Frontier Town
Syndicated (transcription)
Syndicated (transcription) · 1952–1953
94 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1952
The run
- Network
- Syndicated (transcription)
- Years active
- 1952–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 94
- Genre
- western
FRONTIER TOWN 1950-53, Syndicated Cast: Jeff Chandler as Chad Remington (through "Thunder over Texas", #23, 02/27/1953) Reed Hadley as Chad Remington (from "Gun Trouble Valley", #24, 03/06/1953 to end) Wade Crosby as Cherokee O'Bannon Written and Directed by: Paul Franklin Music by: Bob Mitchell and Ivan Ditmars Announcer: Bill Forman Sustaining, Transcribed Chad Remington is an aspiring new lawyer in the big city whose world and dreams are turned upside down by the news of his father's murder back in the small ranching town of Dos Rios where he was raised. His quest to bring the killer to justice serves as the springboard to an unexpected new career as a crimefighting attorney struggling to bring order to his small corner of the frontier as it makes the difficult transition from the Old West to the New. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Frontier_Town_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
6 dated broadcasts across 2 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 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. FT 1952-09-26 #001 Return to Dos Rios · 26 Sep 1952
- 2. FT 1952-11-21 #009 The Opening of Tioga Reserve · 21 Nov 1952
- 3. FT 1953-01-23 #018 The Jairbird Rangers · 23 Jan 1953
FT 1952-09-26 #001 Return to Dos Rios
26 Sep 1952 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 26 September 1952. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
FT 1952-11-21 #009 The Opening of Tioga Reserve
21 Nov 1952 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 November 1952. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
FT 1953-01-23 #018 The Jairbird Rangers
23 Jan 1953 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 23 January 1953. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
FT 1953-03-20 #026 South of Santa Fe
20 Mar 1953 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 20 March 1953. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
FT 1953-05-22 #035 The Chase
22 May 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 May 1953. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
FT 1953-07-17 #043 Stampede
17 Jul 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 17 July 1953. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Six Gun Justice
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Trouble Rides the Rails
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
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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.
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