Plus, none of the Doctors would have looked out of place wandering onto the set of a Western movie, particularly the first such fellow, who in fact did find himself somewhat near the O.K. Corral on at least one occasion... for that matter, so did the comedy team on Star Trek! Hopefully not on the same set or day or anything like that.

But to get down to cases, a case can be made that "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a Western. It has a chase of a sorts, a mystery of a sorts, a hero, of a sort, and a robot... which, well, could be found at least on "The Wild, Wild West", if one could confuse that as a reference.

And many of the "space operas", movies, radio shows and novels of the thirties and forties were in fact just Westerns with the local and the lingo changed. Gene Roddenberry, of all people, admitted that Star Trek was pitched to the NBC execs as "Wagon Train to the stars", "Wagon Train" being an odd show where it took a pile of Conestogas under the guidance of a supposedly expert trailsman four and a half years to cross from Missouri to California... meeting a whole bunch of guest stars along the way.

And then there is such stuff as "Futureworld" and "Westworld" wherein an iconic Western figure, Yul Brynner, wearing his costume from "The Magnificent Seven" strides around trying to kill Peter Fonda and Richard Benjamin. Seemed like a good idea at the time.