Broadcast August 28, 1952. Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. The Roy Rogers Show started its life as a thirty-minute western music and variety show in 1944. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger added a dramatic segment in later years of the show. It ended in 1955, and was carried on more than 500 stations. Because of demands on Rogers' time for personal appearances and making films, the show was one of the first radio series to be transcribed.