An interesting bit of trivia about Mr. O'Brien is that he was the youngest drill seargent that ever served in the marines.

Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed it. I loved Hugh O'Brian and had the honour of interviewing him once. Great series, great man Hugh, well respected for his charity work. Thanks again. I am Canadian but the US and Canada sorely needs more of the moral leadership that Hugh O'Brian and his outstanding body of film work and TV series provided in conjunction with his charity.

@AWordonWesterns

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, David. Thanks.

Hugh O’Brian was the perfect Watt Earp. I watched every episode and the theme song is forever etched in my brain. The series pops up now and then on various networks that carry the classic westerns and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is in my collection VHS tapes that I’ve recorded long ago. Every now and then I bring it out to enjoy the episodes and the period commercials. Thank you for the look behind the scenes of your colorization and Wyatt’s return to Tombstone. As an aside, while I was stationed in California, we made the trip to visit Tombstone, Ft Bowie and other places in that area. This was in the early 1980s. We took the long hike to Ft. Bowie with camera (back in the rolls of film days) slung around my neck. There were places in the camera strap to carry rolls of film. Somewhere along the way, all of the film I used at Tombstone were lost along that long walk. All I came home with was the roll of film in the camera containing some pics at Ft. Bowie. I do have a heavy Crystal Palace glass and a few other things, but all the photos were lost.....but I digress. Thank you, Rob for another home run in your compelling Sunday morning videos. You cover the shows that I grew up with and I just love it. Never stop, Rob, they are just so wonderful.

I saw High O’Brien at a Broadway theatre in the 1980’s and got to tell him I was a fan. No one else seemed to recognize him.

This is fun to watch and remember. Loved the barbershop style harmonizing on the original Wyatt Earp.

Thanks Rob for this wonderful presentation along with Johnny Cash singing the theme song , brings tears to my eyes !!

I remember as a very young man( let's face It was a kid) Hugh O'brian visited London and came to our youth club and showed off his Buntline Special ,its funny how these memories are brought back watching your film always looked forward to watching the TV series,thanks from UK.

Thanks again, Rob ! another great episode … keep 'em coming

That’s sad. I loved Hugh O’Brien & loved him in the series Search as well. I enjoyed Return To Tombstone too & when I went to Germany in 1962 when I was 10, they were running Wyatt Earp dubbed in German but since I watched every episode I knew exactly what was happening. My Father is buried in the Hills of Eternity cemetery in Colma, Ca. where Wyatt Earp is buried. Like Hugh, he was a veteran who was in the US Army for 17 years & served in Manila, at Pearl Harbor, & the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, D Day, across Europe, the Bulge, German occupation in Bavaria where he met & married my Mother, Korea & was recalled to active duty during the Cuban Missle Crisis at the Pentagon where we were 15 minutes away from nuclear war with the Russians. RIP Hugh, Wyatt & my father.

@AWordonWesterns

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, George

I wasn't aware the show predated GUNSMOKE by a couple of nights. I'd always been told the latter was the first adult western and that Cheyenne (my perosnal favorite) was the first hour long adult western. I was only eight months old when Wyatt Earp aired, but by the time I was three I was watching it with my parents and siblings. My father created a simple game to entertain us that consisted of Dad playing popular TV themes on his harmonica while we tried to guess the title. I still remember singing "Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp, brave courageous, and bold. Long live his name and long live his glory, and long may his story be told" as Dad played the harmonica. Thanks for the memories, Rob; it looks like everyone had great fun making the retrospective movie. Have 25 years passed since then, and 64 years since the show was created? So many absent friends and familiar face.

@wildbillharding

2 жыл бұрын

Cheyenne was my favourite, too, along with Rawhide and The Dakotas, which is now forgotten.

@Paladin1873

2 жыл бұрын

@@wildbillharding I never got to watch The Dakotas, but I see it is available on DVD. It looks like an early and more serious version of Laredo. Was it based on the real Three Guardsmen who cleaned up Oklahoma?

@wildbillharding

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paladin1873 Like Rawhide, The Dakotas is grittier than most of the other TV oaters. It has the superb Jack Elam as the deputy who'll take on anyone and anything, any time. Elam is simply outstanding. I've been a hopeless Western and TV Western addict since the late '50s and can say without hesitation that Jack is the toughest hombre on the right side of the law in any of the scores, if not hundreds of series I've watched. The three other leads, Larry Ward, Michael Greene and Chad Everett are less impressive and most of the episodes are a little too tied to the Warner's backlot, which is a shame. Despite those drawbacks it's a series that should have run and run. What finished it was the episode called Sanctuary at Crystal Springs, which involved a shoot-out in a church. There was a viewer backlash and the studio caved in. I don't know of a link to the Three Guardsmen, who I will look into, but I do know The Dakotas was spun off from a Cheyenne episode. Massive fan as I am, I've yet to pin down the pilot episode. I'll take the 20 Dakotas episodes over all the hundreds of fake Gunsmokes and Bonanzas any day of the week and twice on Sundays. The Arness Dodge City and the Ponderosa have as much to do with the west as Toy Story. Little Joe Cartwright in his immaculate crimplene trews; Hoss taking on a bunch of - no kidding - LEPRECHAUNS! Spare us!

Thanks Rob on the wonderful remembrances of one of my favorite tv cowboys growing up, Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp. Makes me feel even older seeing how many of those great western actors are no longer with us.

@toinimoore3463

4 жыл бұрын

So many of the actors wound up broke wish they had his business sense could have saved them,way things go who knows half of these $20,000,000 people might wind up broke because they didn’t have any business sense !!

What a pleasant flashback to a great movie about one of my favorite western characters "Wyatt Earp". Another Sunday morning pleasure! Thanks, Rob.

The original series was a "must watch" in the home I grew up in - Dad and all 3 kids glued to the 17 inch screen! Thanks for the memories!

I started to watch "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" somewhat reluctantly because I didn't think it would be as good as "Tombstone". Was I wrong! Hugh O'Brien was marvelous, the actors were great and the writing was the best. The final episodes......words fall short. It matched the magic of "Tombstone" and then some. Thank you for your work in preserving the Western. I mean this sincerely, you've done a great thing. Now I've got to go find this, in VCR, DVD, or in any format I can.

That's a lovely film Rob, thank you!

I AM WATCHING WYATT EARP, AS I AM WRITING THIS. I LOVE HUGH O BRIAN IN THIS WESTERN. HE WAS EXCELLENT AS WYATT EARP. THANKS TO GRIP TV FOR RUNNING THIS GREAT WESTERN AND ALL THE WONDERFUL OLD CLASSIC WESTERNS. LOVED HUGH O BRIAN.

Great show! I always liked, Palladin and lawman

Damn! I want to see it now!

What I love about all these old Westerns was the great story telling. The tales they told are about human nature and society that are still relevant today. Seeing these actors dressed in the western garb also makes them seem less dated for the time period when they were filmed. I just started watching The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp in the old reruns and this was very well done. O'Brian`s portrayal is very endearing and inspiring.

@wildbillharding

2 жыл бұрын

I believe I'm right in saying that The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp was unique in that the episodes tally chronologically with the {approximate) real story of Tombstone and the other towns Earp worked in/manipulated.

This was fun to watch. Thanks.

Thanks Rob i miss westerns on television . With you tube and dvds keeping them alive . And now video games. Maybe a comeback is in sight.

This awoke fond memories, thanks so much.

wow am blown away! thankyou.hugh o brien was such a fit bloke i believe he was a marine boxing champ.i seem to remember one of his first jobs was kind of fight arranger technical expert on sands of iwa jima! its no surprise he was cast as the perfect man arnie swatszeneggers surrogate dad in twins!

It took ‘The Duke’ to take out Hugh O’Brian. Fitting.

These shows still play every morning on grit TV along with Laramie.

@cynthiadrott-puett1762

3 жыл бұрын

N lancer on spectrum ch.720 n 164

Great video. I love that show.

Really great. Thank you.

@AWordonWesterns

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, dks

GRIT TV, THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES.

Hugh said it well..."back when men were men, and women were...glad!!"

Mr. Cox was too busy painting "Return To Tombstone," to hear his cue.

@AWordonWesterns

5 жыл бұрын

It was hysterical. He was standing next to me outside, looking through the window!

Love the black and white series. Nr 1!!! Together with Lawman (John Russell) And nr 3..Wanted dead or alive (S.mcQueen)

I 'm upset as I didn't get to see this movie!!

@AWordonWesterns

Жыл бұрын

Hi, Pat. Don't be upset....here's the link. Enjoy! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKqjpJWwZtG-csY.html

FYI=Hugh O'Brien was an original"red-head"(Irish too the bone).

Pretty timely as I'm watching THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WYATT EARP series on Roku. I was just a baby when it first aired and this is my first opportunity to watch it from the beginning. Am I wrong or is this one of the first television programs that told a continuing story line? I understand now why maybe it was never in syndication, as stations couldn't jumble the episodes.

@AWordonWesterns

5 жыл бұрын

It was syndicated in the mid 1960s but stations were looking for color product and it languished until recently. Now it's been licensed to several channels.

The Duke said he met wyatt earp

Oh I love Hugh Obrien on Wyatt Earp. It on our station Monday morning M-F. What a joy. I love hearing Hugh. How do we find it please.

@AWordonWesterns

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but the movie came out prior to DVDs. Check eBay or other sites for VHS and Laser Disc copies.

@sherrihinton8567

5 жыл бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns Thank you so much

great job...HUGH was from my hometown of ROCHESTER N.Y!

@AWordonWesterns

5 жыл бұрын

So is Robert Forster! His birthday is this Saturday, so I'm posting Sunday's AWOW with him a day early this week.

@joebloggs4754

5 жыл бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns yrs he is,,,,,i went to high school with a guy{his sister did commercials for furniture store},,SHE was married to Robert...i heard alot of stories,,Forester was really good friends with STEVE McQUEEN,,,,,my buddy partied with them...looking back its funny..FOSTER BROOKS and MITCH MILLER from here too among others

Mr.word looks like hugh o'brian.

Does anyone know where I can see those color episodes? Or are those just colorized flashbacks?

@AWordonWesterns

3 жыл бұрын

Only the flashbacks were colorized.

Did this movie make it to VHS or DVD I would enjoy watching it

@jameskitson6648

5 жыл бұрын

Yes made it vhs

@AWordonWesterns

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but it came out prior to DVDs. Check eBay or other sites for VHS and Laser Disc copies.

@maxbaker8830

5 жыл бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns I will thank you

I'm sure I watched the movie, but I don't recall it. Didn't Hugh and others reprise their famous western roles on another series, maybe Guns of Paradise? Maybe I'm getting it all messed up. It's amazing how successful it all was, considering it was so much fiction (Wyatt's real life versus what most think it to be because of books and TV shows, etc). I'm surprised the movie isn't on youtube; wish it were.

@AWordonWesterns

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, GUNS OF PARADISE season 2, 2-part opener, had Hugh O'Brian, Gene Barry, Johnny Crawford, Robert Fuller and...Jack Elam!

@Orrymain1

4 жыл бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns I thought that was it. Thanks for the confirmation. I haven't watched it in quite some time, but I loved the idea of getting all these guys together. Lee Majors would do that with the cowboys on The Fall Guy. Those were always so fun and nostalgic to watch.

How can I see this movie???? This is an important question!!

@AWordonWesterns

3 жыл бұрын

Fans have said they’ve seen used VHS and Laserdisc copies for sale on different internet sites. It came out before there were DVDs.

As a young boy I was a huge fan of the TV series “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp” starring Hugh O’Brian. Little did I know or care that this popular series was primarily legend and had little to do with reality. It was made to entertain kids and in that it definitely succeeded. When as an adult I saw actual photos of Wyatt Earp and learned of his life and time as a lawman, I realized that the actor O’Brian didn’t look at all like Wyatt Earp and the series was fictional and just made to entertain.

I'm really looking forward to watching this. However, I would like some advise. I just recently discovered The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and am about midway through season 5. Should I finish the entire series before watching this movie?

@AWordonWesterns

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Paul. The movie is stand alone. Either way you watch will be enjoyable. Glad you discovered the show. I watched Hugh reprise Wyatt over the weekend in a 2-part GUNS OF PARADISE/PARADISE episode on GetTV. He certainly was perfect casting. Also check out our Dirk London/Ray Boyle interview about working on the series and his tribute to Wyatt. Here's the link. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jImZpamdopbJlKQ.html. ENJOY!

@paulburgio8278

3 жыл бұрын

@@AWordonWesterns thank you for the quick response. I guess what I was concerned about the most was seeing flashbacks of events in Tombstone that I haven’t seen yet in the series. I wondered if the flashbacks would give away the surprises etc. additionally I am interested in watching anything concerning Hugh O’Brian as Wyatt Earp. Perfect casting indeed!

@AWordonWesterns

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulburgio8278 Ha! If you don't know how the gunfight at the O.K. Corral ends, just hang in there with the series episodes. You'll enjoy our feature either way.

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Where could I get the movie

@AWordonWesterns

9 ай бұрын

On our channel. Here's the link. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKqjpJWwZtG-csY.htmlsi=uPtWmH3INtuyTZ2v. You may also try finding a used Laser Disc or used VHS tape. We made it before DVDs and it was never reissued.

GRIT. Monday-Friday. 7am-9am.

Great program but maybe missing something. Could be I'm just more in favor of one on one interviews with a little more volume.

@jozatexan1964

5 жыл бұрын

p.s. on the one on one interviews ... they are more personal, almost like I'm sitting in a third chair listening to Rob's conversation with his guest.

@AWordonWesterns

5 жыл бұрын

Joza, according the specs, this was the peak volume of this 25 year old video without it being distorted. Hopefully, the new ones are better for you.

I was 10 years old in 1955.

Never thought cash was much of a slinger for me Willie Nelson was the best✌️

I thought Cookie, PB was mayor of Dodge

the actor doesn't look like Wyatt Earp, he was handsome with the big moustache!

They still haven't figured colorization out yet. I'd rather have them just digitize the B & Ws.

We’re losing our western stars at too fast a pace. It also means we’re getting old too.

There were better actors as Wyatt Earp than Hugh was.

@dday9257

5 жыл бұрын

Godzilla So What? That’s your opinion and you know what they say about that right?

Colorized😡👎