The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok was a television series which ran from 1951 through 1958. It starred Guy Madison as the legendary Old West lawman (in real life, also a gunfighter), Marshal James Butler Hickok, and Andy Devine as his comedy sidekick, Jingles.

The show began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958. 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

Hickok rode Buckshot and 300-pound Jingles rode Joker. Jingles described Hickok as "the bravest, Strongest, fightingest U.S. Marshal in the whole West." And that's about it: he beat up all the bad guys and somehow kept his good looks.