The Most Popular TV Show From Your Birth Year (1951-1990)

13. 1962: Wagon Train

A younger audience might look back on shows like Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, and Bonanza and assume that the most popular shows in the 50s and 60s were carbon copies. It was a more conservative time in which television studios were less daring, more confined by morality laws, and catering to a public that did not necessarily have a taste for salacious television.

Wagon Train is a classic Western that follows post-Civil War travelers from Missouri and California. It’s not unlike the acclaimed HBO show Deadwood, although Wagon Train is undoubtedly far less profane (and, in a sense, less realistic).