Dances With Wolves seems to have lost some of its luster. It didn't make Paste's Top 100, or Time Out's Top 50 (Though Costner's other Western, Open Range, did)
An aside: I strangely was not as in love with Westerns on TV - The Big Valley (too plastic), Maverick, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, etc...
Those I did watch and enjoy as a kid were Gunsmoke and Bonanza. And I loved the first 2 seasons of Kung Fu, and Cheyenne was solid. But my favorite is probably the Rifleman. Aside from him being the fastest rifle in the west, and the action and drama that took place. I like the genuine love and respect the father and son had for one another. I thought both Johnny Crawford and Chuck Conners were great in their roles. Plus it was developed by Sam Peckinpah.
From wiki... "Peckinpah, who wrote and directed many early episodes, based many characters and plots on his own childhood on a ranch. His insistence on violent realism and complex characterizations, as well as his refusal to sugarcoat the lessons he felt the Rifleman's son needed to learn about life, put him at odds with the show's producers at Four Star. "
Oh and it inspired all those "Pa! Pa!" riffs on MST3K.
Good show.