MACKENZIE'S RAIDERS/SYN/1958-59 - Set in the 1870s, this was the story US 4th Cavalry officer, Colonel Ronald S. Mackenzie (Richard Carlson) who formed a band of raiders to battle Mexican bandits who attacked settlements along the American border. (30 Minutes) 

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN/CBS/1998-99 - Based on the Yul Brenner-Steve McQueen western The Magnificent Seven (1960), this western adventure told the story of a rugged gunfighter (Michael Biehn) who enlists the aid of a preacher, a con man, a rogue, a thrill seeker, a drifter and a former slave to rid a frontier town overrun by renegade ex-confederate soldiers. The original idea for The Magnificent Seven series/movie was inspired by Akira Kurasawa's 1954 Japanese classic film The Seven Samurai. 

MAJOR ADAMS, TRAILMASTER  See - "Wagon Train"

A MAN CALLED SHENANDOAH/ABC/1965-66 - Robert Horton starred as a survivor of a shooting found near-dead on the prairie. Awakening from the ordeal, he realized he had amnesia. Calling himself Shenandoah, he spent the rest of the series searching for his identity (30 Minutes). TRIVIA NOTE: In the 1990s actor Robert Urich starred in a similar western called LAZARUS MAN/UPN/1996-97 about a man buried then resurrected who wandered the western frontier trying to piece together his past, a past possibly linked to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. (60 Minutes) 

THE MAN FROM BLACKHAWK/ABC/1959-60 - The story of Sam Logan (Robert Rockwell), an investigator for the Chicago-based Blackwell Insurance company who traveled the west of the 19th century settling claims and foiling schemes to defraud the company. (30 Minutes) 

MAN WITHOUT A GUN/SYN/1957-59 - Crusading newspaper editor of the Yellowstone Sentinel, Adam Maclean (Rex Reason) tried to prove the "pen was mightier than the gun" in the Dakota Territory of the 1880s. (30 Minutes) 

MARSHAL DILLON  See - "Gunsmoke"

THE MARSHAL OF GUNSIGHT PASS/ABC/1950 - Children's western series originating live from Los Angeles and starring Russell "Lucky" Hayden as the Marshal (later replaced by Eddie Dean) and Roscoe Ates as the deputy sidekick. Andy Parker and the Plainsmen were featured in songs and musical numbers. (30 Minutes) 

MAVERICK/ABC/1957-62 - The frontier misadventures of the Maverick brothers, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) Maverick, who drifted through the Old West in search of an honest card game and a pretty lady or two. Cousin Beauregard (Roger Moore), an English raised relative and a third brother, Brent Maverick (Robert Colbert) joined the cast later in the series. (60 Minutes) See also "Bret Maverick" and "Young Maverick" 

MCCLOUD/NBC/1970-77 - Contemporary police drama about US Marshal Sam McCloud (Dennis Weaver), a Taos, New Mexico lawman assigned to the concrete canyons of New York City to learn modern law enforcement techniques. His trademarks included a wool-lined leather coat, cowboy hat and the catchphrase "There ya' go." The character for this series was inspired by the Clint Eastwood movie Coogan's Bluff about a police officer from the Southwest who takes a prisoner back to New York, loses him and then recaptures him. (120 Minutes)

THE MEN FROM SHILOH  See - "The Virginian"

THE MONROES/ABC/1966-67 - Frontier adventure about five orphaned children who struggled to make a home in the Wyoming Territory of 1876 after their parents drowned. Ranging from 18 to 6 years of age, the orphans included Clayt (Michael Anderson, Jr.); Kathy (Barbara Hershey); twin brothers Jefferson & Fennimore (Kevin & Kevin Schultz); and Amy (Tammy Locke). (60 Minutes) 

MONTE WALSH (TV-Movie 2003) - Based on the novel by Jack Schaefer, Tom Selleck starred at Monte Walsh, the last of a dying breed of cowboys who were loosing their livelihood to the introduction of the railroad. Faced with a changing frontier and comments like "You can't be a cowboy forever," Monte holds steadfast to his cowboy roots and insists "I won't do anything I can't do from a horse." Keith Carradine, William Devane, James Gammon and Barry Corbin co-starred as Monte's cowboy compatriots. Isabella Rossellini appeared as Martine, a prostitute and the love of Monte's life. Broadcast on the TNT network, the movie was directed by Simon Wincer (the director of Lonesome Dove). Teleplay by Michael Brandman, Robert B. Parker, David Z. Goodman and Lukas Heller.

MY FRIEND FLICKA/ABC/CBS/NBC/1956-58  - Based on the trilogy of novels Thunderhead, Son of Flicka and Green Grass of Wyoming by Mary O'Hara and the movie My Friend Flicka (1941), this series followed the adventures of a young Montana boy, Ken McLaughlin (Johnny Washbrook) and his horse, Flicka who lived at the Goose Bar Ranch at the turn of the century. In the 1941 movie, a ten-year-old Ken McLaughlin tended to the wounds of a wild filly who hurt itself when trying to escape captivity. Eventually the horse grew to trust the boy and they became fast friends. The four-year-old Arabian Sorrel who played Flicka on the TV series was called Wahama. He resembled Gene Autry's horse, Champion-having a white stockings and a partially blazed face. "Flicka" is Swedish for "little girl."