“‘Tex: Wisdom of the Old West’ grew out of the notion of juxtaposing the familiar tropes of the western genre against the often-trivial conflicts of the modern day (not to mention an excuse to cast actor Brooks Tegler as a gunslinger). Screenwriter Anna Coughlan put forth the idea of taking the traditional ‘lone gunman’ character, plopping him down in suburbia with a couple of decidedly non-western buddies, and seeing how well we could take a western storyline and fit it into a contemporary setting. From a typically western plot — a reluctant hero heeding the call to confront a land-grabbing villain — to multiple genre homages (particularly to Sergio Leone’s classic ‘Man with No Name’ trilogy), ‘Tex’ was our chance to revisit childhood fantasies of playing cowboy.”