Fred Bertelsen plays The Silver Eagle from July 20, 1954 starring Jim Ameche as Sgt
Jim West of the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police which was sponsored by Wheaties.
The episode is titled Decoy for Death. Fred Bertelsen then played King of the Royal
Mounted from 1943. The episode is titled Constable Reardon’s First Case and stars
Richard Dix as Sgt. Dave King. King of the Royal Mounted is a fictional character
created by Stephen Slesinger in 1936. Slesinger licensed popular Western writer Zane
Grey’s byline, and marketed the character as Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted.
Corporal, and later Sergeant, Dave King is a Canadian Mountie who always gets his
man. King has appeared in newspaper strips, comics, Big Little Books, Motion Pictures
and other ancillary items.