Westerns: Your recommendations?

[StreamOfTheSky]

You forgot to mention Firefly and Firefly: Serenity!

I wanted to also mention Outlaw Star, but in all fairness, I've only seen the first episode thus far, so I can't honestly say it's a great anime yet. That said, I know about the plot, and have always wondered if Firefly was a total ripoff of Outlaw Star or not...

 

[Orius]

We'd ordered the DVDs before I started the thread. I am also thinking of seeign if I can beg or borrow the "Legend" series, starring Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie

Yeah, Brisco county's got enough weirdness in it for a Deadlands campaign, though it might be a tad light for Deadlands. Never played Deadlands, so can't say for sure. Legend might work too, but I've never seen that show, only vaguely know it by reputation.


Thing is a lot of the really classic Westerns are probably a bit too staid for the weirdness of Deadlands I think. They might be useful for setting details, but that might be all. The spaghetti Westerns and westerns from the late 60s or early 70s and onward probably have a tone that fits a Deadlands campaign better.

And it might help to take a look here too:

Weird West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cattle Punk - Television Tropes & Idioms

 

[Relique du Madde]

I wanted to also mention Outlaw Star, but in all fairness, I've only seen the first episode thus far, so I can't honestly say it's a great anime yet. That said, I know about the plot, and have always wondered if Firefly was a total ripoff of Outlaw Star or not...

I don't Firefly was a rip off of Outlastar. It's true that both series used the same sorts of character tropes, but sadly I feel alot of that was due to the cookie cutter aspect of many character types that appear in anime, manga, comic books and Science Fiction. Also, there only so many stories you can create based on a limited premise of "Outlaws aboard a spaceship trying to make a living with limited means" before it starts reflecting stories created by a previous work by another author which used a similar premise.