Grab your boots and saddle up partner because American Heroes Channel (AHC) is back with an all-new WESTERN WEEK. Kicking off Saturday, October 1 at 8/7c, AHC transports viewers back to the American Frontier for an entire week of Western-themed series, specials and movies, including the network premiere of the original, iconic Western film – THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.
From roping and riding, to shooting and fighting, WESTERN WEEK highlights the real heroes, villains and legends that dominated the Wild West. Featuring bitter rivals, notorious outlaws, and infamous gunslingers, the week-long programming event airs Saturday, October 1 through Friday, October 7, beginning nightly at 8/7c, only on AHC.
The complete programming line-up for WESTERN WEEK is as follows:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (MGM, 1960) Airs at 8/7c
A Mexican village is being terrorized by the bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach) and his gun blazing goons. Seven American mercenaries are hired to protect the village. The group trains the townsfolk in gunplay as a trap is set for Calvera. The bandits suffer casualties after a raid, but they regroup to capture the seven gunmen. Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn and Brad Dexter star as the seven guns who must escape wrath of their captor Calvera.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
GUNSLINGERS
Billy the Kid
Airs at 8/7c
On a bloodstained frontier where corruption is king, an unlikely hero becomes a crusader for justice… and revenge. By the time of his death at the age of 21, everyone in the country had heard of Billy the Kid.
BOUNTY HUNTERS OF THE OLD WEST
Premieres at 9/8c
This two-hour special, featuring America’s most renowned bounty hunters, reveals the infamous tales of survival and courage from the Wild West.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
AMERICAN LAWMEN
Sheriff Baker & The Everglades Blood Feud
Airs at 8/7c
A lawless backwater on the East Coast’s final frontier, the Florida Everglades are home to bank robbers, rumrunners, and cold-blooded killers. Sheriff Bob Baker is determined to clean up the county, but that means he’s going to have to break up the infamous Ashley gang first. For more than a decade, John Ashley and his thugs have been terrorizing Palm Beach County. And their bloody feud with Baker has become a personal vendetta.
AMERICAN LAWMEN
Dallas Stoudemire: The Hero of El Paso
Airs at 9/8c
Lawlessness runs rampant in a notorious Texas outpost and it’s up to a Confederate army veteran named Dallas Stoudenmire to tame the town known as ‘Hell’ Paso. Within days of taking over as marshal, a legendary gunfight proves Stoudenmire is serious about his job, but it also earns him a long list of enemies. And as tempers flare and a blood feud escalates, it seems the only way to get justice is an old-fashioned duel to the death.
ALASKAN GOLD RUSH WARS
Premieres at 10/9c
This epic Gold Rush showdown pits legendary conman Jefferson “Soapy” Smith and his loyal “Soap Gang” against town organizer-turned vigilante Frank Reid and the Committee of 101, in a battle to bring justice to the lawless Alaskan Frontier
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
LEGENDS OF THE WEST
Wild Bill: Marksman and Marked Man
Airs at 8/7c
When the most famous man in the Old West outlives his legend, he becomes the target of gunslingers eager to make legends of their own – by shooting him dead.
LEGENDS OF THE WEST
Butch Cassidy: The Perfect Criminal
Airs at 9/8c
Until the day he died – whenever that was – nobody ever outsmarted Butch Cassidy. He always got away. Cassidy was an outlaw who lived more by his wits than by his gun.
HATFIELDS VS. MCCOYS
Premieres at 10/9c
The Hatfields versus the McCoys is one of the most notorious feuds in American history. What starts as Civil War hostility rapidly escalates to kidnapping, illicit love affairs, murder, and a nation-wide turf war.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
GUNSLINGERS
Tom Horn: Grim Reaper of the Rockies
Airs at 8/7c
As the Wild West becomes settled, this mysterious hit man kills for men who want to preserve the old order – where violence rules all. But the law isn’t giving in this time.
GUNSLINGERS
John Wesley Hardin: The Dark Heart of Texas
Airs at 9/8c
In the turbulent aftermath of the Civil War, a volatile gunman wages a bloody crusade against anyone who stands between himself and his notions of freedom.
GUNSLINGERS
The Tombstone Vendetta
Airs at 10/9c
When one of the frontier’s bravest men discovers the limits of the law in the most dangerous boomtown in the West, he exacts his own brand of justice on the cowboys who shot his brothers.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
WILD WEST’S MOST WANTED
Airs at 8/7c
Go beyond the Wanted posters. From Jesse James to Butch Cassidy, outlaws of the West have been immortalized in American mythology. Admired for their passion and lawlessness, these glorified masters of the quick draw were murderers, thieves and thugs.
BOUNTY HUNTERS OF THE OLD WEST
Airs at 9/8c
This two-hour special, featuring America’s most renowned bounty hunters, reveals the infamous tales of survival and courage from the Wild West.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Airs at 8/7c
A Mexican village is being terrorized by the bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach) and his gun blazing goons. Seven American mercenaries are hired to protect the village. The group trains the townsfolk in gunplay as a trap is set for Calvera. The bandits suffer casualties after a raid, but they regroup to capture the seven gunmen. Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn and Brad Dexter star as the seven guns who must escape wrath of their captor Calvera.
Online, AHCtv.com will host original content for WESTERN WEEK, including exclusive clips on “Top Guns of the Wild West”. Interactive features will also help identify your inner lawman, with a “Which GUNSLINGER Are You” personality quiz.
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