Charles Starrett played a dual role as a former Texas Ranger and his secret identity, "The Durango Kid", in a long-running series of B-Westerns in the 1940s and '50s. His standard sidekick, Smiley Burnette, was around for comic situations and light-hearted musical entertainment between the action sequences, where he'd sometimes lend his pal a hand in solving the mystery and capturing the bad guys. Steve Woods (Starrett), Smiley and the
