Annie Oakley (TV series) Don C. Harvey, five times. Approximately two dozen episodes lapsed into the public domain and are currently available on DVD in North America (including several releases issued through Davis's estate) and elsewhere, although a full-series release has yet to happen. On March 31, 2009, Mill Creek Entertainment released "Gun Justice Featuring The Lone Ranger", with other television Westerns such as "Annie Oakley". On July 11, 2014, it was announced that VCI Entertainment will release the complete series on DVD in Region 1 for the first time on October 21, 2014. A number of American comics were based on the TV
Annie Oakley they resided. Some people believe she took on the name because that was the name of the man who had paid her train fare when she was a child. They joined "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" in 1885. At five feet tall, Oakley was given the nickname of "Watanya Cicilla" by fellow performer Sitting Bull, rendered "Little Sure Shot" in the public advertisements. During her first engagement with the Buffalo Bill show, Oakley experienced a tense professional rivalry with rifle sharpshooter Lillian Smith. Smith was eleven years younger than Oakley, age 15 at the time she joined the show in 1886,