* 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.

* Also excluded were several films in the Zane Grey western series, including To the Last Man ( 1932 ), that were licensed to a theatrical reissue distributor at the time of the MCA deal, as well as all the Hopalong Cassidy films purchased by star William Boyd, and are currently under the control of U. S. Television Office, founded by Boyd.

* June 24 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.

Leone gains credit for one great breakthrough in the western genre still followed today: in traditional western films, many heroes and villains looked alike as if they had just stepped out of a fashion magazine, with clearly drawn moral opposites, even down to the hero wearing a white hat and the villain wearing a black hat ( except for the most successful of the ' traditional western cowboys ' - Hopalong Cassidy, who wore a black outfit upon a pale horse ).

William Boyd appears in his usual guise of Hopalong Cassidy.

An agent he had met got him an interview with the producer of the Hopalong Cassidy series of B-westerns ; he was hired to play the villain in several films in the series during 1942 and 1943.

The 1930s saw the arrival of a dozen B westerns, including four visits from silent film idol turned talkie cowboy star George O ’ Brien and the only Hopalong Cassidy film ever shot outside California.

Kate Smith, Liberace, Gen. John Pershing and William " Hopalong Cassidy " Boyd were guests of the desert retreat.

Since the early 1920s, 150 movies and about a dozen television shows have been filmed here, including Tom Mix films, Hopalong Cassidy films, The Gene Autry Show, and The Lone Ranger.

* Rights to the UA-distributed Hopalong Cassidy films are held by the late William Boyd's company, U. S. Television Office.

Two bombs, one with a delayed-action fuse, fell on the Whitehall Theatre, a cinema on the London Road, where 184 people at the matinée show were watching a Hopalong Cassidy film before the main feature.

* Topper ( horse ), the white horse ridden by Hopalong Cassidy

* The title " Hopalong Casualty " is a pun on " Hopalong Cassidy ".

He freelanced, appearing in five Hopalong Cassidy westerns before director Mark Sandrich cast Reeves as Lieutenant John Summers opposite Claudette Colbert in So Proudly We Hail!

In the 1950s motion pictures and television heroes Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and Davy Crockett added their names to toy six shooters and rifles.

Drucker had arrived at the Mad offices with drawings of the Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy ; while unlike the continuities he would become best known for, the Mad staff reacted favorably.

Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., now known as The Topps Company, Inc., started inserting trading cards into bubble gum packs in 1950 — with such topics as TV and film cowboy Hopalong Cassidy ; " Bring ' Em Back Alive " cards featuring Frank Buck on big game hunts in Africa ; and All-American football cards.

From the 1910s through the 1960s, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and hundreds of other cowboys made movies at Iverson Movie Ranch.

Freberg made his movie debut as an on-screen actor in the comedy Callaway Went Thataway ( 1951 ), a satirical spoof on the marketing of Western stars ( apparently inspired by the TV success of Hopalong Cassidy ).

Starting in 1950, the company decided to try increasing gum sales by packaging them together with trading cards featuring Western character Hopalong Cassidy ( William Boyd ); at the time Boyd, as one of the biggest stars of early television, was featured in newspaper articles and on magazine covers, along with a significant amount of " Hoppy " merchandising.

In 1950, Aladdin Industries created the first children's lunch box based on a television show, Hopalong Cassidy.

* William Boyd ( actor ) ( 1895 – 1972 ), American actor, better known as " Hopalong Cassidy "

American actor William Boyd was chosen to front the advertising campaign as a character he made famous in numerous films, Hopalong Cassidy, along with the slogan " Hoppy's favourite sweet ".

Since 1991, the Friends of Hoppy Fan Club has held the Hopalong Cassidy Festival in Cambridge, Ohio, near Boyd's birthplace.

* Screen Snapshots: Hopalong in Hoppy Land ( 1951 )

Some also see a resemblance between Nevada Smith and William Boyd, who became famous as Hopalong Cassidy.

Although Boyd " never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer ", and disliked Western music, he became indelibly associated with the Hopalong character and, like rival cowboy stars Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, gained lasting fame in the Western film genre.

On June 24, 1949, Hopalong Cassidy became the first network Western television series.

In 1950, Hopalong Cassidy was featured on the first lunchbox to bear an image, causing sales for Aladdin Industries to jump from 50, 000 units to 600, 000 units in just one year.

* Paramount sold three features – I Married a Witch, The Crystal Ball and Young and Willing – to United Artists ( along with five Harry Sherman-produced westerns and 13 Hopalong Cassidys ) beginning in 1942 when that studio needed product to release, and Paramount had a surplus.

Hopalong Casualty is a 1960 Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical animated short, featuring the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

* Hopalong Casualty introduced a change in the scenery as designed by Maurice Noble.

The Vitagraph name was briefly resurrected from 1960 to 1969 at the end of Warner Bros .' Looney Tunes cartoons ( starting with 1960's Hopalong Casualty ), with the end titles reading " A Warner Bros.

Cassidy initially quelled the situation by leaving his kit and physically pulling both California and Young back onstage to the microphone to close out the song, asking the audience to sing along with them.

In 1978, Cassidy starred in an episode of Police Story titled " A Chance To Live ," for which he received an Emmy nomination.

Cassidy returned to the American Top 40 with his 1990 single " Lyin ' To Myself ," released on the Enigma Records label.

" Interestingly enough ," wrote Frank Buxton and Bill Owen in The Big Broadcast 1920-1950, " Nussbaum, Moody, and Cassidy were never criticized as being anti-Southern, anti-Semitic, anti-New England or anti-Irish.

Finally, " A Chance to Live ," a special episode from the fifth season starring David Cassidy, was spun off into the series Man Undercover.

Daniel Cassidy noted in his work on American-Irish slang, " that up until the mid-19th century most of New York's population lived below Canal Street, where the block was often part of a tangled weave of paths and old Indian trails ," rather than a traditional rectangular grid.

Cassidy, designated as " Sundance 1 ," wore a special ring with a hidden communicator to keep in contact with Mr. Socrates from afar.

While helping Cassidy track down the man responsible for giving his junkie girlfriend a large amount of heroin to stash, Jesse met " The Grail ," a sinister organization who have been tasked with finding and capturing Jesse.

He and fullback Larry Csonka were known as " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ," in 1973 co-wrote a book, Always on the Run.