Mr Malone
Broadcast 26 February 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1941–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 135
- Genre
- western
is a fictional cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and later novels. Here the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'. Beginning in 1935, the character, played by William Boyd was transformed into the clean-cut hero of a series of 66 immensely popular films, only a f
1952 · 11951 · 51950 · 51941 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 6 of 45Rough but complete · 39 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: HopalongCassidy
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 8 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. Audition Program · 11 Aug 1941
- 2. The Voice of the Dead · 26 Feb 1950
- 3. Bullots for Ballots · 30 Apr 1950
- 01
Audition Program
11 Aug 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast 11 August 1941. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
The Voice of the Dead
26 Feb 1950 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “HopalongCassidy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Bullots for Ballots
30 Apr 1950 · 25 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “HopalongCassidy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
The Sundown Kid
2 Jul 1950 · 26 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “HopalongCassidy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
The Secret of Martin Doon
3 Sep 1950 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “HopalongCassidy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Melody of Murder
4 Nov 1950 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “HopalongCassidy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Bad Medicine at Rimrock
13 Jan 1951 · 25 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “HopalongCassidy”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
The Land of the Gunhawks
17 Mar 1951 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 17 March 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
26 Feb 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 26 Feb 1950.
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1941–1952
Other series the network carried while Hopalong Cassidy 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.
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