How the West Was Won (1976)

Directed by

Irving J. Moore, Bernard McEveety

Genre

drama television series, Westerns on television

Country

United States

Length

3 seasons, 28 episodes

Rated

16

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The series follows the Macahan family as they travel west across America in the 19th century. It focuses on their struggles to settle and build a life on the frontier.

sprawlingnostalgicearnestleisurelyheroicold-fashionedexpansivefamily-oriented

What happens

How the West Was Won is an American Western television series that starred James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, and Richard Kiley. Loosely based on the 1962 Cinerama film of the same name, it began with a two-hour television film, The Macahans, in 1976, followed by a mini-series in 1977, and a regular series in 1978 and 1979. The show was a great success in Europe, apparently finding a larger and more lasting audience there than in the United States. It has been rebroadcast many times on various European networks, e.g. in France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden, and has built a cult following. It was released on DVD in Europe in November 2009. A sequence of paintings by Charles Marion Russell is shown during the end credits. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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