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Episode 12, aired on CBS Radio July 12, 1952. Stage robbers get $50,000 worth of gold, and kidnap Carter's girl friend. When she returns to Dodge, and she's not very eager to reunite with Carter. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, likes it peaceful. However the stage that was due in was carrying gold when it was held up and Dillon must get to work to apprehend the culprits. A companion on the stage said it looked like she was cooperating with the bandits.

January 29, 1956  Captain Quince, Raymond Burr, and his patrol must stop the sale of Henry rifles to Yellow Knife. Quince heads to the Indian reservation to see his compadre Chief Wild Dog for information about the white man who is supplying Indians with rifles. Chief Wild Dog tells Quince where the rifle smuggler meets Yellow Knife. Private Boatwright hates the Indians and knew the only way to conquer his fear was to kill one of them.

Episode 2, November 30, 1958. CBS Radio network. Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.

"The Lone Ranger" radio program was created by George W. Trendle (photo insert) and Fran Striker. First aired on Trendle's radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, in 1933. The radio series was carried by more than 400 American stations by the end of the decade. The Michigan Radio Network then the original Mutual Radio Network. Later on the ABC Radio Network and lastly in syndication by the ad agency representing General Mills, the sponsor. Cheerios, Wheaties and Betty Crocker products. The Lone Ranger’s theme song, Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell overture, became a familiar piece of music in every child’s repertoire, and it was radio that made “Hi-yo, Silver, away!” a familiar exclamation. The most familiar voice of The Lone Ranger was that of Brace Beemer. The familiar opening announcement and narrations in the later series were by Fred Foy.

First Episode aired July 14, 1957. The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for only fifteen episodes in 1957–58. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray, and Peter Leeds and the musical direction of Billy May, ran in the 7 p.m. Sunday evening time period.

January 22, 1956. Premiere episode. 

Joel McCrea stars as Jayce Pearson in Tales of the Texas Rangers, a contemporary procedural crime Western. With all of the technology available in the mid 20th century.  It was one of the most popular shows of that era. Produced by Stacy Keach, Sr., a successful actor, producer, writer and director for over fifty years. (Father of actors Stacy and James Keach). He created, produced and directed this legendary “Tales of the Texas Rangers” for NBC Radio in the early 1950’s. The show was also included in the Smithsonian Archive Presentation of the most famous Radio Detective shows of the 20th Century. This episode "White Elephant" is based on events of January 16, 1950. A deserted motel is the hiding place for stolen goods and killers. 

Have Gun Will Travel, the first episode on radio was broadcast on CBS network, November 23, 1958 the show continued until November 22, 1960. Paladin 'Gun For Hire' lived in and worked from the Carleton Hotel, in San Francisco around 1875.   Have Gun Will Travel was one of those programs which got its start on television (CBS TV 1957 thru 1963, starring Richard Boone), successfully moving to radio.   The Series was created by Herb Meadow, Sam Rolfe and starred John Dehner as Paladin, Ben Wright as Heyboy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wong. In this first episode a simple theater invitation turns into a case of assassination, Paladin takes an expensive contract that may prove even more irregular than he realizes.

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