Loved watching this. The real Charlie Russell was quite an interesting character. Always loved watching Fess Parker in anything he acted in

@rudolphmohan9623

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Great show. Should have been picked up. We need shows like this today.

So happy to see “forsaken west” again. Could have been a entertaining program.

Weird that no one picked up this episode to air the series those days!? It's really a good episode... 👍

@charlesciminera5881

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I agree very well written and acted there was just a lot of completion for westerns back then it was probably just a numbers game

Very nice story with a lot of charm. Wonderful verbal picture by Parker of the beauty of living outdoors

I loved this, It's been a long time since a "forsaken western" has popped up. Glad to see it, I love this series. This episode would've been a great tv series, in my opinion. Thanks for showing this.

@RabbiSteve

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I agree.

C M Russell was the best, in his younger days he was known as Kid Russell.

CMR is my favorite western artist. I lived in Great Falls Montana, growing up and went to his gallery and home dozens of times. I went back about 15 years ago, sad as now it is all commercial while they sell his art, it's turned into a bazaar type mindset. Try going to giant springs and stop where they built the dam. When Lewis and Clark went through the area, the sound of the great falls was heard miles away. It's about 50 miles to Glacier, but now need a reservation, stop on the other side of the Rockies-St. Ignatius church-some of the most beautiful mural art in any church. Open your eyes and maybe a mama mountain goat sheep with baby will visit with you. Anytime you go out in the wild take a private locator beacon.

That was a nice treat. Thank you

Loved this show, I just wished they had made more. You wonder sometimes how many of these good shows were passed up.

Beverly Garland, always striking, always a strong female character, always watchable.

@Bigbadwhitecracker

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Her terrific but short lived TV series DECOY comes to mind. That was her best role. Only lasted one season.

@mickey1849

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Nice rack, too.

Wow. THAT Charles Russell! One of the greatest western artist/sculptors that ever lived!

Enjoyed that western very much, would’ve liked to of seen more of them. Thank you Bob Terry.

would have been a big fan of this show

Pity this is a one off i would have enjoyed this as a series, loved it as a pilot. Thanks for the privilege to see this

This was a great story, IMHO anyway. I'd have been a dedicated fan of this series IF, it had taken off. Russell and Remington, my two favorite artists.

I love discovering obscure abandoned pilots to potentially great shows💕

I do believe I remember seeing that pilot a couple of decades ago or so. Had similar feel to it as did the short lived radio series the Six Shooter with James Stewart.

Fess Parker was just Sensational 😅 Seen this episode B4 . Very good messages in this TV 📺 Flick

Fantastic bit of History thanks cowboy.🤠

I think they missed the boat on this one. I believe they could make it today and folks would watch it. My dad would have loved this he was a huge western fan. I come by my love of westerns honestly.

Thanks for posting another video , keep them coming

In the 1950s and early 1960s it was popular to highly romanticize and fictionalize real men of the old west. Here in Montana Charlie Russell is well remembered for his art. We have the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls and the largest canvass Russell ever painted, "Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross’ Hole" (12 ft x 25 ft), hanging over the Speaker's platform in the Montana House of Representatives. Rumor has it that the dog or wolf in the foreground was strategically positioned there by Charlie to snarl at the Speaker, a man he purportedly did not like.

@frankrives9964

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The famous "Last of 5,000 (Waiting for a Chinook)" postcard is also on display at the Montana Historical Society, in Helena.

Damn!! I’d of watched this show. Thank you for putting it out to see

Charlie Russell, the artist.

FESS PARKER IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ACTORS EVER SEEN !!!! BUMMER THAT THIS SHOW WASN'T PICKED UP !!!!!

Thanks! Great episode.

Paul Carr has been a supporting player in many stage, film and TV roles on television he has guested in many tv shows both westerns and non westerns he's even had recurring roles on several daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives, General Hospital (twice in two different stints as two different characters), Generations, the Young and the Restless and Jay C. Flippen a veteran of many films and television shows and in later years after losing a leg he still acted very regularly, Beverly Garland best known for films, tv and My Three Sons and the Scarecrow & Mrs. King, other performers in the cast as the stage robbers also regular supporting players in many films and television shows, veterans like James Anderson, Joseph Ruskin, George D. Wallace, Frank Chase and Joseph Breen usually as heavies/bad guys, others in the cast I recognize by face but not by name probably bit players and extras who have been seen in the background of many films and television shows, would have been a great series but only certain westerns were able to make it more than one or two seasons not all westerns could be as successful as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, the Virginian, Wagon Train, the Rifleman, Daniel Boone and others that lasted longer and well the westerns fell by the way side in the mid 70's and the westerns became only occasional on tv at that time I the 70's and 80's and the westerns weren't the same after that and sorry for rambling but I just turned 58 and my memories of the classic days of tv are still alive as long as I can find them on KZread.

I am n love with Russell!❤ too bad they didn’t make a series of this! They were stupid!

I loved that introduction to the adverts.

@karenhill3970

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This was WONDERFUL CANNOT believe networks didn't pick up..idiots ...Chas M RUSSELL..so interesting!!

Bob T Pard' I Recon if there's any comments out there from Fess Parker as to why it didn't go to the rodeo, I do know one thing" I'm sure glad you do what you do' so well Bob 🐌'Thank you Pardner. Oh shoot almost forgot to put my boots back on'🤠

Wished that this was a series back in the day, would like to see it made today as a series or a movie but I don’t believe there is anyone who could do it justice, writers,directors or actors this day and age. I really like old westerns but this one got away.

Great show.

Love the idea of a series based on real cowboy and real artist Charlie Russell. Parker's probably taller, but the temperament's credible. Garland was always good, as was Flippen. And Borden Chase was behind it all! Not a bad roster. Wish they'd costumed the cowboys more like Russell's accurate paintings, but TV back then wouldn't have been able to handle it. Check the outfits in Tombstone, Monte Walsh, Wild Bill for some instances. I'd like to see an episode where Russell and Remington have a fast draw showdown, know what I mean?

That was a great show.

Thanks Bob. Never saw this before.

The Prime-Time slots in those years were chock-a-block full of Westerns. This would have been only one among many.

Enjoyed this immensely. I kinda wish they'd made more!

Thanks Bob...I never knew that OL' Fess had done this, I thot I'd seen everthing he done, and I'm 75, so I seen a bunch of it......take care.....OnWard......

Never heard of the Man but you would think American History in School would Teach there Own Real History🇺🇸

Fess parker was my favorite!

I think this sure could have been a great show. Especially with Fess Parker!!

I was almost on that Daniel Boone show with my pal Darby Hinton. But dad was in the Air Force and didn't want to resign and move to Hollywood. 😢

To bad this never made it passed 1 episode. This would have been a great show.

Wish they put these back on Prime.

Wish all the Foraken Westerns episodes were available on dvd and bluray.

Wow! Fess Parker always my favorite.. I named my dalmatian Davy Crockett. 🥰

I'm glad it's back.

Wow, great 1st Western; too bad it wasn't a series. Fess Parker, supee great actor!!! Miss him!!!

Love this, shame it wasn't picked up.

Fess Parker really had a tv presence. There's no doubt about that!

Enjoyed that! Thank you!

Know that was a good movie. Different kind for Fess. Thanks for sharing

Too bad no one picked it up! A great story and Fess carried it off like every other part he took on.

Thank you. I remember seeing this. Wondered why there were not any more?

I had to come back to this presentation (Western television shows FULL LENGTH EPISODES) to say that your closing commentary was the best that I've ever seen. FYI I'm 72... so some would say that I've seen a lot. Anyway: During the commentary you were wearing your gun as a right handed person would... but, but, but During your intro to "Russell" you wore the gun left handed. You are doing (in my opinion) a great job! Keep it up!!

U learn something new each day

Excellent.

I think this would have been a really great show!

I really liked this one too bad they didn't make it a series. Fess Parker was very good in this.

You're back .... Yesss !!! 👍

This series had promise, too bad no one picked it up.

Wow!! So sad this didn't continue

What a shame this wasn't picked up. Not for historical accuracy, but for Parker's aw shucks, humorous hero, and Garland's ready-for-anything romance.

This would've made great series !

Good movie to short 💯💯

It would be ideal to pick this up now. America could benefit seeing one of our real stand-outs at This point.

Shows like this made me a feared of stampedes and quicksand, now I've been around cattle over 50 years I've never seen a stampede and never got caught in quicksand...

@henryrodgers1752

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I actually found some "quicksand" in the desert outside El Paso, so I tossed a rock in it. It was about 4 inches deep ! Not a good place to hide the bodies, after all

With the young hothead learning what it means to kill someone, this had some similar tropes and themes to Unforgiven, just four decades or so earlier.

Russell with the name alone I wouldn't pick this pilot either. I am now editing because after watching this great pilot I quite enjoyed it. Not only that but in one of my life experience I came across some painting that I love and and wished I was in the scene (I was a youngster then), and had no idea it was made by Russel. I think I had a copy of some bronze sculptor of a man on a horse that's broncing. Made also by him and again I didn't know. Now I'm in my 60s and the sculpture is gone.

Bev Garland was a sassy cutie pie - one of my ATF actresses.

Do not forsake me ohh my Western and leave me hanging ornn A Treeeee😎dats all y'all

This woulda been helluva show. Too bad they ain’t morel

Love it like John Wayne Groove Machine 😅🤣😂😆

The kid does not realize he did nothing wrong; it is just that he have a conscious. The thugs looked and asked for and found the fate they sought. Sad but true.

Surprised it was never taken up , it might even have given Rawhide a run for its money.

Paul Carr was in a good episode of The Fugitive.

It's an outright crime that was the only episode!

Dozens of western series were around at that time, and this one is just a run of the mill stuff. No different than many others

BEAUTIFUL BEVERLY GARLAND USED TO PLAY AN UNDERCOVER POLICE WOMAN ALONGSIDE GEORGE RAFT IN A SERIES FROM THE EARLY FIFTIES CALKED "DECOY".

Saw this one.

yes cbs should relaunch this series. if i win the lotto i'll produce the show.

🤠

So Charlie has a photographic memory. How convenient.

Amazing Story ! I wonder what Art Department @ Which Education institute caries this information ?

Curious this wasn't picked up.

one day my bro-in-law's (the modern everett russell, of WA state) paintings may hang somewhere important. they sure sell for enough now! p.s. oh, yeah, notice the artist didn't get a thing for his work--- his boss got the bottle!

FORSAKEN WESTERNS: LAS SERIES DEL OESTE DESCARTADAS. THAT'S THE ROUGH SPANISH TRANSLATION.

Who knoweded Ole Daniel Boone could paint?

The reason Russell wasn't picked up for a series? Two words, Beverly Garland!

@richardyoung1890

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So what’s wrong with Beverly Garland?She was pretty nice figure and a good actress.

@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen

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Huh?

Was Charles Russell that tall in real life?

I feel an odd affinity for this character.

Fess Parker was Always Xcellent. Apparently Walt Disney tried 2 Ruin Him 4 some reason. Anyone verify that & Why ?

cannot figure the misjudgement of the vip's who turned this opportunity down. sometimes ppl just get too big for their 'breetches'. i & my huuuge family would've watched it every week (& i doo mean huge- my dad died at 98 & he had 211 direct descendants, as close as we cld figure. but, at that time we didn't know abt one brother & his son...).

The ad strips make this unwatchable. We are not left alone for 30 seconds to concentrate.

FESS PARKER LOOKED MUCH BETTER AS DANIEL BOONE.

@cowboywoodard2569

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And Davey Crockett

Excellent cast but wrong woman actor. Good story that would have made good tv series historical story of the western painter Russell. Thank you.

@wildbillharding

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What's wrong with Garland's performance? I thought it was fine.

First

@samual3006

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So what!!

@RabbiSteve

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@@samual3006 agreed! At least if he’s going to actually take the trouble to *be* first, could have something worthwhile to say.

@samual3006

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@@RabbiSteve Probably still at school 🚸 🤣

This TV pilot "Russell" represents a bad day for writer Borden Chase, who was at his best writing cynical Westerns such as Winchester '73, Vera Cruz (1954) and Man Without A Star (1955). Russell is a cheaply made TV Western that goes nowhere and is loaded with coincidences, such as the hotel owner being on the held-up stage just before the cattle herd stampedes. A stampede that is edited from stock footage taken from other movies. It is no surprise to me that CBS was unable to get a sponsor for this proposed series. 30 series episodes of a Western artist painting pictures and spewing philosophy is not an audience grabber.

@wl45steve61

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Party pooper

Just get a job man.