The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 74
- Genre
- western
(LIFE ON) RED HORSE RANCH What is Life on Red Horse Ranch ? Life on Red Horse Ranch successfully combines a genuinely thrilling serial story, with the colorful music of the old west. A vivid moving story filled with suspense that stirs the imagination of every listener. deftly woven into the script is the picturesque music of the open range, by the Texas Rangers, music heard in its natural setting. Life on Red Horse Ranch has all the elements of a successful radio show: Drama Romance Comedy Music DRAMA the struggle of old Sam Carter to save Red Horse Ranch from land grabbers. the tense excitement of a deadly fight with cattle rustlers, the perils of the round-up, the sweeping rush of the stampede. ROMANCE the deep affection of Alabam for Rose, lovely daughter of Sam Carter. colorful excitement of the rodeo, with its bull-dogging, bronco-busting, and wild steer riding. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Red_Horse_Ranch_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
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. First Tune - I Ride an Old Paint · Date unknown
- 2. Alabam Is Hurt While Riding Red · Date unknown
- 3. First Tune - Grandma · Date unknown
First Tune - I Ride an Old Paint
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Alabam Is Hurt While Riding Red
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
First Tune - Grandma
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Tenderfoot Is in Love With Rose Carter
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
First Tune - Hallalujah, I'm a Bum
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Red_Horse_Ranch_35-xx-xx_ep41_The_Rest_Of_The_Boys_Don't_Like_Dewey_Dawson
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Alabam Is Wondering Who Shot the Gun
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
First Tune - I Like Mountain Music
Date unknown · 15 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 Red Horse Ranch 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
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