About: Judge Roy Bean (TV series)

Judge Roy Bean was a syndicated western television series based very loosely on the life of a Texas justice of the peace. Edgar Buchanan played Roy Bean, known as "the only law west of the Pecos." The series was originally broadcast during the 1955 television season. There were 39 half-hour episodes, shot in color in Pioneertown, California. In the mid-1950s most television stations only broadcast black-and-white programing, and during the series' original run only five stations aired Judge Roy Bean episodes in color. The remaining stations showed the syndicated series in black-and-white.