The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 188
- Genre
- western
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Cisco_Kid_page2”; 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
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Cisco Kid_540114_Riders_In_The_Night · Date unknown
- 2. Cisco Kid_540909_The_Ace_of_Hearts · Date unknown
- 3. Cisco Kid_570207_Horse_Race_At_Fort_Sumpter · Date unknown
Cisco Kid_540114_Riders_In_The_Night
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Cisco Kid_540909_The_Ace_of_Hearts
Date unknown · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Cisco Kid_570207_Horse_Race_At_Fort_Sumpter
Date unknown · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Cisco Kid_530106_Pancho_and_the_Parrot
Date unknown · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Cisco Kid_530514_Night_Before_the_Fair
Date unknown · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Cisco Kid_531027_Frontier_Justice
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Cisco Kid_540204_Cisco_Takes_The_Trail
Date unknown · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Cisco Kid_550118_The_Voice_of_the_44
Date unknown · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Cisco Kid 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 Cisco Kid
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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