I'll admit I've never watched the tv series, but I have listened to a few episodes of the radio program. According to the IMDB entry for the Hopalong Cassidy tv series (1952-54), Edgar Buchanan portrayed Red Connors in 40 of 49 episodes. The entry provided the following comment: "Hoppie's old movies had proved very popular TV fare from 1945 on. This series followed the same plot format: black-clad, grey-haired Hopalong and his horse Topper catching bad guys with Red Connors for comic relief."
Anyway, I really had fun under my thinking bucket searching out the answer on this one. Thanks, Orville. <<Someone mentioned Edgar Buchanan. While Edgar Buchanan played in quite a few cowboy movies, he was never what you would call a sidekick. In each movie, he played with a different person, and he played different roles, none of them a "sidekick".>> _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
