Annie Oakley | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Annie and the First Phone | Gail Davis | Brad Johnson

While surveying the route for the first telephone line intended to link remote ranches with the Diablo phone company spot a burning ranch house and arrive at the neighboring homestead in time to drive off the attack. Annie discovers that a crooked businessman has convinced the Indians to burn out the small ranchers so he can buy their land for next to nothing and turn a huge profit reselling the acreage when the Indian troubles suddenly cease. .

Director Frank McDonald
Starring Gail Davis, Brad Johnson, Jimmy Hawkins, Bob Woodward

Cast
Gail Davis as Annie Oakley
Brad Johnson as Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig
Jimmy Hawkins as Tagg Oakley
Bob Woodward as Stagecoach Driver
Harry Lauter as Bert Slade
Stanley Andrews as Chet Osgood
Gregg Barton as Boyd Spencer
Myron Healey as Al Proctor .

ANNNIE OAKLEY is an American Western television series that fictionalizes the life of the famous Annie Oakley. A total of 81 black-and-white episodes were produced that ran in snydication Jan. 1954 to Feb. 1957. ABC then aired daytime reruns of the series on Saturdays and Sundays from 1959 to 1960 and then again from 1964 to 1965. The show starred Gail Davis as Annie Oakley, with Brad Johnson in the role of Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig and Jimmy Hawkins as Annie's little brother, Tagg Oakley.