The American West became a popular backdrop for early TV—and a showcase for what TIME magazine called Hollywood’s “he-manly specimens.” “Hopalong Cassidy” and “The Lone Ranger” (both 1949-57) led a long line of pistol-packing, small-screen frontier heroes whose job was to help sheriffs vanquish villains. The shows may have been mostly shot on California sound stages using poor scripts, but TIME declared of their heroes, “Their teeth were glittering, their biceps bulging, their pistols blazing right there in the living room
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