Hey Cisco! Hey Pancho!

I bought a boxset of TV shows called Classic TV Westerns 300 Episodes. It is, as it says, a collection of old Westerns from the 50s and 60s, most of which I think are public domain.

One of the shows is called The Cisco Kid.

It is about a sorta classic kids Western mold, a brave western caballero who wears a silly sequined outfit and has a fat and oafish sidekick with a silly accent. I looked it up on the internets and found that it was orignally a radio show which had over 600 episodes, On TV it ran for 6 years, and had over 150 episodes.

My favorite part is that at the begining of the show it says O. Henry’s classic character, the Cisco Kid. But it turns out, “in O. Henry’s original story, he was a non-Hispanic character and a cruel outlaw.” Which is pretty much the complete opposite of this show.

It is in color, which is novel, and the stories are thin but fun. Here is an episode at the Internet Archive.

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