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 well. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst published a false story that Oakley had been arrested for stealing to support a cocaine habit. The woman actually arrested was a burlesque performer who told Chicago police that her name was Annie Oakley. Most of the newspapers that printed the story had relied on the Hearst article, and they immediately retracted it with apologies upon learning of the libelous error. Hearst, however, tried to avoid paying the anticipated court judgments of $20,000 (equivalent to $ in 2017) by sending an investigator to Darke County, Ohio with the intent of collecting reputation-smearing gossip from