Season 2 • Episode 13
LatestCorky persuades tries to persuade Buffalo Bill Cody to come out of retirement to help the show, unaware that the famous man holds the circus responsible for the death of his son.
Circus Boy is an American action/adventure/drama series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1958. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960. The series currently airs Saturday mornings on Antenna TV.
Production
Real circus performers and animals, pre-CGI spectacle.
Acting
Billy Barty's scene-stealing turns as circus little person.
Costume
Gloriously inaccurate 1890s frontier fashion choices.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Micky Dolenz was hired at age ten and performed his own stunts; he later said this show taught him to fall off horses without dying.
This series rode the 1950s circus nostalgia wave sparked by Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and predated the 1960s circus family craze.
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