Gene Autry & Television in 1936

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

IMDB doesn't say anything about the studio investing in TV, but Autry's westerns were big on technology, including cars and planes, so why not TV? This was in the general spirit of attracting children and especially boys to see the pictures, I think.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000810/bio

I remember one Autry film that had him helping a team of rocket scientists not too long ago, it was quite interesting.