The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 32
- Genre
- western
Old Time Radio Programs,Romance of the Ranchos EDIT after uploading I noticed that the filenames are All Rancho San Raphael. These are Romance of the Ranchos. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Rancho_San_Raphael”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
6 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 9 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. Rancho San Raphael 001 Rancho San Rafael · 7 Sep 1941
- 2. Rancho San Raphael 003 Rancho San Jose · 21 Sep 1941
- 3. Rancho San Raphael 005 Rodeo de Las Aguas · 8 Oct 1941
- 01
Rancho San Raphael 001 Rancho San Rafael
7 Sep 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Rancho San Raphael 003 Rancho San Jose
21 Sep 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Rancho San Raphael 005 Rodeo de Las Aguas
8 Oct 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Rancho San Raphael 007 Paso de Bartolo Viejo
22 Oct 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Rancho San Raphael 009 Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos
5 Nov 1941 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Rancho San Raphael 011 San Vincene y Santa Monica
19 Nov 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Rancho San Raphael 013 San Antonio
3 Dec 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Rancho San Raphael 015 Benjamin D Wilson Part 2
17 Dec 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Rancho San Raphael 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 Rancho San Raphael
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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