Show

Num of CDs

Num of  Shows

Price

Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid and his likeable but simple partner Pancho were a couple of lovable rogues and there was usually a lovely senorita around in every episode who fell madly in love with Cisco. These two Mexican bandits, travelling from sunset to sunset (because that’s where they always road off to at the end of each episode) robbing the rich, but I wouldn’t say giving it to the poor. At least they did it in a kind and humorous way. It was more a question of the victim being relieved of the heavy burden of his or her riches, rather than having some of their prized possessions taken away from them.

2

105

$7.50

Fort Laramie

Never as famous as Gunsmoke (also produced by Norman MacDonnell), but a quality western drama all the same. MacDonnell described it as "a monument to ordinary men who lived in extraordinary times ... their enemies were the cold, rugged, unchartered country, the heat, the cold, disease, boredom, and, perhaps last of all, hostile Indians".

1

41

$5.50

Frontier Fighters / American Trail / Horizons West

1

66

$5.50

Frontier Town

1

61

$5.50

Gene Autry

1

55

$5.50

Gunsmoke

Matt Dillon was the Marshall of Dodge City, Kansas in this thirty-minute western adventure. There were over 480 episodes broadcast in the 9 years it had spanned. The opening of the show left little doubt that Dillon was the law; “Around Dodge City, and into the territory on the west, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers: that’s with a US Marshall and the smell of gunsmoke! Gunsmoke! … Starring William Conrad the story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I’m that man … Matt Dillon. United States marshal … the first man they look for, and the last man they want to meet … it’s a chancy job, and it makes man watchful … and a little lonely.”

4

431

$12.50

Have Gun Will Travel

A western featuring Paladin, a gunfighter wandering in search of adventure. He does the work that others would not or could not do for themselves and although he does them for a price he is still a man with a conscience. His headquarters is the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where Paladin lives and has a cordial but cool relationship with the Bellhop whom he refers to as Heyboy. In the dictionary a Paladin is a chivalrous person a knight errant and Paladin uses the symbol of a white chess knight on his card announcing his services with the words “Have Gun, Will Travel/Wire Paladin/San Francisco”. He often wines and dines beautiful women in need of his services and presents them with his card. Each show starts with a great opening line, which on their own are enough to leave you wanting more.

1

106

$5.50

Hopalong Cassidy

1

104

$5.50

Lone Ranger

There could not possibly be a person alive today who has not heard, at some point in their life, of the Lone Ranger. Almost everything about the show became famous: the music, the silver bullets used by him, the great horse Silver and Tonto’s horse Scout. The program was conceived by George W Trendle and written by Fran Striker, together they created over 900 episodes.

10

991

$30.00

Red Ryder

Red Ryder lived in Painted Valley with his aunt the “Duchess”, his partner Buckskin, his Indian ward Little Beaver and his horse Thunder. The hero was first seen in a series of short stories by writer-cartoonist Fred Harman, who adapted it as a comic strip for the Los Angeles Times in 1938 before it finally became a series of thirty-minute radio shows.

1

54

$5.50

Roy Rogers

1

64

$5.50

Six Shooter / Dr. Six-Gun

Britt Ponset, the six shooter, was a slow-talking, easy-going gentleman drifter, but dangerous when pushed into a gunfight. He was well known and well liked by people wherever he wandered - often in New Mexico. They were usually humorous adventure stories.

1

56

$5.50

Texas Rangers, Tales of the

Joel McCrea stars as Texas Ranger Jace Pearson in this thirty-minute western adventure series. The shows are all re-enactments of incidents from Texas Ranger history. The Texas lawman and his trusty steed, Charcoal, would be tracking a criminal, often a killer, throughout the vast 260,000 square miles of Texas.

1

92

$5.50

Tom Mix / Bobby Benson / Straight Arrow

1

51

$5.50

Western Round-Up

1

80

$5.50

Wild Bill Hickok

This juvenile western followed the same format as the TV show of the same name that ran throughout the same years. This format certainly was not new as the charismatic hero and comic side-kick was something that had been done before with Hopalong Cassidy and The Cisco Kid, and to some extent with the Lone Ranger. The basic plot is usually along the lines of Hickok and his sidekick, Jingles, blundering into trouble, fighting their way out of it somehow, and then riding off into the sunset in readiness for next weeks trials and tribulations.

3

262

$10.00