Erndog wrote:

I watched all the cowboy shows as a youngster, and even listened to them on the radio – oh God I’m old. Much to my mother’s chagrin, my dad and I used to drink a nice glass of butter milk and listen to all those radio shows from the late forties: Ozzie and Harriet, Fiber McGee and Molly, Amos and Andy, The Traveler, The Shadow, the Doors of the Inner Sanctum, and of course the Lone Ranger and Tonto (Git’um up Scout)  and the Cisco Kid and his side-kick Pancho (Hey Ceesco! Wait for me). I even remember some of the advertiser’s ditties.

I watched every cowboy I could and there were a lot on TV in the early fifties—a lot of those serial 20 minute reelers  played in theaters over the weeks to get folks to comeback. Lash La Rue (he carried a whip. Hop-along Cassidy, Gene Autry and gabby hays – (C’mon Gene, how ’bout some more Double Mint?), and of course Roy Rogers. Bonanza, Gun Smoke and the lot.

My personal favorite along those lines was "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock" with Guy Madison as Bill and Andy Devine as his sidekick "Jingles" (Hey Bill!  Wait fer me!).  I remember the intro to the show showed Madison, as Bill, riding his horse and firing his six-shooter.  The last shot was aimed directly at the camera.  I remember hiding beside my grandmother's couch as Bill fired that last shot, so Bill wouldn't "shoot" me.  That's what a six-year-old imagination does to you.