I was only a nipper in the 50's but I loved "Wirey Twerp" as we used to call him.And Davey Crockett, though I could never work out how he got that raccoon to sit still through a whole episode. I always thought the song went ...."Killed in a bar when he was only three". As a kid I could never work out how he got killed in a bar and then grew up to be a big dork with a raccoon asleap on his head.
Also I remember that Gunsmoke started out in the uk as Gun Law.
CHeers
Bugsy.