The adventures of a boy and his preternaturally intelligent horse and dog on the American frontier
The Adventures of Champion (1955)
Ricky North, an orphan living with his Uncle Sandy, had a knack for finding trouble and adventure in the desert Southwest of the 1880s. His best friends were Blaze, his German Shepherd, and, of course, Champion, a stallion who leads a remuda of wild horses, but always responds to Ricky's whistle in time of need. Ricky was the only human whom Champion would allow to ride him. The 12-year-old Ricky was played by Barry Curtis, a talented child actor who had, undeservedly, relatively few credits. Uncle Sandy was played by Jim Bannon, a handsome actor who earlier played Red Ryder in a series of B-westerns and looked every inch a lanky, broad-shouldered cowpoke who could lend a hand when Ricky and his preternaturally intelligent animal friends couldn't handle the bad guys by themselves.
Ten of the 26 episodes are included in this Timeless Media issuance. Unlike most of Timeless' other DVDs for 1950s television series, the prints...
Wonderful Classic!
This is another wonderful oldie. The little boy is so cute and so grown up (as children were back then). It is an innocent show about a boy and his animals that help him along in his adventures. The uncle comes second and helps Sandy when he gets into trouble. Like Sandy said in one episode..."You're always getting into some sort of trouble!" I love the way things were back then - so innocent and carefree. These episodes had some wonderful character actors, such as Lee Van Cleef and James Best. What a wonderful Show!
On the quality of the DVDs, they were viewable but obviously not at the quality most professional DVDs are done, but I won't complain about that because i'm just glad we have these to watch. I do hope Timeless Media will someday release the rest of these episodes on a DVD, or even better yet...that a complete episode DVD set will be done with remastered film...
If you like good old fashioned stuff
After viewing more episodes, I have modified my review. The quality of the picture is fair to almost good for an older TV show, and the stories are worth the trip if you like old fashion good guys over bad guys TV series material. An episode called the deer hunters starts off with bad guys trapping a fawn in a snare trap, which the boy discovers, which should give you a clue to the types of shows. By the way, this is noted in the description as being in color but it is in actually B/W so be aware, if you dislike black and white features. At this low price, all things considered, it isn't a bad investment. I would have rated it higher if the picture quality was better.
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