Starred Duncan
Renaldo as the knight-errant title role and Leo
Carrillo (then in hisseventies) as his portly sidekick,
Pancho.
Cisco and
Pancho saw plenty of action as they galloped around 1890's New
Mexico on Diablo and Loco meting out justice to black-hearted
villains. They kept violence to a minimum, with Cisco confining
himself to shooting guns from his opponent's hands, whilst Pancho
was an expert with the whip.. Cisco was a bit of a dandy, dressed
in his finely embroidered shirts and silver spurs with a gaint
sombrero.. Pancho, however, loved his food. The adventures were
played mainly for laughs and Pancho's terrible grip of the
English language was used to the full.
Writer O.
Henry created the Cisco Kid stories and the character had already
appeared on film in the 1920's. Duncan Renaldo had previously
played the part in the cinema and was in his 50's when the TV
series was made. Leo Carillo was in his 70's. The series was,
unusually,filmed in colour