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The Cisco Kid (TV series)

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The Cisco Kid
Duncan Renaldo as the Cisco Kid, with Diablo
Genre	Western
Written by	O. Henry J. Benton Cheney Barry Cohon
Directed by	Paul Landres Lambert Hillyer
Starring	Duncan Renaldo Leo Carrillo
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	156 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers	Frederick Ziv Philip N. Krasne
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Ziv Television Programs
Distributor	Ziv Television Programs (1950s) Walter Schwimmer (1960s and 70s) Rhodes Productions (1980s) Peter Rodgers Organization (current)
Release
Original network	First-run syndication
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 5, 1950 – March 22, 1956

The Cisco Kid is a 1950–1956 half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, the Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. The series was syndicated to individual stations, and was popular with children.^[1] Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados wanted for unspecified crimes,^[2] but were viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help.^[3] It was also the first television series to be filmed in color,^[4] although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.

There were 156 half-hour episodes filmed between 1950 and 1956.^[1] The show was never run as a network series and was instead sold to local stations.^[5]^: 187 During the series’ initial run it was seen on 78 stations in the United States. In 1956 the series was dubbed into foreign languages and distributed to twenty countries, including France, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina and the Dominican Republic.^[6]

Synopsis[edit]

The Cisco Kid was a charming ladies’ man, dressed in a highly embroidered black outfit, and his sidekick Pancho brought humor to the series with his heavily accented comments.^[1] Duncan Renaldo said of Leo Carrillo playing Pancho: “His accent was so exaggerated that when we finished a picture, no one in the cast or crew could talk normal English any more.”^[7] The Cisco Kid rode a horse named Diablo, and Pancho rode Loco.^[8]

Cast[edit]

Duncan Renaldo as the Cisco Kid
Leo Carrillo as Pancho, Cisco’s sidekick

Episodes[edit]

Main article: List of The Cisco Kid episodes

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
First aired	Last aired
	1	26	September 5, 1950	February 20, 1951
	2	26	September 3, 1951	February 19, 1952
	3	26	August 3, 1952	March 8, 1953
	4	26	October 1, 1953	March 25, 1954
	5	26	September 25, 1954	March 17, 1955
	6	26	October 6, 1955	March 22, 1956

Production[edit]

There was little gunplay in the series. Cisco usually shot the gun out of the villain’s hand, and Pancho often disarmed the bad guys using a bullwhip.^[1] There was plenty of action in the series, and Renaldo often did his own stunts, which resulted in several injuries. In one episode Renaldo was to dodge a 65-pound papier-mâché boulder, which struck him in the head, breaking two neck vertebrae. He was paralyzed for two months.^[6]

Most of the series’ location work was done at Pioneertown, California.^[8]

References[edit]

^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c ^d Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present, pp. 187, 188 (Seventh Edition), Ballantine Books, 1999
^ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children’s Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946–1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 121–122. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
^ Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 165
^ Interview with Frederick W. Ziv, in: Irv Broughton, Producers on Producing: The Making of Film and Television, McFarland, 1986, p. 18. ISBN 978-0-89950-199-4.
^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
^ Jump up to:^a ^b Grossman, Gary H., Saturday Morning TV, pp. 190–191, Dell Publishing Company, 1981
^ Stern, Jane and Michael, Way Out West, pp. 21–22, HarperCollins, 1993
^ Jump up to:^a ^b Summers, Neil and Crowley, Roger M., The Official TV Western Round-Up Book, p. 85, The Old West Shop Publishing, 2002

External links[edit]

The Cisco Kid at IMDb

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