The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1941–1942
- Surviving broadcasts
- 105
- Genre
- western
(35 Episodes) "Romance of the Ranchos," broadcasting from 1941 thru 1942, is an historically correct OTR Drama, depicting the the expeditions of the men & women who attempted to tame the early California wilds. Based on the title records of its sponsor (Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles), "Romance of the Ranchos" brought appreciation of California through the understanding of its past. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “RomanceOfTheRanchos35Eps”; 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
8 dated broadcasts across 2 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 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. Rancho San Rafael · 7 Sep 1941
- 2. ROTR 1941-09-21 #003 Rancho San Jose · 21 Sep 1941
- 3. Romance of the Ranchos 06 San Pedro and Palos Verdes · 15 Oct 1941
- 01
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
ROTR 1941-09-21 #003 Rancho San Jose
21 Sep 1941 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 September 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Romance of the Ranchos 06 San Pedro and Palos Verdes
15 Oct 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos
5 Nov 1941 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
ROTR 1941-11-19 #011 San Vincene y Santa Monica
19 Nov 1941 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 19 November 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
The Life Story Of Benjamin D Wilson Part 1
10 Dec 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Romance of the Ranchos 17 San Jose de Buenos Ayres
31 Dec 1941 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
ROTR 1942-01-14 #019 Azusa Dalton
14 Jan 1942 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 14 January 1942. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1941–1942
Other series the network carried while Romance of the Ranchos 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.
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