''Cowboy G-Men'' is an American

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series that aired in

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from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.

Synopsis

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and former child actor

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(who would later perform as

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on ''

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'') star as Pat Gallagher and Stoney Crockett, respectively, a pair of government agents operating in the

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in the 1870s.Erickson, Hal (1989). ''Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 94. Television actor

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portrayed Zerbo, a sometimes associate of Gallagher and Crockett. Gallagher typically was undercover as a

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, while Crockett took the role of a wrangler.Terrace, Vincent (2011). ''Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 216. ''Cowboy G-Men'' was based on a story by Henry B. Donovan and featured the writing of such western

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authors as

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. Unusually for its time, the series was filmed in color; however, it appears that only black-and-white prints have ever been aired on television.

Episode list

Home media

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released a 10 episode best-of set on DVD in Region 1 on October 26, 2008.Cowboy G-Me
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at Amazon.com Alpha Home Entertainment has released collections of ''Cowboy G-Men'' episodes on DVD. Each volume contains 4 episodes from the series. Six DVDs have been published from 2006 to 2011.

In other countries

In Japan, ''Cowboy G-Men'' was the first show to be dubbed in Japanese in 1956. The late veteran voice actor

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voiced all the characters including the female characters.

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