Английская Википедия:Circus Boy

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Circus Boy was an American adventure family western that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1957. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960.

Summary

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Dolenz as Corky.

Set in the late 1890s, the title of the series refers to a boy named Corky. After his parents, "The Flying Falcons," were killed in a trapeze accident, young Corky (Micky Dolenz – billed at the time as Mickey Braddock) was adopted by Joey the Clown (Noah Beery, Jr.), and the whole Burke and Walsh Circus family. When school was brought up for Corky, Joey said he was a school teacher for many years before joining the circus and could easily handle his education.

The young boy quickly found a role with the circus as water boy to Bimbo, a baby elephant whom Corky would come to consider his pet. Riding Bimbo's back, Corky dealt with adolescent problems, and helped the show's adults including Joey, owner/promoter Big Tim Champion (Robert Lowery) and head canvasman Pete (Guinn Williams), keep the circus successful as the traveling show moved from town to town each week.

Outside of an elephant being the animal companion, the series was similar to popular "boy and his dog" shows of the time, such as Lassie/Jeff's Collie, and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.

Unusually, the opening credits billed the regular actors by their character names, rather than their own names.

Cast

Series regulars

Actor	Role
Mickey Braddock	Corky Foster
Noah Beery, Jr.	Uncle Joey the Clown
Robert Lowery	Big Tim Champion
Guinn Williams	Pete
Bimbo	Corky's pet elephant

Recurring roles and notable guest stars

Actor	Role	Appearances
Billy Barty	Little Tom	Episodes 1 and 2
Tom Brown	Ned Bailey	Episodes 29
Andy Clyde	Col. Jack Bixby	Episodes 2, 18, 31 and 39
Jane Darwell	Mamie, the seamstress	Episode 17
Coco Dolenz sister of Micky Dolenz	Annie Simmons	Episode 26
	Coco from the orphanage	Episode 42
Anthony Caruso	Gambino	Episodes 3 and 22
Ed Hinton	Mike	Episode 18
	Sheriff	Episode 43
	Glenn Keyes	Episode 48
Sterling Holloway	Elmer Purdy	Episodes 15, 37 and 44
Brad Johnson	Frank Dillard	Episode 27
Russell Johnson	Ben Osgood	Episode 5
Ralph Moody	Casey Perkins	Episodes 6 and 41
	Chief Spotted Horse	Episode 9
	Ezra Hillman	Episode 23
Nan Leslie	Muriel	Episode 30
Ken Osmond	Skinny	Episode 23
Hal Peary	Al Garson	Episode 33
Slim Pickens	Curly	Episode 8
Dan White (actor)	Deputy Gus, Sheriff and Ben Otis	Episodes 16, 21 and 26
Willard Waterman	Mayor Humphrey	Episode 42

First episode guest stars

The following cast appeared in the debut episode only. Several sources erroneously list these three, as well as Billy Barty from Episodes 1 and 2, as series regulars.

Actor	Role
Leo Gordon	Hank Miller
Eddie Marr	Barker
Olin Howlin	Swifty

References in The Monkees

Micky Dolenz sings the theme to the series in "The Monkees at the Circus", an episode of The Monkees. When asked by Mike Nesmith "What 'is' that?", Dolenz responds "It's the theme song for an old TV series". Their song "Porpoise Song" contains references to the series, most notably with the line "riding the back of giraffes for laughs is alright for a while." In their song, "I'm Going to Buy Me a Dog", Mickey Dolenz says he can train a dog. Davy Jones says, "I thought you only trained elephants."

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External links

• Шаблон:IMDb title
• Circus Boy, season 1, episode 1 YouTube