The earliest documented telecast of this film occurred Monday 19 May 1947 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 4). It first aired in Atlanta Monday 21 November 1949 on WSB (Channel 8), and in Philadelphia Sunday 25 December 1949 on Frontier Playhouse on WPTZ (Channel 3).
First in a series clearly using the old Three Mequiteers format and two of its characters,
After 24 episodes of the "Three Mesquiteeers" series, Ray Corrigan was dissatisfied with Reoublic's financial arrangements and so established this similar series with producer George Weeks at Monogram. Ironically the Monogram series ran 24 episodes also, many of which were shot at the Corriganville Movie Ranch in Sun Valley.
Because of copyright considerations in the switch from Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series to Monogram's "Range Busters" films, a scene had to be written early on in the feature to explain why "Lullaby" Terhune had changed his nickname to "Alibi,"
Ray "Crash" Corrigan had previously made 24 films in Republic Pictures' The Three Mesquiteers series. When he and ventriloquist Max Terhune, who had made 21 films in the series, both had disputes over money with Republic, Corrigan went to producer George W. Weeks with the idea of a similar series that would be distributed by Monogram Pictures and filmed at the movie ranch with Western sets owned by Corrigan, the Corriganville Movie Ranch in the Simi Hills of the Simi Valley. Corrigan said in an interview that he received 50% of the profits of the series.