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I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
Ken Curtis
A young Fred Rogers got his first TV job as a backstage worker on The Gabby Hayes Show
The Gabby Hayes Show
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December 11, 1950
July 14, 1956
The Gabby Hayes Show is a general purpose western television series in which the film star and Roy Rogers confidante, George "Gabby" Hayes (1885-1969), narrated each episode, showed clips from old westerns, or told tall tales for a primarily children's audience. 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.
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!"
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