The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958.
The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958,
and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
Like Kit Carson, a Wild West adventure series,
targeted mainly for the kids.
Guy Madison and Andy Devine were perfect for one another,
similar to the partnership of Roy Rogers and his sidekick.
This was really the pinnacle of Guys career.#
Duke fans might well recognize the filming locations,
Big Bear Lake,San Bernardino,
and the usual ranches,
such as Gene Autry's Melody Farm
and Ray Corrigan's, Corriganville
QuoteDisplay MoreWWWWild Bill WWait For Me!!!, 24 January 2008
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York
That Andy Devine always yelling at Wild Bill Hickok
to slow down and allow his to catch up. Hickok's appaloosa Buckshot
had a lot less weight to carry than Andy's trusty pinto steed Joker,
given the handicap allowance, Andy was right to complain.
This television series had nothing to do with the story of the real
James Butler Hickok, nicknamed Wild Bill by his contemporaries.
You'd hardly know from this show that Hickok would meet an abrupt
demise in Deadwood.
Or that his famous tenure as Marshal of Abilene lasted slightly over a year.
Guy Madison was a fine Wild Bill, a cowboy hero in the tradition
of movie cowboy heroes and Andy who had been doing sidekick roles
for Roy Rogers in his feature films just prior to signing on for this television series
was the comic relief as Wild Bill's deputy Jingles Jones.
We all know how good a marshal Andy would have been,
we have only The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance for reference.
I can still hear Andy yelling impatiently at Wild Bill to slow down
at the end of every episode.
It was a tag line like the one where some knowledgeable citizen
identified that masked man as the Lone Ranger.
Still I wouldn't mind if TVLand channel would acquire this series
and run some of these. I don't care if they're black and white,
no one else should either.
