Weeknight television was made up almost wholly of Westerns and army serials. For the 1962–63 season, ABC showed in its prime-time slot (7:30 p.m. back then) Cheyenne on Monday (followed by The Rifleman at 8:30), Combat! on Tuesday, Wagon Train on Wednesday, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on Thursday, and Gallant Men, a World War II drama, on Friday. (Odd that in later years Ozzie and Harriet would become a symbol of post-war American conformism—at ABC in 1963, it broke the macho mold.) NBC’s Tuesday-through-Thursday offerings in that time slot were Laramie, The Virginian, and Wide
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