{{Short description|American television series}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | genre = Western | writer = {{Plainlist| * Buckley Angell * Todhunter Ballard * William R. Cox * Henry B. Donovan * Orville H. Hampton * Monroe Manning * Michael Raison }} | director = {{Plainlist| * Thor L. Brooks * Reg Browne * George Cahan * Harold Daniels * Paul Landres }} | starring = {{Plainlist| * Russell Hayden * Jackie Coogan }} | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 39 | producer = Henry B. Donovan | editor = {{Plainlist| * Thor L. Brooks * Seth Larsen * Carl Pingitore }} | cinematography = {{Plainlist| * Gordon Avil * Kenneth Peach * Henry Sharp * Harold E. Stine * William P. Whitley }} | company = Telemount-Mutual Productions | runtime = 24–26 minutes | channel = Syndication | first_aired = {{Start date|1952|09|13}} | last_aired = {{End date|1953|06|13}} }}
'''''Cowboy G-Men''''' is an American Western television series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.
==Synopsis== Russell Hayden and Jackie Coogan star as Pat Gallagher and Stoney Crockett, a pair of government agents operating in the American West in the 1870s.<ref name=st>Erickson, Hal (1989). ''Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|0-7864-1198-8}}. P. 94.</ref> 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.<ref name=etvs>Terrace, Vincent (2011). ''Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-6477-7}}. P. 216.</ref> Hand-picked agents Gallagher and Crockett dealt with "counterfeiters, smugglers and robbers and protecting property owners".<ref>{{cite news |title=Cowboy G-Men Romp Across TV |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wichita-falls-times/138350144/ |access-date=January 9, 2024 |work=The Wichita Daily Times |date=March 1, 1953 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109033405/https://www.newspapers.com/article/wichita-falls-times/138350144/ |archive-date=January 9, 2024 |page=94|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
Other actors who appeared in ''Cowboy G-Men'' included Claudia Barrett{{r|lw|page1=19}} and Virginia Herrick.<ref name="lw">{{cite book |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Michael G. |last2=Magers |first2=Boyd |title=Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s |date=August 1, 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0796-2 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_RTCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Cowboy+G-Men%22&pg=PA88 |access-date=January 9, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
''Cowboy G-Men'' was based on a story by Henry B. Donovan and featured the writing of such Western fiction authors as Todhunter Ballard<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ballard |first=Todhunter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2sA8X_kWI3kC |title=Hollywood Troubleshooter: W.T. Ballard's Bill Lennox Stories |date=1985 |publisher=Popular Press |isbn=978-0-87972-317-0 |pages=155 |language=en}}</ref> and Louis L'Amour.<ref name="llft">{{cite book |last1=Andreychuk |first1=Ed |title=Louis L'Amour on Film and Television |date=March 8, 2010 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5717-5 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICrqx0NOLjoC&dq=%22Cowboy+G-Men%22&pg=PA44 |access-date=January 9, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
==Episode list== {{Episode table |total_width=| background=8B0000|overall=|title=|airdate=|episodes=
{{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=1 |Title=Ozark Gold |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|09|13}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=2 |Title=Chinaman's Chance |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|09|20}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=3 |Title=The Golden Wolf |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|09|27}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=4 |Title=The Secret Mission |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|04}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=5 |Title=Chippewa Indians |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|11}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=6 |Title=Center Fire |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|18}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=7 |Title=Beware! No Trespassing |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|01}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=8 |Title=Pixilated |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|08}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=9 |Title=Running Iron |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|15}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=10 |Title=Bounty Jumpers |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|22}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=11 |Title=Gunslingers |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|29}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=12 |Title=Koniackers (Counterfeiters) |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|06}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=13 |Title=Ghost Bushwacker |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|13}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=14 |Title=Salted Mines |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|20}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=15 |Title=Frontier Smugglers |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|27}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=16 |Title=Mysterious Decoy |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|03}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=17 |Title=Ridge of Ghosts |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|10}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=18 |Title=Hang the Jury |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|17}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=19 |Title=Silver Shotgun |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|24}}}} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=20 |Title=Rawhide Gold |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|31}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=21 |Title=The Run Down |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|07}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=22 |Title=Rawhiders |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|14}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=23 |Title=General Delivery |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|21}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=24 |Title=Gypsy Traders |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|28}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=25 |Title=Safe Crackers |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|07}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=26 |Title=Silver Fraud |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|14}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=27 |Title=Hangfire |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|21}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=28 |Title=Hush Money |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|28}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=29 |Title=Ghost Town Mystery |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|04}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=30 |Title=Empty Mailbags |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|11}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=31 |Title=Sawdust Swindle |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|18}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=32 |Title=Spring the Trap |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|25}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=33 |Title=Sidewinder |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|02}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=34 |Title=Indian Trader |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|09}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=35 |Title=Stolen Dynamite |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|16}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=36 |Title=The Woman or |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|23}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=37 |Title=Double Crossed |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|30}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=38 |Title=High Heeled Boots |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|06|06}} }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber=39 |Title=The California Bullets |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|06|13}} }}
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==Production== Henry B. Donovan was the producer for Telemount-Mutual Productions, a TV production company he established in the late 1940s under the "Telemount Pictures" branding (it would eventually become "Mutual Television Productions" before finally taking on the Telemount-Mutual name), and the series was distributed by United Artists-TV Distribution.<ref name=bb1>{{cite magazine |date=November 21, 1953 |page=8 |title=Map P. A. Troupe Plan For 'Cowboy G-Men' Pix |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Cowboy+G-Men%22&pg=PA8 |accessdate=January 9, 2024 }}</ref> Directors included Lesley Selander.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andreychuk |first1=Ed |title=The Lone Ranger on Radio, Film and Television |date=January 13, 2018 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2971-1 |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uY5FDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Cowboy+G-Men%22&pg=PA113 |access-date=January 9, 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The series was filmed in color<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 5, 1954 |title=Prospective Sponsors May Pick Their Stars |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5h4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Cowboy+G-Men%22&pg=PA8 |magazine=Billboard |page=6 |accessdate=January 9, 2024}}</ref> "with black and white dupes for present day TV release".<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |date=October 6, 1951 |title='Cowboy' Pic Series Starts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oCEEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Door+With+No+Name%22+NBC&pg=PA10 |magazine=Billboard |page=8 |accessdate=March 3, 2025}}</ref> The Jack Ingram Ranch was used for exterior shots, while interior scenes were filmed in California studios.<ref name=":0" /> Taystee Bread sponsored the series in 24 cities.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=October 31, 1953 |page=7 |title=Distribution Sought for Cowboy G-Men |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Cowboy+G-Men%22&pg=PA12-IA5 |accessdate=January 9, 2024 }}</ref>
Hayden and Coogan did their own stunts on the show. Episodes were filmed in groups of 13, with three episodes typically completed within seven days—four days on location, two in a studio and "one day for the 'chases'".<ref name="slp">{{cite news |last1=Freeman |first1=Dale |title=They Came From Thataway |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-leader-and-press/138350529/ |access-date=January 9, 2024 |work=Springfield Leader and Press |date=November 27, 1953 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240109034116/https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-leader-and-press/138350529/ |archive-date=January 9, 2024 |page=11|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> Location shots were filmed in the San Fernando Valley.<ref name="slp" />
==Release==
=== Home media === Timeless Media Group released a 10 episode best-of set on DVD in Region 1 on October 26, 2008.<ref>Cowboy G-Men [https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-G-Men-Russell-Hayden/dp/B001E90DSK Timeless Media Group Release] at Amazon.com</ref>
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.
=== International === In Japan, ''Cowboy G-Men'' was the first show to be dubbed in Japanese in 1956.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Fu |first1=Poshek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8TADwAAQBAJ |title=The Cold War and Asian Cinemas |last2=Yip |first2=Man-Fung |date=2019-11-28 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-75729-7 |pages=30 |language=en |quote=[M]any of the early drama shows on Japanese television were bought cheaply from the U.S. The pioneers were Cowboy G-men on NTV in 1956 and The Lone Ranger on TBS in 1958.}}</ref>
==References== <references/>
==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0044254}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cowboy G-Men}} Category:1952 American television series debuts Category:1953 American television series endings Category:Television series set in the 1870s Category:Black-and-white American television shows Category:English-language American television shows Category:First-run syndicated television programs in the United States Category:Television series by CBS Studios Category:1950s Western (genre) television series