Filmed by Revue Productions, the program originally aired on CBS from October 5, 1961, until September 20, 1962.

[2][3] Episodes depicted interactions of circus personnel with each other and with outsiders whom they encountered as they traveled from one town to another via wagon train.

[1] Richard F. Shepard, writing in The New York Times, described the initial episode as "a cross between an adult Western and a horse-drawn study of mental cases.

"[10] Noting that the episode dealt with one lion tamer who was an alcoholic and one who was sadistic, he wrote, "If frontier circuses ran on and on like this, it's small wonder that the rodeo caught on out West.

"[10] A review of that same episode in the trade publication Variety commented, "The sawdust-and-sagebrush saga is strictly a potboiler, and its only saving grace is that it doesn't pretend to be anything more.

[9] Timeless Media Group released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 on April 20, 2010.