TV in the 50s and 60s used to have a very different sensibility.
Take a look at the 1964/65 season, for example, and you’d find an over-supply of westerns - Bonanza, Branded, Buckskin, Wagon Train, The Virginian, Daniel Boone, Rawhide, and Gunsmoke. And keep in mind, this was when westerns were on the way out. There were so many more on the air through …