Gabby Hayes Show | George ‘Gabby’ Hayes | Season 1, Episode 7 | Swan Dive
Hear a tall tale from Gabby Hayes about a Swan Dive, then thrill to the whip of Lash LaRue in a western adventure.
The Gabby Hayes Show is a Western television series in which the western film star and sidekick for John Wayne, Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers — George “Gabby” Hayes (1885–1969) — narrated each episode, showed clips from old westerns, and told TALL TALES. The first Hayes program ran on NBC at 5:15 p.m. Eastern for fifteen minutes three times per week and preceded the puppet series, Howdy Doody. It aired from December 11, 1950, to January 1, 1954. The second version was a half-hour broadcast on Saturday mornings, carried for only thirteen weeks from May 12 to July 14, 1956, on ABC.
The show was sponsored by Quaker Oats’ puffed cereals, which were “shot from guns”. As was common at the time, the host delivered the commercial. This often included Hayes firing a small cannon loaded with the cereal at the camera, while warning the viewers to “Watch out for your televisionary sets!”
Directed by Vincent J. Donehue
Written by Jerome Coopersmith, Horton Foote
Starring: Wright King, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Andrew Duggan
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