A series of adventures set under the Big Top.
with Mickey Braddock as Corky, Noah Beery as Joey the Clown, Robert Lowery as Big Tim Champion, Guinn Williams as Pete the Canvasman, Hal Peaky as Al Garson, Rusty Wescoatt as Herman Kratzmeyer, Edward S. Brophy as Jethroe Ames

Jethroe Ames, the Springfield Fair impresario, is very much taken by Corky's newest pet, a hippopotamus named Hortense, and invites Big Tim Champion to bring his circus to the fair. This makes the owner of a rival circus very jealous, and to put an end to Hortense he persuades the Sheriff's Deputy that she has eaten his assistant.