Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
This western featured movie star Guy Madison as the lead, ably assisted by media veteran Andy Devine as his sidekick Jingles. Both remained with the series for its entire run. Kellogg’s was the sponsor from start to finish. After the last show in December 1954, it went into syndication from July 1955 until Feb 1956….
All Star Westerns Theatre
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
The All Star Western Theatre graced the airwaves in the mid-1940’s and was made up of a variety of different shows. The shows delivered riotous laughs and down-to-earth humor that was a pleasant alternative to other heavier and intense programs. The music of these old radio shows was done by a group called “The Riders…
Country Style USA
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
Strap on your boots and pop on your ten gallon hat because: “It’s time for Country Style USA… stay all night, stay a little longer, dance all night, dance a little longer, pull off your coat and go a little longer, don’t see why you don’t stay a little longer.” Announced by Cecil Daniels,…
Frontier Town
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
Chad Remington is an aspiring new lawyer in the big city whose world and dreams are turned upside down by the news of his father’s murder back in the small ranching town of Dos Rios where he was raised. His quest to bring the killer to justice serves as the springboard to an unexpected new…
Gunsmoke
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
Gunsmoke was a long-running old-time radio and television Western drama program set in Dodge City, Kansas during the settlement of the American West. The radio show first aired on April 26, 1952, and ran until June 18, 1961, on the CBS radio network. The series starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as…
Luke Slaughter
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
Sam Buffington starred as Luke Slaughter, a Civil War cavalryman who turned to cattle ranching in post war Arizona territory near Fort Huachuca. Sam Buffington enacted the title role on Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, another of CBS’s prestigious adult Westerns. The series was produced and directed by William N. Robson, one of radio’s greatest dramatic…
The Lone Ranger
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
The Lone Ranger is an American radio and television show created by George W. Trendle and developed by writer Fran Striker. The eponymous character is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West, originally played by Paul Halliwell, who gallops about righting injustices with the aid of his clever, laconic Indian sidekick, Tonto. Departing…
The Six Shooter
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures. Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt. The epigraph set it up nicely: “The man in the saddle is angular…
Western Stories
Hosted ByAndrew Rhynes
Not all westerns were done as full series. This is a collection of Western Stories from different shows that did not focus strictly on westerns but had episodes that were westerns or during the western era. We also include shows that have less than 10 episodes either found or that were ever produced.
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