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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3575841, member: 5798"] To quote [URL='https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=Lynn+Bellvidere&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8']Lynn Belvedere[/URL]....."That is correct". But Steelerone's question was: [B]who played California? :cool:[/B] During his run, Hoppy had several side-kicks including Edgar Buchanan as Red Connors. As portrayed on the screen, white-haired Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy was usually clad strikingly in black (including his hat, an exception to the Western film stereotype that only villains wore black hats). He was reserved and well spoken, with a sense of fair play. He was often called upon to intercede when dishonest characters took advantage of honest citizens. "Hoppy" and his white horse, Topper, usually traveled through the West with two companions—one young and trouble-prone with a weakness for damsels in distress, the other older, comically awkward and outspoken.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] The juvenile lead was successively played by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellison_(actor)']James Ellison[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hayden']Russell Hayden[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reeves']George Reeves[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Brooks']Rand Brooks[/URL], and Jimmy Rogers.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_%22Gabby%22_Hayes']George Hayes[/URL] (later to become known as "Gabby" Hayes) originally played Cassidy's grizzled sidekick, Windy Halliday. After Hayes left the series because of a salary dispute with producer Harry Sherman, he was replaced by the comedian Britt Wood as Speedy McGinnis and finally by the veteran movie comedian [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clyde'][B]Andy Clyde[/B][/URL][B] as California Carlson. [/B]Clyde, the most durable of the sidekicks, remained with the series until it ended. A few actors of future prominence appeared in Cassidy films, notably [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mitchum']Robert Mitchum[/URL], who appeared in seven films at the beginning of his career. Thanks to the earlier series which showed edited versions of his films, Boyd began work on a separate series of half-hour westerns made especially for television; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Buchanan'][B]Edgar Buchanan[/B][/URL][B] was his new sidekick[/B], Red Connors (a character from the original stories and a few of the early films). The theme music for the television show was written by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacio_Herb_Brown']Nacio Herb Brown[/URL] (music) and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Wolfe_Gilbert']L. Wolfe Gilbert[/URL] (lyrics). The show ranked number 7 in the 1949 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Media_Research']Nielsen[/URL] ratings, number 9 in the 1950-1951 season and number 28 in 1951-1952.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy#cite_note-11'][11][/URL] The success of the show and tie-ins inspired juvenile television westerns such as [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Range_Rider']The Range Rider[/URL][/I], [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Texas_Rangers']Tales of the Texas Rangers[/URL][/I], [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley_(TV_series)']Annie Oakley[/URL][/I], [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gene_Autry_Show']The Gene Autry Show[/URL][/I], and [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roy_Rogers_Show']The Roy Rogers Show[/URL][/I]. [/QUOTE]

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