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    Comedy TV Shows - 1960s 3 Mins Read

    Pistols and Petticoats

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    1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (USA)
    26 x 30 minute Episodes

    This CBS period sitcom set in the 1870s in the Old West concerned the Hanks family; Grandpa (Douglas Fowley) and Grandma (Ruth McDevitt), Henrietta (Ann Sheridan) and her daughter Lucy (Carole Wells).

    Lucy had just returned from finishing school having spent quite a bit of time in the city and was at odds with the rest of her gun-slinging family.

    The family prided themselves on their toughness and ruled it over the town of Wretched, Colorado, much to the distress of clumsy and inept Sheriff Harold Sikes (Gary Vinson), who was courting miss Lucy and wished her kinfolk would stick to their crocheting and leave at least some of the bad guys to him.

    The Hanks also had rather unusual pets – a timber wolf called Bowser and a wildcat named Kitty.

    Other regulars on the series included crooked lawyer Jed Timmins (Stanley Adams); Buss Courtney (Robert Lowery) – the land baron seeking to obtain the Hanks’ ranch – and the Indians whom the family did regular battle with; Eagle Shadow (Lon Chaney Jnr), chief of the Kiowa Indians; his son, Grey Hawk (Marc Cavell); Great Bear (Jay Silverheels), chief of the Atona Indians; and his son, Little Bear (Alex Hentelhoff).

    Art Director Frank Arrigo moved the series locale – the town of Wretched in frontier Colorado – indoors. A large two-level indoor/outdoor western set was constructed on Stage 24 at Universal Studios to house the stone-and-wood home where the Hanks family lived, a two-level barn, and a dirt road flanked by real grass, disappearing over a hill for going “that-a-way”.

    Ann Sheridan died of cancer in January 1967 and while the season was completed using cuts of her from earlier episodes and voice doubles, Pistols and Petticoats came to an end on 11 March.

    Henrietta can fire a gun
    with one hand milkin’ the goat
    And hit a coyote on the run
    in Pistols n Petticoats

    The story goes that grandma is the best
    at shootin’ buttons off a rustler’s vest
    Grandpa kept his gun in trim
    nobody messed around with him

    Chasin’ bandits for them was fun
    from Bristol to Terre Haute
    Everyone in the west would run
    from Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats

    That’s the legend about the Hanks
    just the way she was wrote
    They kept busy protecting banks
    in Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats

    Henrietta Hanks 
    Ann Sheridan
    Grandpa Andrew Hanks

    Douglas Fowley
    Grandma Hanks

    Ruth McDevitt
    Lucy Hanks 

    Carole Wells
    Sheriff Harold Sikes 

    Gary Vinson
    Bernard “Buss” Courtney 

    Robert Lowery
    Jed Timmins
    Stanley Adams
    Chief Eagle Shadow 
    Lon Chaney Jnr
    Grey Hawk 

    Marc Cavell
    Chief Great Bear 

    Jay Silverheels
    Little Bear 

    Alex Hentelhoff

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