Originally broadcast on NBC, 18 March 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1955–1956
- Surviving broadcasts
- 41
- Genre
- western
Fort Laramie opened with "Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier. The saga of fighting men who rode the rim of empire and the dramatic story of Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry". When Norman Macdonnell created Fort Laramie in late 1955, he made it clear to his writers that historical accuracy was esse
1956 · 391955 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 39 of 40Listenable · 1 of 40
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Fort_Laramie_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1955
1956
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1955, in original transmission order.
- 1. Untitled Broadcast · 25 Jul 1955
- 2. Playing Indian · 22 Jan 1956
- 3. Boatwright's Story · 29 Jan 1956
Army Wife
28 Oct 1956 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 28 October 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Indian Scout
21 Oct 1956 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 21 October 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Still Waters
14 Oct 1956 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 14 October 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Galvanized Yankee
7 Oct 1956 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 October 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Small Beginning
30 Sep 1956 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 30 September 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Woman at Horse Creek
23 Sep 1956 · 32 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 September 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Payroll
16 Sep 1956 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 16 September 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Buffalo Hunters
9 Sep 1956 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 9 September 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
18 Mar 1956
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 18 Mar 1956.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 March 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1955–1956
Other series the network carried while Fort Laramie 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
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