Season: 1
Episode Number: 1
Release Year: 1956
Runtime: 30 minutes
Television
Filmed In Color
Genre: Western
Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
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Horses: Thunder
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Plot: A pilot, “Gun Trouble Valley” was filmed in Lone Pine, in the Alabama Hills, and the guest star was edgy James Best, playing a married rancher having some trouble with the local criminal element until Red Ryder and sidekicks Little Beaver and the Duchess come to the rescue. By the late 50s, television schedules were glutted with western series, and old fashioned kids westerns like Red Ryder were giving way to an entirely new crop of “adult” western series, more drama than action.
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Sources: Museum Of Western Film History Archives, IMDb