INNER TOOB: SUPER SIX LIST - RECENT PORTRAYALS OF BILLY THE KID

Thursday, August 25, 2016

SUPER SIX LIST - RECENT PORTRAYALS OF BILLY THE KID

SUPER SIX LIST OF RECENT PORTRAYALS OF BILLY THE KID

In Earth Prime-Time, for better or worse, Clu Gulager is William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid. He played the role for 75 episodes in the series 'The Tall Man', which ran from 1960 to 1962.

Unfortunately for a Toobworld caretaker like myself, there were plenty of other TV Westerns, firmly established in the main Toobworld, which broadcast episodes in which the Kid made an appearance. Most of these I have designated as imposters, such as the one played by Joel Grey in an episode of 'Maverick' (actually an escapee from a sanitarium) and Dennis Hopper (a sharpshooter seen in the pilots for 'The Rifleman' and 'Sugarfoot', who used the name for business.) Others had to be relegated to alternate TV dimensions like the two different actors who played Billy in separate episodes of 'Voyagers!' and Chuck Courtney's portrayal, better known for the infamous movie "Billy The Kid vs. Dracula" but also seen in an episode of 'Buffalo Bill, Jr.'. I've relegated this show, with that movie, to one of the Borderlands, a TV dimension which connects to one of the alternate dimensions of the Cineverse. (And a good thing too - the idea that the title character of Buffalo Bill, Jr. was any relation to the real William F. Cody was too much of a Zonk to deal with in the main Toobworld.)

At any rate, here is my Super Six List of actors who have played Billy the Kid in those docu-series that are prevalent on niche networks like the History Channel, National Geographic TV, and the like. They are not part of Earth Prime-Time, but "building blocks" for six of the thousands of alternate Toobworlds that make up the Multiverse........