Kim C: The dog's name was Snuffles; he appeared in the Quick Draw McGraw cartoons.

The old guy was Señor Wences (real name: Wenceslao Moreno). He called the hand with the face Johnny. He also had the head in the box called Pedro ("S'okay?" "S'allright!"). He died in 1999 at the age of 103.

I remember "Best of the West", and I remember being disappointed when it was cancelled. Likewise Tim Conway's western sitcom, "Rango".