The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Genre	Western
Directed by	Wesley Barry William Beaudine Thomas Carr Will Jason Louis King S. Roy Luby Jean Yarbrough
Starring	Guy Madison
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	113
Production
Producer(s)	William F. Broidy
Editor(s)	Carl Pierson S. Roy Luby
Cinematography	Henry Freulich John J. Martin William A. Sickner
Running time	30 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndication CBS (1955-1958) ABC (1957-1958)
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	April 15, 1951 – May 16, 1958

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.

Synopsis

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok starred Guy Madison as the legendary Old West lawman (in real life, also a gunfighter) Marshal James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, and Andy Devine as his comedy sidekick, Jingles. Devine and Madison also portrayed their roles on radio at the same time.

During the 1950s, several episodes of the show were spliced together and released as feature movies:

• The Matchmaking Marshal
• Phantom Trails
• Timber Country Trouble
• The Titled Tenderfoot
• Marshals In Disguise
• Outlaw's Son
• Trouble on the Trail
• The Two Gun Teacher
• Border City Rustlers
• Secret of Outlaw Flats
• Six Gun Decision
• Two Gun Marshal
• The Ghost of Crossbones Canyon
• Behind Southern Lines
• Trail of the Arrow
• The Yellow Haired Kid

Award nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category
1955	Emmy Award	Nominated	Best Western or Adventure Series

External links

• The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok at the Internet Movie Database
• The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok at TV.com