Annie Oakley (1954-1956)

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Plot Summary
A fictionalized account of the life of legendary Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Set in the quiet western town of Diablo, Annie and her little brother Tagg made sure that outlaws who moseyed into town kept on going. Often at her side was friend, suitor and deputy sheriff Lofty Craig with whom she often showed off her shooting prowess.
Written by Jean-Marc Rocher

Series Cast
Gail Davis ... Annie Oakley (81 episodes, 1954-1957)
Brad Johnson ... Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig / ... (81 episodes, 1954-1957)
Jimmy Hawkins ... Tagg Oakley (80 episodes, 1953-1957)
Bob Woodward ... Stagecoach Driver / ... (38 episodes, 1954-1957)
Dick Tufeld (16 episodes, 1954)
Harry Lauter ... Bert Slade / ... (12 episodes, 1954-1957)
Gregg Barton ... Boyd Spencer / ... (11 episodes, 1954-1956)
Stanley Andrews ... Chet Osgood / ... (11 episodes, 1954-1957)
Myron Healey ... Al Proctor / ... (10 episodes, 1954-1957)

And many more including,
Alan Hale Jr.and Lee Van Cleef

Series Directed
George Archainbaud (32 episodes, 1954-1957)
Frank McDonald (18 episodes, 1954-1956)
Ray Nazarro (14 episodes, 1954-1956)
and more...

Series Produced
Louis Gray .... executive producer / producer (24 episodes, 1954-1957)
Colbert Clark .... producer (13 episodes, 1954)
Gene Autry .... executive producer (3 episodes, 1956-1957)
Armand Schaefer .... executive producer (2 episodes, 1956-1957)

Series Writing Credits
Eric Freiwald (26 episodes, 1954-1957)
Robert Schaefer (26 episodes, 1954-1957)
and more....

Filming Locations
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA
Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA
Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Melody Ranch - 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California, USA
Pioneertown, California, USA
Walker Ranch - 19152 Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall, California, USA

Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized
the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes,
each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.

Ah I remember it well, and thanks to Chester
for mentioning it on the
Western Legend- Annie Oakley
thread.

Gail Davis, was beautiful, and was creditabile in her part,
because she was actually a crackshot herself.
The series plots bore little resemblance to the exploits of real Annie.

It was a tremendous success, and amongst female audiences,
as it was in stark contrast to the predominate male series,
that were around at the time.

Many locations looked familiar, as indeed,
thet were used in many of Duke's movies at the time.
The reason being that Gene Autry was the Producer.

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Probably the first, genuinely fun, early feminist TV show!, 9 December 2007
10/10
Author: gariann from United States

This TV show, probably the first of it's kind, demonstrated that a woman despite heavy obligations and responsibilities (little brother, no parents and a ranch to run), could successfully compete in a man's world. Not only could she successfully compete, but she would come through in a major crisis, save lives, behave with genuine courage, dignity and honor, do it cheerfully with good humor and prove extremely useful to the community while being the paradigm role model to an impressionable younger brother.

Where the TV show is a fictionalized account bearing no relationship to the real Annie Oakley, their accomplishments were. They both competed not just successfully but surprisingly and consistently, in what was then regarded as a man's world. The real Annie Oakley (Phoebe Ann Oakley Moses or Mozee or Mozey) was the heroine of the day in her travels through the US and Europe in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show out shooting just about anyone. In a time that antibiotics were non-existent, she suffered through tremendous injury and illness nearly dying on a couple of occasions and demonstrated a rare courage of getting out of bed to ensure that the show went on! Previous to that she had been the support of her family, ensuring that food was on the table every night and in later life quietly worked to support charities and women's rights.

To young girls growing up in the '50's the TV show Annie was the perfect counter balance to the heroics of The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autrey TV shows. Was it a coincidence she rode a palomino? Doubtful. The writers probably wanted to show as subtly as possible that she could compete with Roy and Dale on her own terms. The genre was the popular wild west-the most successful for many years if the longevity of westerns is a measure. Every week youngsters grew up knowing that America was exemplified by the standards of the Old West, where character was king. Honor, fair play, justice-for-all were the by words on which the TV heroes were modeled. That there was a pistol-packing lady whose character was a match for any of her male counterparts says a good deal about the fabric of the American character and actress Gail Davis made Annie Oakley the cheerful ideal to which all girls aspired. ANNIE OAKLEY was a wonderful TV sho

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Here's the Annie Oakley us "Seniors" remember, . . .

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