Circus Boy - Episode Guide

Big Tim Champion, the circus' new owner, arrives... and figures that Corky belongs in a boy's home, not a circus.

Colonel Jack gets the impression that the circus needs his help while Tim is rounding up new acts, and goes there to manage it. Unfortunately, everything he touches goes wrong.

A new young vet joins the circus, and advises them to kill two of their elephants that seem to be the source of an epidemic that threatens to wipe out all of the local animals.

Corky's new friend Casey Perkins is a retired railroad engineer, and the circus needs a lift to Carson City or they'll lose their performance bond and go broke.

An old classmate of Joey's, Arthur, wants to marry an attractive widow, but her young son thinks that Arthur is boring. Joey cooks up a scheme to make Arthur look like a hero.

An old equestrian clown, Fritz Pheiffer, tries to convince Joey that he owns a farm. He's actually a stable boy, and when a horse is injured, the owner fires Fritz and he tries to rejoin the circus.

A Comanche Indian tribe joins the circus for a new act, but are soon accused of stealing horses. Only Corky believes that they're innocent.

Corky rescues a Gypsy boy, and the boy's tribe soon discovers that a runaway from their camp, Tula, is at the circus.

The circus hires a sharpshooter, Billy Benson, unaware that he's the kid brother of outlaw Earl... and Earl plans to pose as Billy and rob the circus.

The circus arrives in the off-season at the request of Hayfield's reverend. However, the president of the town council forbids circus people from coming into town after dark, and threatens to shut down the Christmas celebration for the poor children.

When the circus' high diver quits, Corky convinces his assistant Cal to take the man's place. However, Cal secretly has a fear of heights, which forced him to leave his hometown... and now the circus is going there.

Corky's aunt finds out about the death of her sister, tracks Corky down, and adopts him as her own son.

Elmer, an inventor who works at the circus, designs a hot-air balloon. When his experiments in hydrogen explode, Tim orders him to burn the balloon but a forest fire soon turns Elmer into a hero.

Corky befriends the Remarkable Ricardo, an escape artist traveling with the circus. However, he soon has reason to doubt his new idol when he finds thousands of dollars in Ricardo's wagon... and a book listing banks along the same routes that the circus has taken.

Mamie LaRue's grandson Ken comes to the circus and falls in love with trapeze artist Estelle... and soon decides to quit medical school to become a barker with the circus.

Joey decides that Corky needs a mother, and Pete is glad to oblige by hooking Joey up with his sister Susie. Soon, Joey realizes that it isn't working out and tries to find a way to break it off gently.

An old trail hand awes Corky with tall tales of his glory days, but has to show real courage when he sees a bank robber's face and is called upon in court to identify the man.

The circus lion tamer's son Anthony Gambino comes for a visit, but resents his father because he thinks the man abandoned him growing up.

When the circus arrives in Titusville, local politician Matt Flint demands $300 for them to give a show. An elderly farmer, Ezra, helps the circus out and they come up a plan to get the evidence to arrest Flint.

Tim's childhood sweetheart arrives at the circus and Tim is soon considering selling the business so that he can marry her.

Husband-and-wife swindlers try to take a rich elderly woman for her money. When the local judge figures ouit what they're up to, the husband disguises himself as Joey to break into the estate and rob the safe.

Tim and the others decide to set aside some land and enter a land rush. However, a crooked developer tries to buy the land and force the losing farmers to sharecrop for him.

A crooked mayor tries to evict the circus from their winter grounds, and has the local newspaper editor under his thumb.

Joey is unaware that his friend Ned is on the run after robbing a bank to fund an operation for his dying wife.

Tim has to deal with an egotistical highwire performer and his wife, who has swallowed her career—and her spirit—to support her husband no matter what.

When Colonel Jack goes to Africa, his twin brother Jonathan takes over the circus and makes some changes.

Tim has to deal with a scheming rival and an overzealous deputy to get the contract to put on the circus at the Springfield Fair.

A woman who claims to be able to read tea leaves joins the circus, and soon drives Tim to distraction.

After the circus strongman leaves to join a rival medicine show, Tim recruits a local man, Hector. But when the medicine show owner Gabby offers a wrestling match to settle their differences, Hector refuses to fight.

A runaway boy, Gene, joins the circus and Corky takes responsibility. for him. Bareback rider Maria takes a liking to the boy, but her husband Julio wants to have a boy of them own and warns that nothing can come of Maria's feelings for Gene.

The circus' balloon man, Elmer Purdy, is convinced that he can make it rain and stop the drought that has laid waste to the surrounding area.

The circus takes in a young vagabond, unaware that he's a crown prince of Europe looking for freedom in the States.

Colonel Jack brings the circus a baby elephant, and a jealous Bimbo soon goes on a rampage.

Alex, the trapeze catcher who was working for Corky's parents the night that they died, returns to the circus. An aspiring young trapeze asks Alex to train him.

Railway engineer Casey Perkins returns, trying to beat a competing rail line by getting into a city first. The circus agrees to help him, but Indians attack believing that the train brings evil spirits with it.

Two con men join the circus, but one of them has a change of heart when he meets the orphans who are receiving the benefit money they plan to steal.

Mountain folk Lem and Jody Clemens decide to join the circus, even though they don't have any acts.

Inventor Elmer Purdy returns, with a "magic lantern" that he claims will show moving pictures. His first showing fails and Corky convinces Joey to bail Elmer out of jail... putting the circus in jeopardy.

Tim signs on the Manelli trapeze family, but younger brother Pierre warns that his brother Jean was injured in a fall and the act may not be the one that Tim was expecting.

When Pete's Uncle Cyrus pays the circus a visit, Pete admits to his friends that he told the old man that he owns the circus. Tim agrees to play along, and Pete soon gets in his over his head.

A judge running for Congress is too busy to spend time with his young son, who runs off to join the circus.

The circus is suffering for business and needs a new act, and stumbles across Buffalo Bill. Bill has retired and blames himself and his show business career because he wasn't there when his son Kit died.