Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Vintage
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Mutual
Mutual · 1951–1952
44 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1951
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1951–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 44
- Genre
- western
Wild Bill Hickok aired from 1 April 1951 until 31 December 1954 over the Mutual Broadcasting System on radio and then made the move to television from 1955 to 1958. The show was sponsored by Kellogg Cereals and aimed at the younger generation.
1952 · 61951 · 38
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 34 of 44Rough but complete · 10 of 44
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Wild_Bill_Hickock_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1951
1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. First Show · 1 Apr 1951
- 2. The Missouri Kid · 8 Apr 1951
- 3. The Case of the Unlucky Seven · 15 Apr 1951
Wild Bill Hickok The Dead of Winter
31 Dec 1952 · 26 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 31 December 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Secret of the Hard Luck Mine
18 Jan 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 18 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Forged Fire
16 Jan 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 16 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Two-Faced Horny Toad
11 Jan 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 11 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Shawnee Raid
9 Jan 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 9 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Legacy of Death
4 Jan 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 4 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Sir Tommy, the Silver Knight
23 Dec 1951 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 23 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Wheels of Doom
16 Dec 1951 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 16 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
16 Dec 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 16 Dec 1951.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 16 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1951–1952
Other series the network carried while The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 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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