Original title
The Cisco Kid
Released
9/5/1950
Origin country
US
Genre
Western
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
156
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
Cisco and Poncho are being impersonated by two bandits who have committed robbery and murder, so they have to break jail to prove their innocence.
Cisco and Pancho are asked by Marshal Ben Lane to track down a gang of counterfeiters in Durado. Cisco suspects the local banker and his clerk to be involved in the counterfeit, but cannot prove anything. He sets some traps for the gang. One of the traps involves arresting Pancho as an alleged bank robber.
Cisco's involved with a convict posing as a rancher. Cisco: Duncan Renaldo. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
A convict steals Pancho's clothes and horse. Pancho: Leo Carrillo. Cisco: Duncan Renaldo.
Cisco tries to prove a girl innocent of murder. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
Jasper King has asked his old friend Cisco to help him stop the marriage between his niece Nancy and the gangster Duke Ralston. Cisco and Pancho break the wedding ceremony and run away with the protesting bride. During a quarrel about this Duke kills Jasper. Nancy tells the sheriff that it is Cisco and Pancho who have killed her uncle. To prove their innocence Cisco and Pancho have to find the real murder and deliver him to the sheriff.
Cisco and Pancho try to help a young bank teller, whose marriage to the bank president's daughter is endangered by two gunmen who are blackmailing him about a secret from his past.
When a bank president is murdered, the townspeople accuse the man's future son-in-law of the crime and a lynching party is formed. Cisco and Pancho must find out who the real killers are before the mob hangs the innocent man.
A young woman asks Cisco and Pancho to help her fiancée, who has confessed to a robbery and murder he didn't commit in order to get money for his mother's surgery.
Cisco follows the killer of a U.S. marshal to the town of Twin Buttes, which is notorious as a haven for criminals of all kinds.
Cisco aids a man suspected of murdering a rancher. Cisco: Duncan Renaldo. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
Cisco matches wits with an unscrupulous banker. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
Cisco and Pancho come to the aid of a lady rancher who's fighting a greedy cattle baron who's making ranchers and drovers pay him for watering their herds.
In order to break up a gang of vigilantes that's terrorizing the people of Buffalo Flats, Cisco and Pancho head into town disguised as a gambler and an organ grinder.
Cisco and Pancho find themselves in the middle of a feud between the guards at a gold mine and the mine's workers, whom the guards suspect of stealing gold from the mine.
Cisco takes part in an endurance race to help prove 4 quarter-horses can beat one thoroughbred, while the man entrusted to hold the race money, is planing to steal it.
A crooked prosecutor robs quicksilver shipments, then uses chemical weapons to commit murder. Cisco and Pancho investigate.
Cisco rescues an old prospector from a mine explosion. He discovers an ancient jeweled dagger that places a curse on anyone who steals it.
Cisco and Poncho help the town of Peaceful Valley catch a gang of bank robbers who have been hitting all of the surrounding towns, but never Peaceful Valley.
Cisco and Pancho must solve the murder of a deputy sheriff whose body they found on the trail with saddlebags stuffed with $50 bills.
After robbery in town, citizen picks up shotgun off street dropped by 'shotgun' miller after robbery. 'Papa' rides into town holding shotgun and is mistaken for the bandit. He escapes on his horse only to fall off and have to be rescued by Cisco and Pancho from a treacherous rock cliff. The sheriff and posses show up and throw all in jail. After members of Shotgun Miller's gang hear about this, they decide to break papa out of jail since he must know where the real papa is... Cisco and Pancho must then break out and rescue papa to clear their name.
Cisco and Pancho try to protect an old rancher who's carrying a sack full of money.
Cisco and Pancho enlist the aid of the grandson of a female denizen of a ghost town taken hostage by a gang of payroll robbers because the grandson has at the ready a system of numerous ingenious booby traps ready to subdue the gang.
Cisco and Pancho attempt to thwart a crooked rancher's plan to fool a local tribe into assisting him in preventing construction of a railroad line through land the rancher wants to use.
Cisco and Pancho offer their assistance to a toll road guard.
Cisco and Pancho go after a masked bandit who's been robbing a community of Chinese miners.
On the trail of outlaws, Cisco and Pancho are captured and held prisoner by an unstable ex-general.
While searching for a severely ill Mexican child, Cisco and Pancho uncover a plot by a rancher to contaminate land with disease-infected animals so he can buy it cheap.
Cisco and Pancho bait a trap for an outlaw gang plaguing a town.
In an attempt to round up two rival bands of outlaws, Cisco wears a black mask and goes undercover as The Black Terror.
While purchasing provisions at a country store, Cisco and Pancho encounter an outlaw gang lead by an escaped convict.
A band of outlaws commits a series of robberies, while a sheriff and his deputy hunt down a gorilla on the loose.
Pancho's nephew is the witness to a murder and identifies the killer, who is arrested. When the circuit judge arrives for the trial, he is actually one of the killer's friends, who is impersonating the real judge in an effort to free his buddy.
It's Cisco and Pancho to the rescue when outlaws abduct a sheriff and imprison the lawman in an iron mask.
In order to exact revenge against Cisco for having once put him in jail, a man commits a gold shipment holdup while disguised as the Cisco Kid.
Pancho's nephew buys a new "horseless carriage", but finds himself in trouble when thieves use it as a getaway vehicle after they've robbed the bank.
A blacksmith attempts to invent an iron plow to till the hard earth. Ranchers believe farmers are stealing cattle to survive. After Cisco is injured he sends Pancho to investigate.
Cisco tries to save a town from bankruptcy.
Cisco impersonates an apparition to trap a killer who is superstitious.
Cisco and Pancho receive aid from a traveling dentist when they try to track down a notorious killer who's now posing as a cattle dealer.
Cisco tries to figure out which of three suspects is a robber. His only clue is a hat found near the scene of the crime.
A former circus juggler blames Cisco and Pancho for the worthless mine he recently purchased and tries to kill them.
Cisco tries to keep a teenager out of an outlaw gang. Cisco: Duncan Renaldo. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
Cisco is accused of helping an escaped convict. A gang has taken over a town, evicting residents who can't repay loans.
Cisco and Pancho rescue a kilt-clad Scotsman from bandits. Later he brags to his nephew that he once rode with the Cisco Kid.
Cisco and Pancho try to find a girl's missing uncle.
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