Television
The Gene Autry Show
Six-Shooter Sweepstakes
Flying A Pictures
Season 1, Episode 11 (1-11)
Production #12
Network: CBS
Running Time: 30 minutes
Black and White
Original Air Date:
Sunday, October 1, 1950
Sponsor: Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum
Brief Synopsis:
Champion helps Gene track down some outlaws when the "Wonder Horse" is entered in what turns out to be a fixed race.
Detailed Synopsis:
Gene Autry is in the middle of training Champion for the big Fourth of July Celebration race in Swiftwater when Sheriff Ewing rides in to deputize him. The sheriff needs extra help because the town is getting a little wild with holiday spirits. Gene's partner Hap Wallace and jockey Corky ride off to town to enter Champ themselves. At the roadside camp of Chuck Evans, an outlaw who has come to Swiftwater for a big robbery, Hap is talked into racing Champ against Chuck's horse Midnight. Hap bets Champ. Corky rides Champ, but the horse has been doctored, and so Chuck wins. Hap and Corky find out the race was fixed and are pursued by the outlaws. The jockey escapes and gets word to Gene, but Hap is captured. Gene has Corky fake a posse, while he rescues Hap. Later, the townspeople want to take Champ away from Chuck; Gene prevents it, but when Chuck calls him yellow, Gene whips him. On the day of the big race, Chuck sends his gang into town to blow the bank's safe where sixty thousand dollars in Indian reservation funds are stored. Gene, sensing the outlaw's plan, outwits them, captures Chuck after a chase and fight, and finally recovers his beloved "Wonder Horse."
Cast:
| Character: | Performer: |
| Gene Autry | Gene Autry |
| Hap Wallace | Pat Buttram |
| Caroline Ewing | Virginia Herrick |
| Sheriff Ewing | Harry Harvey |
| Chuck Evans | Kenne Duncan |
| Corky | Jamel Frazier |
| Greasy | Tom Neal |
| Rocky Bowman | Zon Murray |
| Champion | Champion, World's Wonder Horse |
Songs:
| There's a Rainbow on the Rio Colorado |
Gene Autry |
| Back in the Saddle Again | Jamel Frazier |
Crew:
| Executive in charge of Production |
Armand Schaefer |
| Directed by | Frank McDonald |
| Producer | Louis Gray |
| Screenplay | Norman S. Hall |
| Director of Photography | William Bradford |
| Film Editor | Sherman Rose |
| Musical Director | Carl Cotner |
| Music Supervisor | Irving Friedman |
| Recorded by | Glen Glenn Sound Company |
