The Author Meets the Critics
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 September 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's The Author Meets the Critics collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1945–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 259
- Genre
- western
Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German shepherd Bullet were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1964.
1954 · 11953 · 21952 · 51951 · 21948 · 11945 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Rough but complete · 45 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: The_Roy_Rogers_Show
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 5 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 1945, in original transmission order.
- 1. Roy Rogers Guest Sarah Berner · 23 Jan 1945
- 2. Roy Rogers The Horse Thieves of Paradise Valley · 5 Sep 1948
- 3. Roy Rogers Ed Bailey's Bad Luck · 12 Oct 1951
- 01
Roy Rogers Guest Sarah Berner
23 Jan 1945 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “The_Roy_Rogers_Show”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Roy Rogers The Horse Thieves of Paradise Valley
5 Sep 1948 · 28 min
Broadcast 5 September 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
Roy Rogers Ed Bailey's Bad Luck
12 Oct 1951 · 29 min
Broadcast 12 October 1951. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
Roy Rogers 198 The Map
30 Nov 1951 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “The_Roy_Rogers_Show”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Roy Rogers 204 Cattle Swindle
11 Jan 1952 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 11 January 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
Roy Rogers Ride for Life
22 Feb 1952 · 30 min
Broadcast 22 February 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
Roy Rogers 217 Rene Eigan Case
11 Apr 1952 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 11 April 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Roy Rogers Fred Apt Wants to Buy a Ranch
9 Oct 1952 · 25 min
Broadcast 9 October 1952. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same night on the air
5 Sep 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 5 Sep 1948.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 5 September 1948. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Box 13
Broadcast on Mutual. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Under Arrest
Broadcast 5 September 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1945–1955
Other series the network carried while The Roy Rogers Show 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 Roy Rogers Show
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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