# The Cisco Kid (1950)

> Two charming wanted outlaws, the Cisco Kid and his jovial sidekick Pancho, ride across the frontier helping the poor against corrupt lawmen.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/16681

## Facts

- Seasons: 6
- Episodes: 156
- Episode runtime: 30 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: western, adventure
- Cast: Leo Carrillo, Duncan Renaldo, Riley Hill, Art Dupuis, Peggy Stewart, Gail Davis, Robert Livingston, Fred Kohler Jr.
- TMDB rating: 7.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042093/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: warm, cheerful, sincere, adventurous, good humored

## Synopsis

The Cisco Kid (1950-1956) is an American half-hour western series created for early television and broadcast in the era of the classic frontier serial. Duncan Renaldo plays the title hero, the Cisco Kid, a wanted desperado who rides the frontier with his jovial sidekick Pancho, played by Leo Carrillo. The pair are technically outlaws, wanted for unspecified crimes, yet the poor see them as Robin Hood figures who step in when corrupt or indifferent lawmen fail the downtrodden. Its engine is simple and episodic: each half-hour story brings the duo to a town, a family, or a ranch where someone needs help, and the pair must outwit crooked officials and hard men while keeping their own freedom. The series ran six seasons and 156 episodes, mostly built as self-contained case-of-the-week adventures rather than one continuing arc. Its tone is warm, sunny and gently good-humored, with a sincere moral backbone and an affectionate camaraderie between the two leads. Set in the American Southwest of the nineteenth century, it offers open desert landscapes, frontier towns and a steady sense of fair play. Its significance is also technical, as the first television series filmed in color, though few viewers saw it that way until the 1960s. Fans of The Lone Ranger, Zorro and Gunsmoke will find the same classic western spirit here.

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