Cowboy G-Men

Cowboy G-Men

1952
Cowboy G-Men
Cowboy G-Men

Cowboy G-Men

6.4 | NR | en | Western

Cowboy G-Men is an American Western series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.

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EP39  The California Bullets
Jun. 13,1953
The California Bullets

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EP38  High Heeled Boots
Jun. 06,1953
High Heeled Boots

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EP37  Double Crossed
May. 30,1953
Double Crossed

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EP36  The Woman Mayor
May. 23,1953
The Woman Mayor

Pat and Stoney are ordered to Nugget City to tear down a toll-gate on federal land. They are opposed by a woman mayor who uses the gate to keep out riff-raff and raise money for growing town's needs.

EP35  Stolen Dynamite
May. 16,1953
Stolen Dynamite

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EP34  Indian Traders
May. 09,1953
Indian Traders

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EP33  Sidewinder
May. 02,1953
Sidewinder

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EP32  Spring The Trap
Apr. 25,1953
Spring The Trap

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EP31  Sawdust Swindle
Apr. 18,1953
Sawdust Swindle

Stoney and the son of the local Indian chief are attacked while escorting a gold shipment meant for the tribe. The nuggets are stolen, the Indian killed and Stoney is arrested for the murder and theft. With his partner in jail, Pat endeavors to learn who is behind the robbery and the previous thefts of tools and supplies meant for the Indians before the tribe returns to the warpath to avenge the death of their kinsman.

EP30  Empty Mailbags
Apr. 11,1953
Empty Mailbags

While investigating a mail fraud case, the G-men search for two missing postal inspectors. Stoney: Jackie Coogan. Pat: Russell Hayden.

EP29  Ghost Town Mystery
Apr. 04,1953
Ghost Town Mystery

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EP28  Hush Money
Mar. 28,1953
Hush Money

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EP27  Hangfire
Mar. 21,1953
Hangfire

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EP26  Silver Fraud
Mar. 14,1953
Silver Fraud

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EP25  Safe Crackers
Mar. 07,1953
Safe Crackers

Pat and Stoney are ordered to break up a safe cracking gang preying on Colorado banks handling government silver bullion.

EP24  Gypsy Traders
Feb. 28,1953
Gypsy Traders

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EP23  General Delivery
Feb. 21,1953
General Delivery

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EP22  General Delivery
Feb. 21,1953
General Delivery

Pat and Stoney are assigned to investigate reports of an impostor posing as a U.S. Secret Service agent operating in Washington territory. In the guise of a government law officer, the man is shutting down all rivals of a saloon keeper's operating a crooked gambling establishment.

EP21  Rawhiders
Feb. 14,1953
Rawhiders

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EP20  The Run Down
Feb. 07,1953
The Run Down

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EP19  Rawhide Gold
Jan. 31,1953
Rawhide Gold

Pat and Stoney track a killer who uses a shotgun on his victims to a town run with an iron hand by a sheriff who makes his own laws.

EP18  Silver Shotgun
Jan. 24,1953
Silver Shotgun

Pat and Stoney are sent to Oklahoma to assist the state authorities to investigate a hanging judge. Stoney's plan to go undercover backfires when he is framed for murder himself.

EP17  Hang The Jury
Jan. 17,1953
Hang The Jury

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EP16  Ridge Of Ghosts
Jan. 10,1953
Ridge Of Ghosts

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EP15  Mysterious Decoy
Jan. 03,1953
Mysterious Decoy

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EP14  Frontier Smugglers
Dec. 27,1952
Frontier Smugglers

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EP13  Salted Mines
Dec. 20,1952
Salted Mines

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EP12  Ghost Bushwacker
Dec. 13,1952
Ghost Bushwacker

When the money in a bank vault is mysteriously replaced with counterfeit money, Pat and Stoney are sent to investigate.

EP11  Koniackers
Dec. 06,1952
Koniackers

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EP10  Gunslingers
Nov. 29,1952
Gunslingers

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EP9  Bounty Jumpers
Nov. 22,1952
Bounty Jumpers

The G-Men try to clear a cattle buyer for the government who is accused of buying stolen stock.

EP8  Running Iron
Nov. 15,1952
Running Iron

Someone has leaked secret information on land needed for a railroad right-of-way and Pat and Stoney are sent to investigate.

EP7  Pixilated
Nov. 08,1952
Pixilated

Pat and Stoney are sent to help investigate a suspicious, possibly man-made malaria epidemic at a vital tungsten mine in Mexico.

EP6  Beware! No Trespassing
Nov. 01,1952
Beware! No Trespassing

An unscrupulous veterinarian starts an anthrax epidemic so he can sell serum to the ranchers for ten times it's normal cost.

EP5  Center Fire
Oct. 18,1952
Center Fire

The Chippewa Indians around Lac du Flambeau are being victimized by unscrupulous lumber brokers.

EP4  The Secret Mission
Oct. 04,1952
The Secret Mission

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EP3  The Golden Wolf
Sep. 27,1952
The Golden Wolf

Pat and Stoney take time out from their duties to try and collect the bounty posted on a legendary golden wolf that roams the Colorado foothills. A couple of wolf hunters don't take kindly to a pair of amateur hunters horning in on their range and attempt to drive the G-Men away before they can capture or kill their quarry.

EP2  Chinaman's Chance
Sep. 20,1952
Chinaman's Chance

An outlaw gang is stealing gold from Chinese placer miners, then driving off their claims with outrageous taxes. Because they're Chinese, they can't sue the local government agents. With Stoney posing as a Chinese miner and Pat pretending to be a representative of an Eastern engineering company, the U.S. government tries to bring an end to the careers of the outlaw gang and crooked state government agents.

EP1  Ozark Gold
Sep. 13,1952
Ozark Gold

Pat and Stoney are sent to the Ozarks to recover gold bullion stolen from the Army.

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Released: 1952-09-13 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Cowboy G-Men is an American Western series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.

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Cast

Jackie Coogan , Russell Hayden , Jackie Cooper

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Reviews

Gary R. Peterson COWBOY G-MEN presages THE WILD, WILD WEST by over a decade. This little-known 1952-53 series shares with its cult favorite successor the inventive concept of two government men in the Old West investigating those crimes too big for mere marshals and sheriffs. Their authority supersedes that of state and local law enforcement and they carry credentials requiring their cooperation.With all that power and authority, and dangerous cases to crack involving mass murderers and merciless outlaw gangs, Pat Gallagher and Stoney Crockett could be deadly serious and cynical men, but as played with aplomb by Russell Hayden and Jackie Coogan there's a lighthearted jocularity that makes the show entertaining and bubbly. Hayden and Coogan enjoy an easy rapport and make a great team, not unlike Jim West and Artemus Gordon.Speaking of Artemus, master of disguise, Phil Arnold in a regularly recurring role as Zerbo gives a foretaste of Arte's forte. In "Spring the Trap," for example, Zerbo is an actor with a one-man show who employs his make-up skills to Pat Gallagher, disguising him as a criminal so he can infiltrate a band of thieves.Phil Arnold's primary purpose, however, was comic relief, which abounds when he's paired with Jackie Coogan. In the aforementioned episode "Spring the Trap," Zerbo asks Stoney to join him on stage and the two old friends perform a full song-and-dance routine, warbling "The Bald-Headed Boys from Paducah" while taking pratfalls and pulling toupees from their shiny pates.It's great to see Russell Hayden in a lead role, and he proves himself capable of doing the heavy lifting. Nonetheless he'll always be Hoppy's sidekick Lucky Jenkins to me. Jackie Coogan wears well the mantle of sidekick here, playing an integral role in most stories and giving and receiving his share of lumps in the brawls that highlight many episodes. It is unfortunate that for many fans of vintage television Coogan is known only as Uncle Fester on THE ADDAMS' FAMILY, a fun role to be sure, but a limited one. His talents were much better displayed on COWBOY G-MEN, where he was able to perform drama and action, as well as comedy.If COWBOY G-MEN was a kids' show, it was one refreshingly free from meddling mothers' groups and hand-wringing psychologists. Characters are routinely gunned down or die horrible deaths, like being sucked down into quicksand. In "The Sidewinder," the criminal holds a grandfather and his beautiful granddaughter hostage, steals their gold, and tries to force a kiss from the granddaughter that approaches sexual assault. Certainly not the stuff of later, squeaky clean kids' shows, such as the last couple seasons of SUPERMAN.One shortcoming of the series is continuity. When and for how long exactly were Pat and Stoney riding about solving crimes and busting up outlaw gangs? Three episodes provide a span of at least 12 years, occurring in the years 1878 ("The Sidewinder"), 1888 ("Spring the Trap"), and early 1890s ("The Ghost Town Mystery," which includes a reference to the Sherman Act of 1890). Continuity snafus are not a capital crime, however, as even the iconic Western series THE VIRGINIAN was plagued with a fuzzy chronology (e.g., the first season episode "It Tolls for Thee" is set in 1884 and another, "Riff-Raff," is set in 1898!).It's a shame COWBOY G-MEN lasted a mere one season and left us only 39 episodes, too few for syndication, which is why I suspect so few Western fans are familiar with the series. Hayden went on to produce the 1957-59 series 26 MEN that is at a glance similar in featuring an elite corps of men dedicated to tackling threats too big for local law enforcement. Closer to 26 MEN would be MACKENZIE'S RAIDERS (1958-59), which I've seen described as an Old West foreshadowing of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE (not quite, from the few episodes I've seen). COWBOY G-MEN suffers too from a lack of respect, with poor quality prints spread out across numerous releases by Mill Creek and other bargain bin distributors. I hold out hope that Timeless/Shout Factory will corral all 39 episodes and release a complete series set.Okay, so Pat and Stoney don't have the glamour and glitz that Jim and Arte had (a tricked-out train car, a memorable arch-nemesis like Dr. Loveless, or those superspy gadgets and gizmos), but in watching the two Cowboy G-Men gallop across the Southwest I can't help but be convinced they blazed the trail that West and Gordon trod into television history a decade later on THE WILD, WILD WEST.
Mike Newton A previous reviewer pointed out that G-Men was not a term used in the old West during the time period in which the program was set. No kidding. They did have U.S. Marshals hired by the government to rule territories that had not officially been set up. In the Golden Age of B westerns, there was a series called the "Rough Riders" which co-starred veteran Westerns stars Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton. However the term "Rough Riders" did not gain popularity until Teddy Roosevelt organized a group of cowboys and wranglers to charge up San Juan Hill. No doubt the word G-Men because kids of the Fifties were familiar with it. There were at least three radio programs dealing with the FBI at that time. Gang Busters, F.B.I. in Peace and War and This is Your F.B.I, Russell Hayden was already known to kids as one of Hoppy's sidekicks in the movies and Jackie Coogan was known to adults who recall his childhood movies. In fact, anytime Coogan's name is mentioned, I first think of Cowboy G-Men and Stoney Crockett before I think of Uncle Festus.
bkoganbing Someone was not too up on his American history in the creation of this show which had G-Men, the slang term for FBI agents out there in boots and chaps in the old west. The Federal Bureau Of Investigation was not founded until the Theodore Roosevelt Administration under Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte. And yes, he was one of THE Bonapartes. That would be the 20th Century.In fact the Department of Justice was created in the Grant Administration, an achievement not often credited to that beleaguered president. But it had no investigative arm operating out of Washington. Such investigations they did do were under the supervision of whatever US Attorneys the jurisdiction fell.So basically what I'm saying is that Cowboy G-Men had no basis in fact whatsoever. But as a little kid of five when this show premiered, these things didn't prevent me from enjoying the adventures of Russell Hayden and Jackie Coogan every week. Phil Arnold was in about 60% of the shows and his scenes with Jackie Coogan were definite comic relief.Not the best quality westerns, but enjoyable nonetheless.