Cavalcade of America
Broadcast 11 May 1938. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1920–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 3267
- Genre
- western
"A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver! With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States.
1939 · 11938 · 81928 · 11925 · 11920 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 52 of 54Rough but complete · 2 of 54
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_LoneRanger_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 32 years on the air, with 27 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1920, in original transmission order.
- 1. TheLoneRanger40 Willing To Fight · 16 Nov 1920
- 2. TheLoneRanger38 Matt Badger The Hawk · 10 Sep 1925
- 3. TheLoneRanger40 The Silver Mine That Was Stolen · 11 Dec 1928
- 01
TheLoneRanger40 Willing To Fight
16 Nov 1920 · 29 min
Broadcast 16 November 1920. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
TheLoneRanger38 Matt Badger The Hawk
10 Sep 1925 · 29 min
Broadcast 10 September 1925. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
TheLoneRanger40 The Silver Mine That Was Stolen
11 Dec 1928 · 29 min
Broadcast 11 December 1928. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
The Lone Ranger Contraband Liquor
7 Feb 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 7 February 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
The Lone Ranger Flaming Buildings of the Box X Ranch
11 Apr 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 11 April 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
Bob McAlister Framed for Murder
11 May 1938 · 29 min
Broadcast 11 May 1938. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
The Lone Ranger Doc Stubbs' Snake Oil
13 Jun 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 June 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
The Lone Ranger 38-07-22 (0856) Jeb & Mae Holstead, Wheat Mortgage
22 Jul 1938 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_LoneRanger_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same night on the air
11 May 1938
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 11 May 1938.
Lights Out
Originally broadcast on NBC, 11 May 1938. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1920–1951
Other series the network carried while The Lone Ranger 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 Lone Ranger
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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