The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 188
- Genre
- western
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Cisco_Kid_page2”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 18 years on the air, with 13 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. Cisco Kid Disapearing Bullet · 22 Jul 1952
- 2. Cisco Kid Berserk · 15 Jan 1953
- 3. Cisco Kid Flowers for Polly · 24 Mar 1953
- 01
Cisco Kid Disapearing Bullet
22 Jul 1952 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Cisco Kid Berserk
15 Jan 1953 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Cisco Kid Flowers for Polly
24 Mar 1953 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Cisco Kid The Rustlers
2 Jun 1953 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Cisco Kid The 5000 Reward
21 Jul 1953 · 31 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Cisco Kid The Battle of the Border
29 Oct 1953 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Cisco Kid Riders In The Night
14 Jan 1954 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Cisco Kid Avalanche in Arrow Pass
30 Mar 1954 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Cisco Kid was on the air.
Same seasons
western on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The adult western
Gunsmoke was sold as the first adult western: moral ambiguity, weather, silence. Serialised folk horror and long-form fiction inherited its patience.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Cisco Kid
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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