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* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' #198-199 has four amnesiac superheroes (ComicBook/ElongatedMan, Franchise/TheFlash, Franchise/GreenLantern and ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}) being dumped in the WildWest.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'', especially in the Golden Age, would occasionally have a western themed issue with Diana going to Texas with Etta, who is from Texas and whose parents run a cattle ranch there. The best example may be "[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 The Legend of Rainbow and Stardust!]]" where Diana, Etta, the Heyday triplets, and the Candy family and ranchhands sit around a fire telling stories while dressed in plaid, cowboy boots, hats and handkerchiefs and then fight some rustlers.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': "Blood on the Saddle" featured Wild West recreationists; at least one of whom took the hobby way too seriously.

* "Paul Revere" from the Music/BeastieBoys' debut album ''Music/LicensedToIll'', which provides the extremely 80s-Brooklynite Beasties with an inexplicably Wild West-themed OriginStory involving horses, shotguns and running from the sheriff. As a matter of interest, the Beasties would later record a [[https://dangerousminds.net/comments/country_mikes_greatest_hits_the_beastie_boys_secret_country_album full-length country album]], ''Country Mike's Greatest Hits,'' as a Christmas present for friends and family.

* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Once Upon a Time in the West" features the duo solving a poisoning at an Arizona dude ranch resort, while pretending to be honeymooners there. As expected, it features a wide array of western-themed tropes, including the reason for the murder.

* ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1995}}'' episode "Heart's Desire" takes place in the Oregon Territory in 1872.
* ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'' episode "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE14LivingInHarmony Living in Harmony]]" takes place in an apparent {{Elseworld}} Wild West setting. Number Six is a sheriff who turns in his badge and gun and tries to leave town. It turns out to be a VirtualRealityInterrogation created in-universe with a stage set and hallucinogenic drugs.

* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1985}}'': In "Welcome to Winfield", two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town.

** [[Recap/CowboyBebopSession1AsteroidBlues "Asteroid Blues"]] is essentially ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
** [[Recap/CowboyBebopSession17MushroomSamba "Mushroom Samba"]] sees Ed and Ein chase down a bounty on a terraformed Europa that's very Old West-looking. Oddly, it's also a BlaxploitationParody.
** [[Recap/CowboyBebopSession22CowboyFunk "Cowboy Funk"]] has Spike become rivals with Andy, a "cowboy" in the traditional sense, complete with hat, revolver, horse, lasso and everything.

** Speaking of Tenchi Muyo: Its spinoff ''Anime/MagicalProjectS'' has one episode featuring a Wild West theme park in competition with a ninja theme park. [[spoiler: It ends with them joining forces to build a deliberately anachronistic [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cowboy ninja]] theme park. "The kids will love it!"]]

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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Season 9 episodes 32 and 33 involve Careless S. as a cowboy in the Wild West.
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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'', especially in the Golden Age, would occasionally have a western themed issue with Diana going to Texas with Etta, who is from Texas and whose parents run a cattle ranch there. The best example may be [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 "The Legend of Rainbow and Stardust!"]] where Diana, Etta, the Heyday triplets, and the Candy family and ranchhands sit around a fire telling stories while dressed in plaid, cowboy boots, hats and handkerchiefs and then fight some rustlers.

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* ''Animation/DziwnePrzygodyKoziolkaMatolka'': The episode "Czarny Bill" ("Black Bill") has the protagonist finding himself in a typical Wild West town menaced by a typical bandit. It's unusual, since the series is set in modern day, but then again AnachronismStew is heavily present in the original books as well.
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** [[Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsOfHumanMemory "Paradigms of Human Memory"]] showed that the study group went to an authentic Wild West ghost town [[NoodleIncident for some reason]].

* Done surprisingly rarely in ''Series/DoctorWho'': just twice in fifty years. The First Doctor visited in 1966's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters "The Gunfighters"]], and the Eleventh in 2012's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy "A Town Called Mercy"]].
** Played with in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut "The Impossible Astronaut"]]; the Doctor summons Rory, Amy and River to meet him in Utah. The Doctor show up wearing a Stetson hat, given to him in the previous episode. Just as he mentions to Rory and Amy, "I wear a Stetson now," River shoots the hat off his head, cowboy-style, with a six-shooter.

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Season 1 had [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E11TheMagnificentEight "The Magnificent Eight"]], and Season 2 had a SequelEpisode, [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry "Outlaw Country"]]. Both involve the Legends [[TimeTravel travelling]] to the Old West and teaming up with classic Creator/{{DC|Comics}} Western character Comicbook/JonahHex.

* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' had episode "Mild Mild West" in which Buffalo Bill Cody comes to Toronto with his road show. A stunt goes wrong, and it's concluded it was a murder.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "Heart's Desire" takes place in the Oregon Territory in 1872.
* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE14LivingInHarmony Living in Harmony]]" takes place in an apparent {{Elseworld}} Wild West setting. Number Six is a sheriff who turns in his badge and gun and tries to leave town. It turns out to be a VirtualRealityInterrogation created in-universe with a stage set and hallucinogenic drugs.

** “[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E18Frontierland Frontierland]]”. Sam and Dean go [[TimeTravel back in time]] to Old West Wyoming, get a magical gun from Samuel Colt, have a [[ShowdownAtHighNoon High Noon]] moment with a phoenix, and return to the present still dressed in cowboy paraphernalia (which Dean very likely kept, as he has “a fetish” for western wear).

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Welcome to Winfield", two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town.

* ''Series/WayneAndShuster'': "A Fistful of Fingers", which was a send-up of {{Spaghetti Western}}s. They also did an episode long parody of the ''Series/KungFu1972'' TV show.

* During the 2008 election cycle, ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' had great fun with a panel segment entitled "''Wait Wait'' on the Trail!", the standing intro for which involved normally strait-laced newscaster Carl Kasell performing a cowboy yell (to great hilarity) followed by a different [[TheWestern Western ]] song quote or cliche. (Hear one from Jan. 19, 2008 [[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18236418 here]].)
--> '''Peter:''' And now it's time once again for the segment we call... "''Wait Wait'' on the Trail!"
--> '''Carl:''' ''(cowboy music plays)'' YEEEEEEEHAW!! [[Series/TheVirginian Git along little dogies, git along]].

--> '''Korva:''' ''(cowboy music plays)'' YEEEEEEEHAW!! [[Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night!]]
--> '''Peter:''' Bullseye, Annie!

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* ''Roleplay/JourneyThroughTheMultiverse'' had Linkara's World as a Cowboy Episode. The setting even echoes that of a wild western setting, though without the HumongousMecha that the villains for the episode were given. Not to mention that Linkara's hometown is based off another town from a Cowboy Episode mentioned here.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' features the episode "Over a Barrel", in which the cast come to Appleloosa to deliver a tree, and end up resolving a conflict between the resident ponies and the buffalo tribe.

** ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021'' has the families go to the Tot Springs ranch to celebrate [[BirthdayEpisode Charlotte's 40th birthday]] in "Tot Springs Showdown". There, Angelica meets her four-and-a-quarter-year-old cousin Simon, who's a worse bully than her, even to the point of attempting to sabotage Charlotte's cake, and Didi reveals to everyone that she's pregnant with her second child.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion "The Question"]], Ruby decides she needs some time to herself after an argument with Sapphire. She's inspired by a wild-west comic Steven finds in Greg's comic collection to spend it dressing and acting like a cowboy.

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has one during the Orange Islands season. Ash, Misty, and [[ReplacementScrappy Tracey]] meet a cowboy named Ethan who has a Jolteon he uses like a cattle dog to keep track of his 'herd' of Magnemites. Team Rocket tries to steal them of course, so they can harness their electricity and give it to the Boss.

* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'': In "The Great Cookie Robbery", Nanny tasks Gonzo with giving each of his friends one cookie from a box of cookies she gives him while she prepares lunch. Gonzo, however, keeps all the cookies for himself and [[AteItAll eats every last one of them]]. To help his friends get their minds off their upset stomachs, Kermit takes them for a ride on his toy train. An ImagineSpot takes place where the train is apprehended by One-Eyed Jake, a robber who is after the babies' cookies. To make up to his friends for keeping the cookies for himself and eating them all, Gonzo takes on the identity of The Lone Weirdo and defeats Jake.