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Original Airdate: Dec. 28, 1946
Starring Brooke Temple as Red Ryder
There is a fierce snowstorm raging on Ghost Mountain and lives are endangered, but all these thieves can think about is stealing $40,000 worth of gold.
The Red Ryder radio series began February 3, 1942, on the Blue Network broadcast three times a week at 7:30 pm Pacific time. When the Blue also acquired The Lone Ranger from the Mutual Broadcasting System, Mutual decided to compete by airing Red Ryder in the same time period. Thus, Red Ryder aired on the East Coast that year from May 20 to September 9 on Mutual. The series beat The Lone Ranger in the Hooper ratings, but the success was short-lived. Red Ryder was sold to a regional sponsor, Langendorf Bread, and after four months was no longer heard in the East.
Mutual and Langendorf continued the series on the West Coast Don Lee Network through the 1940s at 7:30 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, always with the familiar organ theme, "The Dying Cowboy" ("Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie").
Announcers on the show included Ben Alexander and Art Gilmore.
The continuing characters of the comic strip were also found in the radio series, produced by Brad Brown with writer-director Paul Franklin and writer Albert Van Antwerp. Reed Hadley portrayed Red Ryder on radio from 1942 to 1944, followed by Carlton KaDell (1945), and Brooke Temple (1946–51). Arthur Q. Bryan had the role of Roland "Rawhide" Rolinson, and Red's sidekick Buckskin was played by Horace Murphy. Jim Mather provided Indian voices.
Numerous actors played Little Beaver: one of the most notable was suspected murderer Robert Blake (credited as Bobby Blake), Tommy Cook and Frank Bresee (1942–46), Henry Blair (1944–47), Johnny McGovern (1947–50), and Sammy Ogg (1950–51). During the same mid-1940s time frame, Henry Blair also portrayed Ricky Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Billed as "America's famous fighting cowboy," Red Ryder was notable because he usually did not kill his enemies but instead aimed for the hand to disarm them. Such sound effects were handled by James Dick, Monty Fraser, and Bob Turnbull.
Langendorf Bread:
Bernard Langendorf founded the bakery in 1896, a small bakery in San Francisco, CA. In 1926 the firm moved to San Jose, CA where it operated out of a small plant on Race Street. In 1952 the bakery moved to a new larger facility on 7th Street at Phelan Avenue. It remained family owned until 1964. Langendorf had manufacturing facilities in San Diego, San Jose (headquarters), Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. In 1964 the bakery was purchased by American Bakeries.
Original Airdate: Dec. 28, 1946
Starring Brooke Temple as Red Ryder
There is a fierce snowstorm raging on Ghost Mountain and lives are endangered, but all these thieves can think about is stealing $40,000 worth of gold.
The Red Ryder radio series began February 3, 1942, on the Blue Network broadcast three times a week at 7:30 pm Pacific time. When the Blue also acquired The Lone Ranger from the Mutual Broadcasting System, Mutual decided to compete by airing Red Ryder in the same time period. Thus, Red Ryder aired on the East Coast that year from May 20 to September 9 on Mutual. The series beat The Lone Ranger in the Hooper ratings, but the success was short-lived. Red Ryder was sold to a regional sponsor, Langendorf Bread, and after four months was no longer heard in the East.
Mutual and Langendorf continued the series on the West Coast Don Lee Network through the 1940s at 7:30 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, always with the familiar organ theme, "The Dying Cowboy" ("Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie").
Announcers on the show included Ben Alexander and Art Gilmore.
The continuing characters of the comic strip were also found in the radio series, produced by Brad Brown with writer-director Paul Franklin and writer Albert Van Antwerp. Reed Hadley portrayed Red Ryder on radio from 1942 to 1944, followed by Carlton KaDell (1945), and Brooke Temple (1946–51). Arthur Q. Bryan had the role of Roland "Rawhide" Rolinson, and Red's sidekick Buckskin was played by Horace Murphy. Jim Mather provided Indian voices.
Numerous actors played Little Beaver: one of the most notable was suspected murderer Robert Blake (credited as Bobby Blake), Tommy Cook and Frank Bresee (1942–46), Henry Blair (1944–47), Johnny McGovern (1947–50), and Sammy Ogg (1950–51). During the same mid-1940s time frame, Henry Blair also portrayed Ricky Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Billed as "America's famous fighting cowboy," Red Ryder was notable because he usually did not kill his enemies but instead aimed for the hand to disarm them. Such sound effects were handled by James Dick, Monty Fraser, and Bob Turnbull.
Langendorf Bread:
Bernard Langendorf founded the bakery in 1896, a small bakery in San Francisco, CA. In 1926 the firm moved to San Jose, CA where it operated out of a small plant on Race Street. In 1952 the bakery moved to a new larger facility on 7th Street at Phelan Avenue. It remained family owned until 1964. Langendorf had manufacturing facilities in San Diego, San Jose (headquarters), Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. In 1964 the bakery was purchased by American Bakeries.
