"The Sheriff of Cochise" S&W guns

[Texas Star]

Does anyone recall the old TV series, "The Sheriff of Cochise", starring John Somebody? The sheriff had a K-38, I believe, and his chief deputy had a Model 10 snub, with a stag grip, I think.

Is my memory correct? The sheriff also had a M-94 Winchester mounted on the door of his car.

I was awfully young when this show was on, but think I have the guns right. I think the time was the late 1950's.

T-Star

 

[safearm]

IIRC, he used a station wagon for his patrol car.

 

[mafuta54]

Sheriff of Cochise (TV Series 1956–1958) - IMDb

 

[jimmyj]

Hi:
Both the Sheriff and Deputy had medium frame revolvers with six inch barrels. The Sheriff (John Bromfield) IIRC carried a blued Model 10 with stag grips in a shoulder holster.
The Deputy (IIRC) carried a blued Colt Official Police in a western cartridge belt and holster.
later the series devoloped into "U.S. Marshall".

 

[Texas Star]

Sheriff of Cochise (TV Series 1956–1958) - IMDb

Thanks. The gun he's holding in the photo in your link looks like a .38-44 HD with six-inch bbl. and stag Franzite grips. (I know it should be 6.5 inches, but it looks a bit short for that.)

He may have had more than one gun in this series and "US Marshal" which suceeded it.

I'm pretty sure that one deputy had a M-10 or M-12 snub, though. I think he wore it crossdraw.

The link says that his station wagon was a DeSoto.

There was also a good series called Tales of the Texas Rangers, in which I think they wore .44 M1950 Military models. May have been .38-44's. I saw them on the show and on the covers of comic books based on the show.

I think the real Rangers or DPS did issue .38-44's before they went to .357's. But many carried fancy .45 autos. The Highway Patrol issued M-28's for years, but Rangers carried what they wanted. I think Jace Pearson was the Ranger star. Seem to recall that Harry Lauter was the actor who played his partner.

 

[feralmerril]

I checked his bio and it says he left acting to become a commercial fisherman and that he was a avid hunter all his life. Also that he MCed a chicago sportsman show in the 1980s. I watched him too.

John Bromfield - Biography

 

[David LaPell]

There are a few clips out there on Youtube. I love the opening. In the second half of the Red Haired Stranger episode, right around the 10 minute mark you get a pretty good view of his HD revolver, appears to be a 5-inch gun.

 

[Xfuzz]

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[Xfuzz]

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