This week we look at ABC's "The Rifleman," which ran from September 30, 1958 - April 8, 1963 for five seasons. The five seasons consisted of 168 thirty minute episodes, all of which were in Black & White. 

Series Starred Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain, Johnny Crawford and his son Mark and Paul Fix as Micha Torrance.

Fight Scene....

Lucas vs Matt Dillon: It happened… sorta

https://youtu.be/TeeSEsW7c8A

Music in the background from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Western Cowboy Ride

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This "Weekend Wildcard" is just a bit of a "State of the Union" one might say. I just waned to take a moment to tell you all about the show and the direction we will be going as far as scheduling and there will soon be some technology upgrades coming as it relates to equipment and mixing software.

The main shows will now be released bi-weekly on Mondays. Mid-week Minis will still come at you on Wednesdays on a weekly basis. The next main show will be released October 5, followed by October 19th, etc.

The show will still remain open topic and of course, listener suggestions still take preference so make sure to hit us up at Rantingsofthefatman@yahoo.com 

Music Credits:

"Cheery Monday" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sweeter Vermouth by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4450-sweeter-vermouth

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Mid-Week Mini - Gunsmoke

In this episode we look at the history of the show and the characters and actors who made up the show.

Music in the background from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Western Cowboy Ride

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Welcome to the first edition of our newest feature, “Mid-week Mini’s,” an abbreviated single subject show featuring topics that may not always warrant a full feature episode. These shows will run in 6-8 week series, each following a defined theme. For our first series, we look back at some of the greatest TV Westerns of the past when six guns and saddles dominated the air-waves on a nightly basis.

This week we look at the show Bonanza which ran from September 12, 1959 through January of 1973 consisting of 14 seasons and totaling some 431 episodes.

Music Credits are as follows:

Western Cowboy Ride

FesliyanStudios.com ASCAP IPI 792929876, 792929974

Music in the background from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Thank you for stopping by. In this episode I'll be departing from the normal show format for an abbreviated episode that focuses primarily upon myself and a recent phenomena I've been encountering over the last few days. I'm going to talk about an instance of what they call "Musical Ear Syndrome." I'm going to tell you right now that it has nothing to do with innate musical ability.

In all actuality, it's kind of an alarming experience but fortunately with the aid of the internet and simply refusing to believe that I was going insane I was able to find out the cause and effect of this little known syndrome. I've included some links below if you'd like to read more about this. Perhaps you've encountered this yourself but were reluctant to tell anyone because you were afraid they would think your sanity was in question. I can certainly assure you that was the case with myself.

So give the show a listen, I do apologize for the sniffles but allergies were in the EXTREME category today for our region so there was no avoiding them, but hopefully it's not too bad.

Don't forget to give us feedback at Rantingsofthefatman@yahoo.com

Links and Musical Credits:

https://www.audiologyandhearing.com/musical-ear-syndrome/

https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/apophenia-audio-pareidolia-and-musical-ear-syndrome/

https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/musical-ear-syndrome-the-phantom-voices-ethereal-music-other-spooky-sounds-many-hard-of-hearing-people-secretly-experience/

Music Credits:

Opening - Backwoods_BBQ Royalty free thanks to "Music World" and Faizan Studio via Youtube Royalty Free Library.

Closing Song: Twilight Train - Country & Folk [copyright free music for YouTube videos] CUT2 Music

Music Credits:

Everything You Wanted By Dan Lebowitz

Backyard BBQ

Well folks thank you for checking out Episode 3. In this show we talk about A LOT of things from the Beirut Boom Boom, to Ralph S. Mouse of "Runaway Ralph" and "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" fame. We also talk about truck eating sharks in Enid, Oklahoma and the lack of Pre-Colombian history education in schools. We even talk a little about music and a lot about history. And if history isn't your thing, well we even talk about movies and their sequels, again. So click on in and give this one a listen.

Links for One Hit Wonders:

The Israelites Desmond Dekker and the Aces – 1968 https://youtu.be/mxtfdH3-TQ4

In The Summertime – Mungo Jerry -1970

https://youtu.be/wvUQcnfwUUM

Come on Eileen 1982- Dexy’s Midnight Runners

https://youtu.be/O_i9t7h8AgY

Link to photos of Enid's Shark Bridge

http://bridgeshark.com/

Link for Heavener Runestone

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/heavener-runestone

https://youtu.be/s3YTfhJmh1I - 536 AD, The Worst Year Ever