Hello fellow baby boomers (I was born in 1951). Although you probably can't tell by looking at this innocent face, I was once a TV junkie.

I grew up in a family of three other brothers and six sisters. Counting Mom and Dad, you're talking about a family of twelve. And we had only one television to share between us!

Ever since we got our first TV in late the late '50s to very early '60s, I have been captivated by it. Some of the earliest shows I remember watching were Howdy Doody (1947 - 1960), Romper Room (first airing in New York in 1955), Diver Dan (it was paired with Felix the Cat in the New York City market from January 4, 1960 through August 4, 1962), Sea Hunt (1958 - 1961), and many, many others.

You may ask yourself the question, "with such a big family, how did you get to watch so many of your favorite programs most of the time?"

Well, being the eldest has its privileges. That and the fact that whoever got to the TV first got to control programming.

My father then loved to watch wrestling and baseball and my mother loved to watch American Bandstand and Million Dollar movie, and let's not forget Peyton Place.

But my father had to work and mother had to take care of the house and watch over an increasing family (my brothers and sisters are basically stairsteps.) That left plenty of time for me to take control.

I watched all types of programs (children and adult). Back in the day 'adult' meant programs such as Bonanza, I Spy, etc.

I watched cartoons such as Casper the friendly ghost, Felix the Cat, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Mighty Mouse, Top Cat, Woody woodpecker, and many others. I also watched sitcoms such as My Three Sons, and Father Knows Best and spy stories like The Saint, The Avengers, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E..

Sci Fi (The Time Tunnel, The Invaders) and horror (Chiller Theater and Creature Features) were also favorites. And then there were the westerns.

Of all the early TV programming, westerns easily dominated.

I don't know how I missed watching Gunsmoke, but I did watch TV westerns like Bonanza, Sugarfoot, Wild, Wild West, Wagon Train, Cheyenne, The Rebel, Bat Masterson, The Rifleman, Branded, The Lone Ranger, The Virginian, and The Guns of Will Sonnett.

It seems natural that I eventually had to design a website about the early TV westerns. This site came about due to a sudden thought and idea. I decided that now was a good time to act on it instead of dismissing it as I normally would.

Well, time to go. I hope you fellow 'shoot 'em up', cowboys and indians, and western lovers (whatever you call yourselves) enjoy the fruit of my labor (and it is a labor of love).

Be sure and let me hear from you.