The soothing nature of classic TV
With the vast number of stations and content from which to choose on TV nowadays, it's kinda nice to look at shows produced way back when. If from a certain age group, watching series remembered from childhood can bring back pleasant memories from a less complicated time in life in a long-gone era like those featured on several numbers of digital affiliated TV stations. For the ever-growing number of folks who prefer streaming or get their TV content from over-the-air (OTA) broadcast, digital affiliated TV stations are the point 2 and up from the station with which it is affiliated. For example. if you're watching the Fox affiliate at channel 50.1, a network specializing in some form of classic TV fair may reside at 50.2.
Westerns in the afternoon
The weekday afternoon schedule is a three-hour block of dramas that are, arguably, the most popular of the western genre. Who of a certain age doesn't remember stopping to see the marshal gun down the Dodge City bad guy at the beginning of Gunsmoke? Even if you didn't care for the shoot-em-ups that were all over the TV in the 1950s and 60s, chances are if your house had television, you saw them at least sometimes because your daddy or daddy figure watched -- all the way up to when the last of the TV cowboys rode off into the sunset. Gunsmoke, the lead-in for Me-TV's weekday afternoon schedule has not been off television since it left the air in 1975 after 20 seasons. (Had it returned in 2012, Law & Order would have logged in 21 seasons to break the record set by the seminal western, but alas that did not happen.) Along with Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) and company in the afternoons, MeTV also airs back-to-back episodes of The Rifleman (my grandfather's personal favorite) and Bonanza, the show that introduced the late Michael Landon to the television landscape.
Bonanza - The Lost Episodes
Season 10 Episode 23
"The Wish"
Aired: 3 March 1969
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