The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1958–1958
- Surviving broadcasts
- 16
- Genre
- western
CBS started the year 1958 off with the introduction on January 1, 1958 of Frontier Gentleman . That series lasted 41 broadcasts. Near the end of the year, the network launched Have Gun, Will Travel on November 11, 1958, which continued for 106 programs.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
5 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. Duel On The Trail · 23 Feb 1958
- 2. Tracks Out Of Tombstone · 2 Mar 1958
- 3. Yancey's Pride · 9 Mar 1958
June Bride
15 Jun 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 June 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Big Business
8 Jun 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 June 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Cattle Drive
1 Jun 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 June 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Outlaw Kid
25 May 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 May 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Drive To Fort Huachuca
18 May 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 May 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Heritage
11 May 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 May 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Worth Its Salt
4 May 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 May 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Death Watch
27 Apr 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 27 April 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1958–1958
Other series the network carried while Luke Slaughter of Tombstone 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 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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