In TV's pioneer days when kids idolized the Lone Ranger, the Texas Kid was a knight errant of the frontier leading the fight for law and order alongside his Mexican companion Pepe. In this rarely-seen TV pilot, the Kid and Pepe intercede on behalf of the murdered rancher's daughter, openly defying the landgrabbers in a cow town so lawless that rustlers operate in broad daylight! Shot at the Corrigan Ranch in 1950, TEXAS KID co-starred Mercury Records recording artist John Laurenz as Pepe and stuntman Hugh Hooker as the Kid. Hooker, a specialist in stunts involving horses and stagecoaches, often doubled Gene Autry and even produced a few movies, including the low-budget gem . That movie's star was Hugh's teenage son Buddy Joe Hooker, whose own subsequent, stellar stunt career inspired HOOPER (1978), Burt Reynolds' hit comedy tribute to movie stuntmen.
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| Release Date: | Jan 01, 1954 |
| Genres: | TV Movie, Western |
| Production Company: | John Jay Franklin Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Casts: | Hugh Hooker, John Laurenz, Pamela Blake, Terry Frost, Monte Blue, James Kirkwood, Frank Jaquet, Frank J. Scannell, John Compton, Frank Marlowe, Jack Low |
| Status: | Released |
| Budget: | $0 |
| Revenue: | 0 |
