gustavratzenhofer wrote:Don't the English have their own rifleman?
Why do you always have to take our stuff?
We had to work on a budget in the early years of television.
To make a British cowboy programme would have meant flying all the actors over to Kansas or some other cowboy type place, or shoot it in somehwere like Dorset.
They TRIED Dorset, but the gunfights in the main street didn't quite look authentic enough, what with the thatched cottages either side, and Jones the Postman cycling through the scene.
So...we had to make do with other British "non cowboy" type programmes, such as Dr Who, The Prisoner and The Avengers.
Jones the Postman kept cycling through most of those scenes as well, but this time, he didn't look out of place.