TPW 015 Hallmark Hall of Fame 54-01-03 Tom Mix Story

"The True Story Of Tom Mix" from The Hallmark Hall Of Fame aired January 3, 1954 on CBS sponsored by Hallmark Cards. A good Western yarn about the time Tom Mix stayed awake for four days during a blizzard to capture two murderers. Lionel Barrymore (host), John Dehner, Vic Perrin, Jack Edwards, Harry Bartell, Lawrence Dobkin, Clark Gable, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, William Boyd, Will Rogers Jr., Mrs. Tom Mix, Frank Goss (announcer), William Froug (producer, director), Wilbur James (writer).

Can you recognized all the performers in this all-star cast?

TPW 015 Hallmark Hall of Fame 54-01-03 Tom Mix Story

The Restless Gun (aka The Six Shooter)

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The Restless Gun is a western television series that appeared on NBC. The series starred John Payne as a gregarious, intelligent, wandering cowhand/gunslinger. The half-hour black and white 1957-59 program ran for 78 episodes. The pilot was broadcast as an installment of the anthology series The Schlitz Playhouse of Stars on March 29, 1957; it was based on the old time radio series "The Six Shooter" and Payne's character had the same name: Britt Ponset. This was changed to Vint Bonner when the actual series began. Some episodes of the series were based on the stories of the old time radio programs.

This pilot episode is very interesting to watch for any "Six Shooter" western fans of the radio series. There is some interesting co-stars in this pilot episode like William Hopper who went on to play Paul Drake in the show Perry Mason and a very young Michael Landon who went on to play Little Joe on Bonanza.

This Pilot episode was written by Les Crutchfield, one of the major writers for "Gunsmoke" on both radio and television (he wrote 81 scripts for the radio program alone) and also created the character Festus on the Gunsmoke TV series.

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On Stage 53-05-28 ep21 The Hanging at Four Oaks

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On Stage 53-05-28 ep21 The Hanging at Four Oaks

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The Fastest Gun Alive part 2-2

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The Fastest Gun Alive part 2-2

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The Fastest Gun Alive part 1-2

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Here is a specially edited version for radio of "The Fastest Gun Alive" in two parts about notorious gunslinger George Kelby Jr. (Glenn Ford) and his wife Dora (Jeanne Crain) who settle down in a peaceful little town under assumed identities to avoid having to continually face men out to become famous for shooting down the "fastest gun alive". George becomes a mild-mannered tea-totaling shopkeeper with little respect by some townsfolk.

One day, the whole town hears the news that outlaw Vinnie Harold (Broderick Crawford) has gunned down Clint Fallon, reputedly the fastest gun in the west. George's pride is stung. Also starring Leif Erickson as Lou Glover and John Dehner as Taylor Swope.

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Zane Grey Show (Adv of Tex Thorne) 47-09-30 002 The Feud (HQ)

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The Over-the-Hill Gang

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The Over-the-Hill Gang is a 1969 TV-movie Western comedy about aging Texas Rangers starring Ricky Nelson, Jack Elam, Walter Brennan, Pat O'Brien, Chill Wills, Andy Devine and Gypsy Rose Lee.

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Louis L'Amour - Monument Rock

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Here is a dramatization of a short story by L'Amour from the podcast of nostalgic-radio.com. Just passing it along in case you miss it. Nostalgic-Radio has a lot of interesting content.

It had been many years since Lona Markham's father sent her from the rigors of ranch life to a convent school. Now she's returned to a wary, careworn man who hardly seems like the father she remembers. The ranch she's set to inherit someday is shadowed by brutish Frank Mailer, the man Lona's promised to marry--and haunted by the mysterious Black Rider, who watches the Blue Hill Ranch from a distance. Some say the Rider is a ghost, but all Lona knows is his presence makes both Poke Markham and Frank Mailer uneasy.

Then one day the enigmatic stranger reveals himself to Lona. Lance Kilkenny has ridden to this rugged country to repay an old debt to Lona's father. When he exposes a cold and daring scheme to cheat her of the Blue Hill Ranch, Lona Markham is plunged into terrible danger. But Kilkenny has a cool head and a fast gun hand.

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Monument Rock

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Singing Guns by Max Brand - Studio One

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Singing Guns was aired by Studio One on October 21, 1947 starring Myron McCormick and Gary Merrill. The story is dramatized from the novel Singing Guns by Max Brand, who you may remember created the Western character Destry, featured in several filmed versions of Destry Rides Again, and his character Dr. Kildare was adapted to motion pictures, radio, television, and comic books.

Singing Guns is about a sheriff, Owen Caradac, who is saved from certain death by the legendary killer Rhiannon, and the two forge a bond that changes Rhiannon's life.

This is a top notch story and the acting is outstanding in this one hour western drama.

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The Cowboy and the Lady - Hollywood Radio Theater

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The Cowboy and the Lady aired on Hollywood Radio Theater starring Gene Autry and Merle Oberon. Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two maids to let her go along with them on a blind date with some rodeo performers. She tells her date....

Hollywood Radio Theater - The Cowboy and the Lady

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Punishment and Crime - Sears Radio Theater

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Sears Radio Theater was an anthology radio drama series which ran weeknightly on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each day's broadcast. This selection "Punishment and Crime" is a story of the old west hosted by Lorne Greene starring Parley Baer and Howard Culver. The story was writtrn by Percy Grainger and produced by Fletcher Markle.

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Rawhide - Lux Radio Theater

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Rawhide from Lux Radio Theater aired March 22, 1955 starring Donna Reed and Jeffrey Hunter. Jim Zimmerman, a fugitive murderer from Huntsville Prison disguised as a deputy, and three other ruthless escapees take over the station and imprison a man, a woman and a baby.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Lux Radio Theater

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre aired April 18, 1949 from Lux Radio Theater. It is taken from a 1927 novel by the mysterious German-English bilingual author B. Traven, in which two American down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold. The book was very successfully adapted into a 1948 film by John Huston and done for radio by LUX RADIO THEATER on April 18, 1949. Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) portrays Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bogart played a paranoid, self-pitying character whose small-mindedness eventually destroyed him.

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Louis L'Amour - Love and the Cactus Kid

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Here is a dramatization of a short story by L'Amour from the podcast of nostalgic-radio.com. Just passing it along in case you miss it. Nostalgic-Radio has a lot of interesting content.

Folks far and wide know that the Cactus Kid can handle a pistol with the best of them. But for all his skill and coolness under fire, there's jut one small weakness he can't seem to overcome - and it may prove the death of him.


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Whispering Smith from Screen Director's Playhouse

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Whispering Smith from Screen Director's Playhouse aired September 16, 1949 starring Alan Ladd. A railroad detective tries to bring in a gang of train robbers and a lost love.
In the Rocky Mountain division of a western railroad, the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy and Gabby, a trio of thieving assassins, murder a guard on the Cheyenne express train. Railroad detective Luke Smith, called "Whispering" for his secretive way of investigating, is assigned to the case.

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Yellow Sky - Screen Director's Playhouse

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Yellow Sky From Screen Director's Playhouse aired july 15, 1949 on NBC Radio starring Gregory Peck and hosted by director William A. Wellman. Yellow Sky tells the story of an outlaw leader, Stretch (Gregory Peck),and his gang who take refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only inhabitants are an elderly gentleman and his pretty granddaughter. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader Stretch falls for the granddaughter and sets off a showdown between the entire gang.

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A Sailor Who Had To Have A Horse - Cavalcade Of America

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A Sailor Who Had To Have A Horse from Cavalcade Of America aired November 12, 1945 starring Jimmy Stewart. A cowboy from Montana finds himself in the Navy, and the owner of a flea-bitten colt!
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953.

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Inheritance - 550130 43 "The Peacemakers"

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Samuel Colt got the idea of designing a pistol with a revolving cylinder containing several bullets which could be fired through a single barrel while he was working as a seaman. On his return to the United States he continued to work on his invention and in 1835 he patented his five-shot revolver. It was a revolutionary design as it transformed a firearm into a multiple-shot device.

Colt's most popular revolver, the Peacemaker, was produced for the first time in 1873. It was produced in a variety of caliber and barrel lengths. The version with an extra long barrel was known as the Buntline Special.

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Saunders of the Circle X - 41-11-13 07 The Dam

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Hopalong Cassidy 50-01-01 (001) Dead Man's Hand

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Have Gun Will Travel 1958-11-23 0001 Strange Vendetta

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The Texas Rangers from Inheritance

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"THE TEXAS RANGERS" from the old time radio show "Inheritance" aired June 13, 1954. Journey back to a chapter in the American past. McNelly arrives in Austin, Texas to head up a "Special Force", a quasi-military branch of the Texas Rangers that operated in southern Texas in 1875-76, financed by cattle ranchers. McNelly's special group had the specific task of bringing order to the Nueces Strip, a hotbed of cattle thievery and banditry, where Juan Cortina, the Mexican military chief for the Rio Grande frontier, was conducting periodic guerrilla operations against the local ranchers. The program is produced in co-operation with The American Legion.

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The Saga of Annie O'Toole - Bonanza

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The Saga of Annie O'Toole adapted for radio from Bonanza aired October 24, 1959. Annie O'Toole and her father head out to the Washoe Diggings after her boyfriend, Swede Lundberg, returns with the deeds to two mines. Annie takes one of the deeds in return for the grub stake she gave Swede. Upon her arrival in Nevada, her father dies and she meets up with the Cartwrights. Against Adam's advice (and with his help), Annie decides to open up a restaurant to supply meals to the hungry miners. Things seem to be going well until Swede shows up with another man who claims that Annie's mine is his.

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My Darling Clementine - Lux Radio Theater

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My Darling Clementine from Lux Radio Theater aired April 28, 1947 starring Henry Fonda, Richard Conte and Cathy Downs. A romance/adventure of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, Doc Holiday and the Clanton Gang in old Tombstone, Arizona.

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