Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1950–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 104
- Genre
- western
is a fictional cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and later novels. Here the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'. Beginning in 1935, the character, played by William Boyd was transformed into the clean-cut hero of a series of 66 immensely popular films, only a f
1952 · 111951 · 34
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 6 of 45Rough but complete · 39 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: HopalongCassidy
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
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. The Cold Country · 24 Feb 1951
- 2. The Buckshot Badman · 3 Mar 1951
- 3. The Boss of Vinegar Bend · 10 Mar 1951
The Santa Claus Rustlers
15 Mar 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 15 March 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Cowtown Trouble Shooters
8 Mar 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 8 March 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Stampede at Semole's Crossing
1 Mar 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 March 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Right Rope Wrong Neck
23 Feb 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 23 February 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Women of Windy Ridge
16 Feb 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 16 February 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Bull Fight
9 Feb 1952 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 9 February 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Hopalong Cassidy 0098 Death Comes Invited
2 Feb 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 2 February 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Hopalong Cassidy 0097 California or Bust
27 Jan 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 27 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
27 Jan 1952
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 27 Jan 1952.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1950–1952
Other series the network carried while Hopalong Cassidy 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
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