Originally broadcast on NBC, 4 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1945–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 70
- Genre
- western
Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German shepherd Bullet were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1964.
1953 · 131952 · 32
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Rough but complete · 45 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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: The_Roy_Rogers_Show
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 7 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1952, in original transmission order.
- 1. Roy Rogers 204 Cattle Swindle · 11 Jan 1952
- 2. Roy Rogers 205 Owlhoot Trail · 18 Jan 1952
- 3. Roy Rogers 206 Wake of the Storm · 25 Jan 1952
Roy Rogers Rabies
26 Mar 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 26 March 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Roy Rogers Black Gold
19 Mar 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 19 March 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Roy Rogers Domino
12 Mar 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 12 March 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Roy Rogers Apache Grazing Land
5 Mar 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 March 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Checkered Neckercheif
26 Feb 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 26 February 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Roy Rogers Happy Birthday Sheriff
19 Feb 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 19 February 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Roy Rogers Uranium Claim
12 Feb 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 12 February 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Roy Rogers Fireworks
5 Feb 1953 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 February 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
4 Apr 1952
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Apr 1952.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 4 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1945–1953
Other series the network carried while The Roy Rogers Show 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 The Roy Rogers Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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