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Buffalo Bill Jr.

Buffalo Bill Jr.
Genre Western
Written by John K. Butler
Oliver Drake
Paul Franklin
Eric Freiwald
Paul Gangelin
Maurice Geraghty
Orville H. Hampton
Samuel Newman
Robert Schaefer
Directed by George Archainbaud
William A. Berke
Thomas Carr
John English
William McCarthy
Frank McDonald
Don McDougall
Ray Nazarro
Robert G. Walker
Starring Dick Jones
Harry Cheshire
Nancy Gilbert
Bob Woodward
Composer(s) Carl Cotner
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 42
Production
Executive producer(s) Gene Autry
Armand Schaefer
Producer(s) Louis Gray
Eric Jenson
Running time 30 mins.
Production company(s) Flying A Productions
Release
Original network Syndication
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original release March 1, 1955 – September 21, 1956

Buffalo Bill Jr. is an American western television series with Dick Jones (1927-2014) in the title role of a young fictional marshal in West Texas. The series aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956.

Jones was a native of Snyder in Scurry County south of Lubbock on the Texas South Plains; the series, however, is set in southwestern Texas near the Rio Grande River, the boundary with Mexico. In the series format, he is cast as Buffalo Bill Jr., with Nancy Gilbert as his younger sister, Calamity, who at the age of twelve is training to be a telegraph operator at the station at nearby Wiley Junction. The two were orphaned years earlier in the Black Hills of South Dakota following a massacre of their wagon train. The children were rescued and adopted by Judge Ben "Fair and Square" Wiley, played by Harry V. Cheshire, whom they often called "Uncle Ben". Cheshire was an older character actor originally from Emporia, Kansas. With a raspy voice, he frequently played the parts of bankers and western townsmen but occasionally outlaws too. Judge Wiley is also a diversified frontier businessman. The sign on his shop reads, "Wileyville General Store / Groceries - Hardware - Dry Goods / Judge Ben 'Fair 'n' Square' Wiley, Prop. / Justice of the Peace / Town Marshal / Physician & Surgeon / Blacksmith / Haircuts - Legal Advice / By Appointment Only". Wiley brings Bill and Calamity to fictional Wileyville, a Texas town which he founded himself.


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