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only. Gene Autry and Roy Rogers both own and produce their own TV film series and, like Hoppy, are on the air the year around. With or without children, there is hardly an American citizen who draws breath who has not at least heard of The Lone Ranger. A radio veteran of the days when a loudspeaker was a conversation piece, he has been a TV fixture since 1949 in a series, now being repeated, of no less than 130 half-hour films. Clayton Moore played the title role in the first 78, with John Hart taking it for the last 52. The horse. Silver, has been changed twice, but Tonto (J. Silverheels, a bona fide Indian) and his nag, Pinto, have stuck it out for the entire 130. The four remaining “regulars” in TV’s Western library are, of course. The Cisco Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Kit Carson and The Range Rider. Like the others, they all are done on film. The Cisco Kid, in the person of Dun¬ can Renaldo, is now a veteran of 78- plus completed films and the current shooting schedule runs indefinitely. Wild Bill Hickok is Guy Madison’s particular claim stake, with Andy Devine running the customary comic interference. Kit Carson belongs to Bill Williams, a young Hollywood leading man who was going nowhere in particular when TV came along. The Range Rider, an offshoot of the Autry series and produced by Autry’s own Flying A Productions, is head¬ lined by Jack Mahoney. He rides the range and does good deeds, aided by his sidekick, Dick West. A relative newcomer to the cow¬ poke scene is a 26-episode film series called Cowboy G-Men employing the talents of old cowhand Russell Hay¬ den and new cowhand Jackie Coogan. Syndicated in some 24 cities, they ride the range on behalf of the Gov¬ ernment. The remaining Westerns dare to be a little different, although the peren¬ nial Gabby Hayes can hardly be called “different” in the light of his long and lucrative career as a walk¬ ing beard in motion pictures. His TV show is done chiefly on a live basis, Gabby telling tales of the Old West to the youngsters and slipping in a daily film insert to get some action into the proceedings. The other live Western, of course, is CBS’ Action in the Afternoon, a soap opera with chaps, starring Jack Valentine, Blake Ritter and Mary Elaine Watts and originating from the network’s “Western” location in Phila¬ delphia, a likely spot. Genuinely different and several notches above all the others in his¬ torical content is Death Valley Days. Actually, it is a dramatic series with a Western background, filmed almost entirely on location in Death Valley itself and telling authentic stories. There’s even a she-Western, Annie Oakley, that will start in January. Eastern Western: in Philadelphio, cast of Action in the After¬ noon enacts some basic scenes of TV's only live horse opera.