Gabby spins a yarn about a Bullwhip before showing scenes from a rare Tex Ritter western.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!" <br /><br />Directed by Vincent J. Donehue<br />Written by Jerome Coopersmith, Horton Foote<br />Starring: Wright King, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Andrew Duggan
