The recent Westerns threads and the Pony Express thread Quasi posted today made me put The Young Riders into the DVD player. The first season is available on DVD, and I recorded the rest of the series on VHS years and years ago.
Yeah, it’s a TV show so it’s not up to cinematic standards. But I like it. Nice scenery, decent music, and who doesn’t like a Western?
‘Lou’ McCloud’s boy-disguise was pretty unbelievable, but she was outed to one person in the first episode, and everyone eventually found out. Yvonne Suhor was a cutie. (Still is, last time I saw a photo of her.) Hard to believe she was pushing 30 when she made the show.
As a gun aficionado, I’m a little peeved by the props choices. The show takes place in 1860. I can give them a pass because it’s time-consuming enough to use period pieces in a movie, let alone a weekly series; but I still notice. Incidentally, ‘Teaspoon’ was a Texas Ranger. ISTM he’d prefer a Dragoon to a Navy.
So: TV series, contrived plots, and anachronistic props. But it’s still a fun show to watch.