Broadcast on December 13, 1953, this show is also known under the titles of The Actors and Barnum and the Thespians. The program received this small notice in The Times Recorder, Zanesville, OH. It was also mentioned, along with other NBC Sunday night shows, in this display ad from The Fresno Bee, Fresno, CA. The…
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The Six Shooter – A Pressing Engagement
A Pressing Engagement was broadcast on December 6, 1953. The title is also sometimes listed as The Groom, Britt is Engaged or Britt Ponset Gets Married. The newspapers advertised this particular show very well, including this photo ad which ran in the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, AZ, on the day before the broadcast. On the…
The Six Shooter – Sheriff Billy
The lack of official titles for these stories leads to trouble once again as this show is know by at least four other names – Billy Riddle, New Sheriff, The Sheriff’s Old Man and Man and Boy. At least one newspaper, The Post-Standard, Syracuse, NY, ran a nice photo ad this week. As has become…
The Six Shooter – Gabriel Starbuck
This show is also sometimes known as Sheriff Gabe, Elderly Sheriff and Put Out to Pasture. It was broadcast on November 22, 1953. Again, thanks to The Fresno Bee, Fresno, CA, we have a short newspaper preview of the story line. Joining Stewart in the cast are Herb Vigran as Breezy, John Stephenson as Alf…
The Six Shooter – Escape from Smoke Falls
Escape from Smoke Falls, sometimes known as Love Rivals, was broadcast on Sunday, November 15, 1953. As the show was ending its second month on the air, previews in newspapers were getting fewer. Most papers simply had the title in its radio listings. One exception this week was The Fresno Bee, Fresno, CA, which had…
The Six Shooter – The Capture of Stacy Gault
This installment of The Six Shooter was broadcast on November 8, 1953. The following preview is from The Decatur Herald, Decatur, IL, on the day of the broadcast. In the southern California area, the show was part of a display ad in The Fresno Bee, Fresno, CA. Starring with Stewart are Eleanor Audley as Ma…
The Six Shooter – Ben Scofield
Since most of The Six Shooter scripts carried no official title, many shows are known by several. Ben Scofield is also called Horseshoe Clue, The Sherriff’s Son and Holdup at Clay City. This is the third time this particular script had been used by Stewart. It first appeared on the Hollywood Star Playhouse series on…
The Six Shooter – Red Lawson’s Revenge
There is a bit of trivia involved with Red Lawson’s Revenge. This is the only story in The Six Shooter series which was not written by Frank Burt. This one was written by Les Crutchfield, who also wrote scripts for other radio shows including Gunsmoke, Dr. Kildare, Escape, Fort Laramie and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar…
The Six Shooter – Rink Larkin
Rink Larkin (aka The Mine, Revenge in Petersville and Sins of the Father) was broadcast on October 18, 1953. Eleven year old Rink Larkin, played by thirteen year old Sammy Ogg, tries to steal some food from Britt, but is caught. Britt takes the boy along with him to Petersville, where he learns from Sheriff…
The Six Shooter – Silver Annie
Broadcast on October 11, 1953, Silver Annie was the final show in the series to be sponsored by Coleman. Jeanette Nolan has the role of Silver Annie, Dan O’Herlihy plays her cousin Clyde, Herb Vigran is Judge Drayton, Parley Baer is Doc Cross and Robert Griffin plays both Thad Nelson and the sheriff. As in…
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