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.
The Cisco Kid (Season 1)
Boomerang (Episode 1) 6.0
Air date: 1950-09-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Counterfeit Money (Episode 2)
Air date: 1950-09-12
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Rustling (Episode 3)
Air date: 1950-09-19
Runtime: 30 min
Big Switch (Episode 4)
Air date: 1950-09-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Cisco's involved with a convict posing as a rancher. Cisco: Duncan Renaldo. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
Convict Story (Episode 5)
Air date: 1950-10-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A convict steals Pancho's clothes and horse. Pancho: Leo Carrillo. Cisco: Duncan Renaldo.
Oil Land (Episode 6)
Air date: 1950-10-10
Runtime: 30 min
Chain Lightning (Episode 7)
Air date: 1950-10-14
Runtime: 30 min
Medicine Flats (Episode 8) 6.0
Air date: 1950-10-17
Runtime: 30 min
Railroad Land Rush (Episode 9)
Air date: 1950-10-28
Runtime: 30 min
The Will (Episode 10)
Air date: 1950-10-31
Runtime: 30 min
Cattle Quarantine (Episode 11)
Air date: 1950-11-07
Runtime: 30 min
Renegade Son (Episode 12)
Air date: 1950-11-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Cisco tries to prove a girl innocent of murder. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
False Marriage (Episode 13)
Air date: 1950-11-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Wedding Blackmail (Episode 14)
Air date: 1950-12-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Lynching Story (Episode 15)
Air date: 1950-12-12
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Newspaper Crusaders (Episode 16)
Air date: 1950-12-19
Runtime: 30 min
Dog Story (Episode 17)
Air date: 1950-12-26
Runtime: 30 min
Confession For Money (Episode 18)
Air date: 1951-01-02
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
The Old Bum (Episode 19)
Air date: 1951-01-09
Runtime: 30 min
Haven For Heavies (Episode 20)
Air date: 1951-01-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Pancho Hostage (Episode 21)
Air date: 1951-01-16
Runtime: 30 min
Freight Line Feud (Episode 22)
Air date: 1951-01-27
Runtime: 30 min
Phoney Sheriff (Episode 23)
Air date: 1951-02-06
Runtime: 30 min
Uncle Disinherits Niece (Episode 24)
Air date: 1951-02-13
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Cisco aids a man suspected of murdering a rancher. Cisco: Duncan Renaldo. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
Phoney Heiress (Episode 25)
Air date: 1951-02-13
Runtime: 30 min
Water Rights (Episode 26)
Air date: 1951-02-20
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Cisco matches wits with an unscrupulous banker. Pancho: Leo Carrillo.
