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2. Hopalong Cassidy (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   The Hopalong Cassidy film series ended in 1948, due to declining revenues, and their star William Boyd, who was now 53 years old, was regarded as a film star of the past. . However, Boyd thought Hopalong Cassidy might have a future in television, and spent $350,000 to obtain the rights to his old films; [1] he sold or mortgaged almost everything he owned to raise the mon

3. Hopalong Cassidy (radio program) - Wikipedia

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   CBS produced an audition episode of a Hopalong Cassidy program that was broadcast in the summer of 1941 as part of Forecast, a series of pilots for potential programs. [2] After that, little, if anything, was heard about a Hopalong Cassidy radio production until five years later. An item in Radio Life in 1946 commented, "Radio's gone western ...

4. Hopalong Cassidy - Wikipedia

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   Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.

5. Hopalong Cassidy (film series) - Wikipedia

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   This remained the situation until the mid-1990s, after many Cassidy fans had died, when the company made available to The Western Channel a package series of restored and cleaned negative-based prints of the films to cable TV. These remained available on that channel until 2000, when they were again withdrawn.

6. Russell Hayden - Wikipedia

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   Hayden's screen debut was in Hills of Old Wyoming (1937), a Hopalong Cassidy film. [2] In 27 films, [3] [self-published source] he played Lucky Jenkins, [2] one of a trio of heroes in the Cassidy Westerns starring William Boyd. In 1941 Columbia Pictures hired Hayden to appear with its leading cowboy star Charles Starrett in eight Westerns ...

7. Westerns on television - Wikipedia

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   The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.

8. 'The Partridge Family' through the years: See the cast then ...

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   The fictional family stole America's heart in the early 1970s, and breakout star Cassidy is still known as one of TV's all-time biggest heartthrobs. But similarly beloved were his fellow cast ...

9. William Boyd (actor) - Wikipedia

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   In 1935, Boyd was offered the supporting role of Red Connors in the movie Hop-Along Cassidy, but he asked to be considered for the title role and won it. [6] The original character of Hopalong Cassidy, written by Clarence E. Mulford for pulp magazines, was changed from a hard-drinking, rough-living, redheaded wrangler to a cowboy hero who did not smoke, swear or drink alcohol (he drank ...