Cowboy G-Men | |
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Genre | Western |
Written by | Buckley Angell Todhunter Ballard William R. Cox Henry B. Donovan Orville H. Hampton Monroe Manning Michael Raison |
Directed by | Thor L. Brooks Reg Browne George Cahan Harold Daniels Paul Landres |
Starring |
Russell Hayden Jackie Coogan |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Henry B. Donovan |
Cinematography | Gordon Avil Kenneth Peach Henry Sharp Harold E. Stine William P. Whitley |
Editor(s) | Thor L. Brooks Seth Larsen Carl Pingitore |
Running time | 24–26 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Syndication |
Picture format | Black-and-white |
Audio format | Monoaural |
Original release | September 13, 1952 | – June 13, 1953
Cowboy G-Men is an American Western series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.
Russell Hayden and former child actor Jackie Coogan star as Pat Gallagher and Stoney Crockett, respectively, a pair of government agents operating in the American West in the 1870s. Television actor Phil Arnold portrayed Zerbo, a sometimes associate of Gallagher and Crockett. Gallagher typically was undercover as a ranch hand, while Crockett took the role of a wrangler.
Cowboy G-Men was based on a story by Henry B. Donovan and featured the writing of such western fiction authors as Todhunter Ballard.
Timeless Media Group released a 10 episode best-of set on DVD in Region 1 on October 26, 2008.
Alpha Home Entertainment has released collections of Cowboy G-Men episodes on DVD. Each volume contains 4 episodes from the series. Six DVDs have been published from 2006 to 2011.
In Japan, Cowboy G-Men was the first show to be dubbed in Japanese in 1956. The late veteran voice actor Junpei Takiguchi voiced all the characters including the female characters.