Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1953–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 41
- Genre
- western
The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures. Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt.
1954 · 251953 · 15
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 1 of 40Listenable · 39 of 40
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_The_Six_Shooter_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1953
1954
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1953, in original transmission order.
- 1. Jenny · 20 Sep 1953
- 2. Coward · 27 Sep 1953
- 3. Stampede · 4 Oct 1953
Myra Barker
24 Jun 1954 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 June 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
When The Shoe Doesn't Fit
17 Jun 1954 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 17 June 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
New Sheriff
10 Jun 1954 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 June 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Silver Threads
3 Jun 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 June 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Blood Relations
27 May 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 May 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Shooting Of Wyatt King
20 May 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 May 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Double Seven
13 May 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 May 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Anna Norquist
6 May 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 May 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
11 Oct 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 Oct 1953.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Comic Weekly Man
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11 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1953–1954
Other series the network carried while The Six Shooter 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 Six Shooter
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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