25/12/2024
"Aside from maybe something like the original 'Walker, Texas Ranger' (or perhaps even the more recent re-imagining, 'Walker'), it's not often that the Western genre crosses over with traditional network procedurals. But back in the early 1970s, after the Big Three networks purged themselves of most horse opera content, one classic Western TV star tried his best to mix the traditional tales with a more modern flare. Richard Boone was the star, and 'Hec Ramsey' was the program, which followed an old gunslinger as he sought to use more modern methods of criminal investigation to solve crimes on the open frontier. In a way, it was sort of like 'NCIS' meets the Wild West."
Richard Boone returned to the Old West with a new type of hero.
