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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 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 NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. RanchoSanRaphael 410907 001 Rancho San Rafael · Date unknown
- 2. RanchoSanRaphael 411015 006 San Pedro and Palos Verdes · Date unknown
- 3. RanchoSanRaphael 411203 013 San Antonio · Date unknown
RanchoSanRaphael 410907 001 Rancho San Rafael
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RanchoSanRaphael 411015 006 San Pedro and Palos Verdes
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RanchoSanRaphael 411203 013 San Antonio
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RanchoSanRaphael 420128 021 Rancho La Puente
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RanchoSanRaphael 420218 024 La Ballona
Date unknown · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RanchoSanRaphael 410921 003 Rancho San Jose
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RanchoSanRaphael 411029 008 Ex-Mission de San Fernando
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
RanchoSanRaphael 411217 015 Benjamin D Wilson Part 2
Date unknown · 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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