The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1958–1958
- Surviving broadcasts
- 42
- Genre
- western
was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958, initially heard Sunday afternoons at 2:30pm through March when it moved to 7pm. The program opened with a trumpet theme by Jerry Goldsmith and this introduction: Herewith, an Englishman's account of life and death in the West.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
11 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1958, in original transmission order.
- 1. Frontier Gentleman Episode00 RemittanceManAud-BenWright · 29 Jan 1958
- 2. Frontier Gentleman Episode01 The Shelton Brothers · 2 Feb 1958
- 3. Frontier Gentleman Episode02 Charlie Meeker · 9 Feb 1958
Frontier Gentleman Episode41 Random Notes
16 Nov 1958 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 16 November 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Frontier Gentleman Episode40 Holiday
9 Nov 1958 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 9 November 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Frontier Gentleman Episode39 Nasty People
2 Nov 1958 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 2 November 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Frontier Gentleman Episode38 The Rainmaker
26 Oct 1958 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 26 October 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Frontier Gentleman Episode37 The Preacher
19 Oct 1958 · 23 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 19 October 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Frontier Gentleman Episode36 Aces And Eights
12 Oct 1958 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 October 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Frontier Gentleman Episode35 The Librarian
5 Oct 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 5 October 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Frontier Gentleman Episode34 The Golddigger
28 Sep 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 28 September 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1958–1958
Other series the network carried while Frontier Gentleman 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 Frontier Gentleman
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