format would remain until the end of the run in 1961.)

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

I agree, Pryce. Although I think the Ken Darby Singers added a unique quality for the series. The producer's also did similar backkground harmonies for their other series, JIM BOWIE.

@prycerobertson4695

8 ай бұрын

Yes, but I’ll only watch the later Earp and Bowie shows with the instrumental background score. The same is true of The Californians (which along with Earp and Bowie was overseen by Lou Edelman), except it used library music (Capitol’s library like the other shows) for its entire two-year run. The only exceptions were the pilot and the series’ third episode, “The Noose”.

Thank you. I enjoyed getting to see the first episode.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, jerrilyn. Thanks.

As Clayton Moore will always be "THE LONE RANGER", HUGH O'BRIAN will always be "WYATT EARP!" If Hugh could only see what the revisionist historians are saying about the real Wyatt Earp, HE would give them what for. I believe Stuart N. Lake and Bat Masterson, not the Revisionists. Wyatt was the Best lawman in the West and Hugh O'Brian played him to a tee! Thanks for this memory, Rob!

Wow. I remember watching. But we didn’t get a tv until I was 12, which would have been 1956. So I missed all the first shows. 😳

Enjoyed again, Rob, Thanks for sharing

I love Western movies

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Me, too, jerry!

Hey, that was great!!

This combo was great!!! Thank you so much I enjoyed the interview and the TV series.

@AWordonWesterns

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Another Hero gone too soon. But alive and well in reruns, and AWOW's Archives. 👍👍 5🌟 I remember in the late 50's, that a Kellogs Cereal box had the Wyatt Earp's Buntline as a cut out, rubber band shooter. 🤗

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Very cool, OD. Thanks.

Rob, that was a great show today. That was a great western back in the day. Thank you! Have you ever considered having Rex Holman on your show? According to Wikipedia he is still alive at 88. If he could be interviewed live or via Zoom, he would make a great guest. He was the bad guy in so many westerns and sometimes a good guy.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Rex Holman is a fantastic suggestion, daryl. Does anyone out there have a contact for him? I'll try and track him down. Thanks.

Thank you for the interview and the first episode. I've only ever read about Hugh O'Brian in books about other actors or on western shows, so I'm not really familiar with his life. He was apparently a fairly tough fellow, who occasionally rubbed others the wrong way. I would love to know if the story I've read, in several different places, of his interaction with Audie Murphy is correct and true.

Thanks for the first episode Rob as I've never seen it (no tv network here in Australia puts the old classics on considering each network has at least 4 digital free to air channels per station) however after watching this I looked up the show on KZread & found a channel with 108 episodes so guess what I'll be downloading to watch soon.🤠

Good stuff as usual.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, phil. Thanks.

Thanks as always for this video. I love seeing all the familiar faces in the audience.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Us too! Thanks, matt.

*Besides being a great actor...few people know that Hugh O'Brian began a leadership program for high school students with his HOBY (Hugh O'Brian Youth) program. He was inspired after a meeting in Africa in the 1950's with Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner. O'Brian was determined to do something positive for young people after his 9-day visit. So began HOBY. It started with just 26 student ambassadors in 1958 and now has eclipsed the half-million mark in 7,200 high schools! O'Brian died in 2016. No other Hollywood actor has ever accomplished as much for American society!*

brilliant .

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, chris.

Course Gunsmoke premiered on radio first, in April 1952. Which, far as I know never tried to appeal to kids. Sponsored by L&M and Chesterfield ciggies, (not Sugar Pops or Remco Toys), there was never any mistaking the audience they were aiming at. Now I guess with the current gun phobia that exists it would be impossible to target a TV Western for kids, so Roy and Dale, Gene, Guy and Hoppy would find it tougher to make a living these days. Which is the culture's loss, cuz the underlying themes, messages and values promoted by those old shows were nothing but positive for the kids of that time. Far better than the shows and video games that entertain kids and are apparently fine with their parents today I think.

Rob, for future reference, the Marine yell is "OORAH!' The Army yell is HOOAH!" The Navy yell is "HOOYAH!" We in the Air Force simply speak English.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Ha! Thanks.

It was great to see Rob interview Hugh O'Brien. I was a big fan of the "Wyatt Earp" television show and became a fan of Hugh O'Brien. He had an appeal about that was irresistible. 👍👍👍 The television episode was a bit spotty, but I have the first two seasons on DVD, and would like to get the rest of the series. I may watch them again now that you have whetted my appetite for them. I also looked for Hugh O'Brien in other movies and shows. He played an agent in one of the spy shows of the 1960s, but I can't recall the title. I think one of the reasons that I was disappointed in "The Shootist" was that Hugh O'Brien was cast as a villain, which I had trouble believing. I did enjoy his appearance in "Twins" as the father of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character. That I could believe. 😊😊😂

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks, Wm. I'll bet the spy show you mention was SEARCH with Hugh, Doug McClure and Tony Franciosa rotating episodes.

@williambilyeu9801

8 ай бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns I seem to remember Doug McClure too, and was it Sebastian Cabot as the supervisor of the group?

@hollywoodmediaprofessional3282

7 ай бұрын

@@williambilyeu9801 Checkmate

WORD ON WESTERNS the very origins, spun-off from the Golden Boot Awards and Rob was right there, documenting it all! Hugh O'Brian took to the role of Wyatt Earp exactly like Clayton Moore did to the Lone Ranger... they both lived the part, only of course Earp was a real person that became legendary thanks to a wrestling promoter and writer called Stuart N. Lake, who in 1931, two years after Earp's death published his highly fabricated "biography". The marshal was not much of a legend whilst he was alive and was never as pure and noble as the books, movies and TV show depicted. Of course, the truth always bursts our balloons on so many heroes, and it's been HOLLYWOOD's job to give us such heroes when real true heroes are not exciting enough to entertain and inspire us. If only the real Wyatt Earp could've seen Hugh O'Brian's depiction of him, Stuart N. Lake was still around and he consulted on the TV show. So many great character actors appeared with O'Brian, and whilst he had to play it straight, it was the likes of Doug Fowley, Trevor Bardette and Paul Brinegar who had all the best parts and who really stood out for me. But getting to the Golden Boots or more importantly, the get togethers of Rob Word's tapings at the Autry Museum, I think that's what the real legacy is for the western's we grew up with, the fact that we get to see and hear from the very actors we loved and continue to love watching. Rob's bringing them all to together, listening to their stories and letting us all in on it... The awards and the tapings helped greatly in keeping that unique western alumni of old-timers alive, as no other HOLLYWOOD genre or group of actors in film noir, musicals, comedies, sci-fi you name it, no other old actors famous for those roles has a group of their own to get together with. The movie business which I too was a part of, as an industry provides great benefits, but it can be very cruel to it's actors whether big names or small, when it comes to showing appreciation for their lifetime of service. Only us fans and people like Rob Word are so glad to see them each week... Like the iconic line in THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE... "This is the West Sir, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend." Well, Rob gives us both, the facts straight from his guest's mouth, and he gives us the legend -WOW!

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind and generous comments, graham. I'll say "Wow," too.

@grahamhill6340

8 ай бұрын

Like I've said before Rob, TCM really shot themselves in the foot bigtime not signing you up... if they can make ex-bartender and author Eddie Mueller their FILM NOIR guru, just think what they could've got with you, a whole lot more than just WESTERNS that's for sure! Unfortunately, as we both know westerns are not very PC in today's WOKEen-down HOLLYWOOD... I tried to get them interested in a TCM Western Festival at Tucson's famous White Stallion Ranch where THE HIGH CHAPARRAL and WINCHESTER 73' were shot, even got a meeting... but upon presenting my idea, they looked at me toitally stunned like the citizens of Rock Ridge when the "new sheriff" rides into town in BLAZZING SADDLES!@@AWordonWesterns

I saw a glimpse of richard anderson (of six million dollar man/bionic woman fame and a bunch of tv and cinema western) on one of the photos and i'm wondering Rob is there material with him. An interview on his westerns i didn't found one and i'm big fan of the man.

@AWordonWesterns

7 ай бұрын

Richard was a friend, jo, but we never got him on the show before he died in 2017. Sure wish we had!

In the last picture of the video, after the Wyatt Earp episode, who are the gentlemen on either side of Rob and Hugh? The one on the right looks very familiar but I'm not recognizing the one on the left, perhaps because of the picture over half of his face.

@AWordonWesterns

8 ай бұрын

That's Martin Kove (COBRA KAI) on my right, MsB, and Alex Hyde-White in the derby.

@MsBamafanatic

8 ай бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns Thank you! Martin could play some really mean characters. And now that I have his name, I have connected Alex to where I most remember him...Pretty Woman. That will keep me from wondering. ♥♥♥

Buntline fiction. Wheres the mustache?????!!!!!

When do we get the episode about Jock Mahoney sexually abusing his step daughter Sally Field...