The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1958–1958
- Surviving broadcasts
- 49
- 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. Luke Slaughter ep02 Tracks Out Of Tombstone · 2 Mar 1958
- 3. Luke S of T 1958-03-09 #003 Yancey's Pride · 9 Mar 1958
- 01
Duel On The Trail
23 Feb 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 February 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 02
Luke Slaughter ep02 Tracks Out Of Tombstone
2 Mar 1958 · 24 min
Broadcast 2 March 1958. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Luke S of T 1958-03-09 #003 Yancey's Pride
9 Mar 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 9 March 1958. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
The Homesteaders
23 Mar 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 23 March 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
Luke Slaughter ep06 The Aaron Holcomb Story
30 Mar 1958 · 24 min
Broadcast 30 March 1958. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
Luke S of T 1958-04-13 #007 Wagon Train
13 Apr 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 April 1958. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Luke S of T 1958-04-20 #008 The Henry Fell Story
20 Apr 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 April 1958. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Worth Its Salt
4 May 1958 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 4 May 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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