The Cisco Kid (TV series)

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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. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados wanted for unspecified crimes, but were viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s. The 156 half-hour episodes were filmed between 1950 and 1956. The show was never run as a network series and was instead sold to local stations. 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 20 countries, including France, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina...

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