The frontier, dramatized
The Western Hour
From the Lone Ranger's masked simplicity to Gunsmoke's harder, more adult frontier — the western learned to grow up on the radio first.
1941 – 1961 · 6 stops · 2h 54m
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The genre's most durable formula — mask, silver bullets, a clean moral line.
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A B-picture cowboy given a second life on the air.
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The cavalry perspective, played straighter than the singing-cowboy shows.
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The adult western, written for grown listeners before it was rebuilt for television.
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A late entry, narrated by an outsider — an Englishman touring the frontier for a newspaper.
Frontier Gentleman · VintageFrontier Gentleman Episode00 RemittanceManAud-BenWright
29 Jan 1958 · 26 min
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The same series' one concession to the calendar.
