The Range Busters

The Range Busters series were popular afternoon fare for Fifties youngsters on television. Cincinnati's WCPO-TV had a Six Gun Theater every afternoon at 5 p.m. for the young cowpokes to enjoy while Mom was rustling up chow. Of course, we couldn't eat in front of the television set so sometimes we had to come to the table, without knowing what was going to happen to Crash, Dusty and Alibi. Why Corrigan did not gain control of the series and distribute them to television stations under the banner of Range Busters Theater is anyone's guess. He had a controlling interest in the films since they were shot on his Corriganville Ranch. At the time Corriganville was opened as an amusement park in 1949, the films were being shown to youngsters on television. To us kids born after WWII, they may have seemed a little dated with Old West cowboys fighting Nazi spies, but what the heck, it was only a movie. Like their contemporary series, the Trail Blazers (Maynard, Gibson and Steele), they provided great fun for all us kids in the Fifties.