Richard Sale (whose Daffy Dill/Candid Jones story "Flash!" appears in the June AHMM - details HERE, and about whom I have blabbed at length - HERE) created and produced this Desilu series with his wife May Loos. He also wrote some (if not many) of the 34 episodes that ran in 1958 and '59. Most of those episode are now on YouTube (that's cool), but they've been stripped of opening and closing credits (that's trash). Still, we can be pretty ding dang sure that Sale wrote this one.
"Yancy...Yancy Derringer!" I can hear the theme song in my head even now. One of my favorite shows when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to hear it in your ears, James, there are versions on TV WESTERNS Vol. 2 & 8.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80s, I got to hang out with Jock Mahoney for a couple of hours at a Roy Rogers festival in Portsmouth, OH. He was quite a character (and he spent a lot of time making fun of the size of fellow guest Lash LaRue's "whip".)
ReplyDeleteLoved this show!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't watching much TV in those days, but I did watch this one. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteBought the DVD's a while back and thoroughly enjoyed the viewing.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I ever missed an episode.
ReplyDeleteI was also a faithful viewer.
ReplyDeleteMy wife's favorite show when she was young -- er, I mean, younger. She named her German shepherd Yancy.
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