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General Television

The following sources list almost every prime time television show in existence (with some rare exceptions). For citing broadcast dates and timeslots, as well as primary credits and a general synopsis (if needed), these are considered to be reliable sources. Both of these books are available at archive.org to be checked out and reviewed as needed (direct links provided). Preformatted citation templates are provided that you can easily copy/paste if needed.

Author Title Publisher Google Internet Archive
Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle F. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present Ballantine Books, 2007 get it at Google Books get it at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Brooks_and_Marsh">{{Cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Tim|author-link=Tim Brooks (historian)|last2=Marsh|first2=Earle F.|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present|publisher=[[Ballantine Books]]|year=2007|isbn=978-0-345-49773-4|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC}}</ref>
McNeil, Alex Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present Penguin Books, 1996 get it at Google Books get it at the Internet Archive
<ref name="McNeil">{{cite book|last=McNeil |first=Alex |title=Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present |location=New York |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=0-14-02-4916-8 |date=1996 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dctkAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
Lackmann, Ronald W. The Encyclopedia of American Television Facts on File, 2003 get it at Google Books get it at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Lackmann">{{cite book |last=Lackmann |first=Ronald W. |title=The Encyclopedia of American Television |date=2003 |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=0-8160-4554-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZ_FjgEACAAJ}}</ref>
Hyatt, Wesley The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television Billboard Books, 1997 get it at Google Books get it at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Hyatt">{{Cite book |last=Hyatt |first=Wesley |title=The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television |date=1997 |publisher=[[Billboard Books]] |isbn=978-0-8230-8315-2 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nx2QgAACAAJ }}</ref>
Stark, Steven D. Glued to the Set: the 60 Television Shows and Events That Made Us Who We Are Today Simon & Schuster, 1997 get it at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Stark">{{Cite book |last=Stark |first=Steven D. |title=Glued to the Set: the 60 Television Shows and Events That Made Us Who We Are Today |date=1997 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=  |language=en |url= }}</ref>
Western Television

The following sources are deemed to be reliable. While they may not list every television Western ever made, there is a lot of information on most of the westerns made during the "golden age" of the TV Western. Some of these books are available at archive.org to be checked out and reviewed as needed (direct links provided). Preformatted citation templates are provided that you can easily copy/paste if needed.

  • Magers, Boyd, and Michael G. Fitzgerald. Westerns women: interviews with 50 leading ladies of movie and television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s (McFarland, 2004)
Westerns women: interviews with 50 leading ladies of movie and television westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s at Google Books
<ref name="Magers">{{Cite book |last=Magers |first=Boyd |last2=Fitzgerald |first2=Michael G. |title=Westerns Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s |date=2004-07-01 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |isbn=978-0-7864-2028-5 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2YvBhX8CZ0C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover}}</ref>
  • Marill, Alvin H. Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders (Scarecrow Press, 2011)
Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders at Google Books
<ref name="Marill">{{Cite book |last=Marill |first=Alvin H. |title=Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders |date=2011-06-01 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=978-0-8108-8133-4 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrIspiOaqboC&newbks=0 }}</ref>
Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western at Google Books
Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western at the Internet Archive
<ref name="MacDonald">{{Cite book |last=MacDonald |first=J. Fred |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E9VkAAAAMAAJ |title=Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western |date=1987 |publisher=[[Praeger Paperback|Praeger]]|isbn=978-0-275-92326-6 |language=en}}</ref>
  • Yoggy, Gary A. Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television (McFarland & Company, 1995)
Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television at Google Books
Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Yoggy">{{Cite book |last=Yoggy |first=Gary A. |title=Riding the Video Range: The Rise and Fall of the Western on Television |date=1995 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |isbn=978-0-7864-0021-8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSzuAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0}}</ref>
  • West, Richard Television Westerns, Major and Minor Series, 1946-1978 (McFarland & Company, 1987)
Television Westerns Major and Minor Series, 1946-1978 at Google Books
Television Westerns Major and Minor Series, 1946-1978 at the Internet Archive
<ref name="West">{{cite book|last=West|first=Richard|title=Television Westerns: Major and Minor Series, 1946-1978|date=1987|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|isbn=9780899502526|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O9VkAAAAMAA}}</ref>
Film
  • Broughton, Lee (ed). Critical Perspectives on the Western : From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
Butlerblog/Westerns at Google Books
Butlerblog/Westerns at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Broughton">{{Cite book |editor-last=Broughton|editor-first=Lee |title=Critical Perspectives on the Western : From a Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained |date=2016 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781442272422 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKnqDAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
  • Carter, Matthew. Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
Butlerblog/Westerns at Google Books
Butlerblog/Westerns at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Edgerton">{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Matthew |title=Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative |date=2014 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9780748685592 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1larBgAAQBAJ}}</ref>
  • Edgerton, Gary R. & Marsden, Michael T. eds. Westerns: The Essential Journal of Popular Film & Television Collection (Routledge, 2012)
Westerns: The Essential Journal of Popular Film & Television Collection at Google Books
Westerns: The Essential Journal of Popular Film & Television Collection at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Edgerton">{{Cite book |last=Edgerton |first=Gary R. |title=Westerns: The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection |date=2013-09-13 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-76515-6 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eraAAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
Shooting stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film at Google Books
Shooting stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film at the Internet Archive
<ref name="McDonald>{{Cite book |last=McDonald |first=Archie P. |title=Shooting Stars: Heroes and Heroines of Western Film |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-8357-3957-3 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9z5JPgAACAAJ}}</ref>
The Westerns and War Films of John Ford at Google Books
The Westerns and War Films of John Ford at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Matheson">{{Cite book |last=Matheson |first=Sue |title=The Westerns and War Films of John Ford |date=2016 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-4422-6106-8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMZ4CwAAQBAJ}}</ref>
John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth at Google Books
John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Munn">{{Cite book |last=Munn |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Munn |title=John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth |date=2005 |publisher=[[Robson Books]] |isbn=978-1-101-21026-0 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVJL6w1T3ocC}}</ref>
  • Parks, Rita. The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology (UMI Research Press, 1982)
The Western Hero in Film and Television at Google Books
The Western Hero in Film and Television at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Parks">{{Cite book |last=Parks |first=Rita |title=The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology |date=1982 |publisher=[[UMI Research Press]] |isbn=978-0-8357-1287-3 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwO1AAAAIAAJ}}</ref>
God Bless You, Buffalo Bill at Google Books
God Bless You, Buffalo Bill at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Sarf">{{Cite book |last=Sarf |first=Wayne Michael |title=God Bless You, Buffalo Bill: A Layman's Guide to History and the Western Film |date=1983 |publisher=[[Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8453-4732-4 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r22_IwAACAAJ}}</ref>
  • Simmon, Scott. The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
The Invention of the Western Film at Google Books
The Invention of the Western Film at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Simmon">{{Cite book |last=Simmon |first=Scott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC |title=The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century |published=2003 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-55581-4 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN64jzq4Q3AC}}</ref>
The West in Early Cinema at Google Books
The West in Early Cinema at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Verhoeff">{{Cite book |last=Verhoeff |first=Nanna |title=The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning |date=2006 |publisher=[[Amsterdam University Press]] |isbn=978-90-5356-831-6 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKDAsYDXxz8C}}</ref>
Silent Film
  • Langman, Larry A Guide to Silent Westerns (Greenwood Publishing, 1992)
<ref name="Langman">{{Cite book |last=Langman |first=Larry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC |title=A Guide to Silent Westerns |date=1992 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-27858-7 |language=en}}</ref>
Other

Some of these encompass both film and television.

  • Rollins, Peter C. & O'Connor, John E. eds. Hollywood's West: the American frontier in film, television, and history (University Press of Kentucky, 2005)
Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History at Google Books
Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History at the Internet Archive
<ref name="Rollins">{{Cite book |last=Rollins |first=Peter C. |last2=O'Connor |first2=John E. |title=Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History |date=2005-11-11 |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |isbn=978-0-8131-3855-8 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suc99SBlbnEC&newbks=0}}</ref>


Assessments

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As articles are assessed they are categorized in Category:Westerns articles by quality and Category:Westerns articles by importance. From this, WP:1.0 creates a quality statistics table and a quality log of articles assessed using the project {{WikiProject Westerns}} banner.

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Series overview

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Episode tables

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There are two templates used to make an episode table - episode table and episode list. The episode list template is used within the episode table, with one episode list template for each episode.

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