The Gabby Hayes Show (1950-1954)

Information from IMDb

Series Cast
Wright King (6 episodes, 1950-1951)
George 'Gabby' Hayes ... Himself - Host (1950-54) (unknown episodes)
Larry Buchanan (unknown episodes)
Clifford Sales ... Buck (unknown episodes)

Series Directed by
Vincent J. Donehue (6 episodes, 1950-1951)

Series Produced by
Joe Clair .... producer (unknown episodes)
E. Roger Muir .... producer (unknown episodes)
Martin Stone .... producer (unknowisodes)

Series Writing Credits
Jerome Coopersmith (1 episode, 1951)
Horton Foote (1 episode, 1951)
Larry Buchanan (unknown episodes)

Series Music Department
Larry Buchanan .... musical director (unknown episodes)

Trivia
A young Fred Rogers got his first TV job as a backstage worker on this show

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The Gabby Hayes Show is a general purpose western television series
in which the film star and Roy Rogers confidant, George "Gabby" Hayes ,
narrated each episode, showed clips from old westerns, or told tall tales
for a primarily children's audience.
The first Hayes program ran on NBC at 5:15 p.m. Eastern for fifteen minutes
three times per week and preceded the puppet series, Howdy Doody.
It aired from December 11, 1950, to January 1, 1954.
The second version was a half-hour broadcast on Saturday mornings,
carried for only thirteen weeks from May 12 to July 14, 1956, on ABC

The show was sponsored by Quaker Oats' puffed cereals,
which were "shot from guns". As was common at the time,
the host delivered the commercial.
This often included Hayes firing a small cannon loaded with the cereal at the camera,
while warning the viewers to "Watch out for your televisionary sets!"

The floor manager for the show was Fred Rogers
(of children's television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ) until 1953
when he left NBC to start working in public television.

User Review

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Fifteen minutes in the afternoon.
28 August 2005 | by shiloh_3 (Lansing, Michigan)

I remember this show quite well from the early fifties. Gabby was exactly as he appeared in countless westerns with everyone from John Wayne to Randolph Scott and Roy Rogers. The most fun came every day at the end of the show when Gabby advertised his sponsor in a most unusual way. He faced a cannon toward the television camera and filled it with grains of "wheat." Then he warned us to "stand back away from your televisionary sets 'cause here comes Quaker Puffed Wheat....shot from guns!!!!!" The cannon went off and the contents blew towards us as the screen went black.

I still miss him and remember him with warm fondness.