I have added a gallery of some of Alan Garfield's North America Matches.
Compared to what he did these are sparse , but believe me they are like Gold Dust to find.
https://www.wrestlingheritage.co.uk/apps/photos/album?albumid=16234925
More snippets to come about his tours.
But for now , and I believe this to be new , I have found his debut.
Previously we had traced Garfield back into 1948. There was a big gap before that but I found him at Belle Vue in 1947.
This got me to thinking how much further back could Garfield have started.
With great thanks to the late Ray Plunkett , he left us a vital scoop in his index.
4th June 1947 at Harringay his debut was with Jesse James. Later that night he lost to King Kong.
Another strange name on the bill was Karl Johnson. The British papers I have access to do not report this , but while checking that Jesse James and Karl Johnson were genuine Americans I found quite a lot of USA papers ran the same report stating the tournament was for the World's Heavyweight Championship.
This King Kong does not look to be the same man we had over from Europe. I think he was an American one and three came together to match three from over here.
Here is a photo of that night.
Eternal thanks to Ray for this Snippet.
My guess would be that our best bet of finding Alan Garfield on any US TV shows would be to concentrate on the main regions he was based in, while overseas, and see if they had a TV contract, for example, Roy Shire's California promotion, "Big Time Wrestling", which had a TV show in the 1960's. Alan Garfield spent most of 1962 and some of 1963 in California, and wrestled in Oakland, the city where Roy Shire televised his weekly show, but they only taped (I think) on Friday night in that city, so it could be that Garfield missed the TV, but I would have thought that him being such a great character, they wouldn't miss that trick and would try to include him.
He wrestled all around their loop in 1962 (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Bakersfield, etc.), so surely having him on TV, cheating and antagonizing the crowd, would have guaranteed bums-on-seats for the next few weeks as Alan went from town to town.
He also wrestled at the Los Angeles Auditorium, so that is another place he could possibly have been on TV.
I don't think Canada had weekly wrestling on TV in the early 1950's, so I am not sure we would find anything of his travels there.
As far as I know, the vast majority of US TV wrestling broadcast/tapes are owned by Vince McMahon.