The television Western was among the most popular sort of program to air on the Big Three in the 1960s. Even in an age of pop music, the sexual revolution, and civil rights, most audiences flocked to the Old West for their entertainment. In that time, plenty of programs from The Twilight Zone to I Love Lucydove into the horse opera, but there was one NBC sitcom that surpassed them all when it came to spoofing the genre: The Monkees.