Stroke Of Fate
Broadcast 4 October 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1953–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 54
- Genre
- western
The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures. Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt.
1954 · 71953 · 5
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 1 of 40Listenable · 39 of 40
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_The_Six_Shooter_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
9 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1953
1954
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1953, in original transmission order.
- 1. Audition Show · 15 Jul 1953
- 2. Stampede · 4 Oct 1953
- 3. Red Lawson's Revenge · 25 Oct 1953
- 01
Audition Show
15 Jul 1953 · 23 min
Broadcast 15 July 1953. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Stampede
4 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 4 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 03
Red Lawson's Revenge
25 Oct 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 25 October 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 04
Escape From Smoke Falls
15 Nov 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 November 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
More Than Kin
13 Dec 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 December 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 06
A Friend In Need
3 Jan 1954 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 January 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
The Silver Buckle
17 Jan 1954 · 28 min
Broadcast 17 January 1954. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
Quiet City
14 Feb 1954 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 February 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
4 Oct 1953
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 4 Oct 1953.
Theatre Royal
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1953–1954
Other series the network carried while The Six Shooter 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.
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