The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series that ran for eight seasons from April 15, 1951, through September 24, 1958.

The Screen Gems series began in syndication,[1] but ran on CBS from June 5, 1955,[2] through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.

[citation needed] The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok starred Guy Madison as the legendary Old West lawman (in real life, also a gunfighter) United States Marshal James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, and Andy Devine as his comedy sidekick, Jingles P. Jones.

[5] In 1957 Screen Gems bought the Broidy company's assets, which included 100 Hickok episodes on film.

[7] During the 1950s, several episodes of the television show were spliced together and released as 16 feature films by Allied Artists.