[5] In 1964 the ABC network began airing the series on Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m.[6] Gene Autry came up with the idea of doing a children's western about an old judge, a teenaged cowboy, and his little sister.

[3] After an Indian attack on a wagon train Judge Wiley finds two survivors, a boy and a girl, traveling through the Black Hills.

[14] Despite Wileyville being a remote small town Buffalo Bill, Jr. and his family have encounters with Geronimo, Billy the Kid, Johnny Ringo, Wyatt Earp, and members of Jesse James' outlaw gang.

[15] A TV Guide reviewer wrote that it is nothing for Buffalo Bill, Jr. "to leap from his galloping mount atop an outlaw riding at top speed, knock him to the ground and best him in a slugfest.

"[16] A review in the trade publication Variety said that the program had "just enough guns, blundering and fisticuffs to satisfy most juve video viewers".

[18] Also in 1955 an advertisement in Life magazine offered a "leatherlike" Buffalo Bill, Jr. belt, with a "silvery" buckle for 25 cents and three Milky Way candy wrappers.