The Six Shooter
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 34
- Genre
- detective
Canadian OTR No 7 The series premiered over CKRC on January 3rd 1954 and ran until June 27th 1954. Reportedly performed, recorded and transcribed at the London studios of Towers of London, the series advertised a cast comprised of mostly Canadian ex-patriates to add a more authentic Canadian flavor to the series. In practice we can hear both Lou Jacobi and Arthur Hill in supporting roles during the series, so it would seem apparent that at least two of the episodes of The Queen's Men were recorded in Canada. Both Canadian-born, Lou Jacobi and Arthur Hill went on to distinguished careers on the Stage, in Film and on Television. The Queen's Men is undoubtedly one of only a handful of Radio programmes of the era in which both famous actors appeared at the same time. And authentic it is, as one can tell from the moment the first 'aboot' is uttered in lieu of 'about. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “queens-men-54xxxx-xx-luis-bento-narcotic-smuggling”; 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
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: queens-men-54xxxx-xx-luis-bento-narcotic-smuggling
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
5 dated broadcasts across 15 years on the air, with 14 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 1954, in original transmission order.
- 1. Queen's Men 01 Catching A Train Robber Aka The Anderson Gang · 3 Jan 1954
- 2. Queen's Men 02 Murder Without Any Clues Aka Duncan Underhill · 10 Jan 1954
- 3. Queen's Men 05 Missing Persons Case Aka Andrew Weeks · 31 Jan 1954
- 01
Queen's Men 01 Catching A Train Robber Aka The Anderson Gang
3 Jan 1954 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Queen's Men 02 Murder Without Any Clues Aka Duncan Underhill
10 Jan 1954 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Queen's Men 05 Missing Persons Case Aka Andrew Weeks
31 Jan 1954 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Queen's Men 06 Manslaughter Aka Hit And Run
7 Feb 1954 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Queen's Men 07 McKee Case
14 Feb 1954 · 20 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Queen's Men 08 The Arsonist aka Stone Cold Arson Case aka Philips Case
21 Feb 1954 · 20 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Queen's Men 09 The Stolen Furs Case
28 Feb 1954 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Queen's Men 12 Julien Bordeaux
21 Mar 1954 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
21 Mar 1954
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 21 Mar 1954.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while The Queen's Men was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Queen's Men
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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