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Melody Ranch

Networks
CBS (as its archives name them)
Heard
1937–1956
Episodes
75

MELODY RANCH

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"Hard-riding, sweet-singing, cowboy picture star Gene Autry" was heard each Sunday evening on radios across America via CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Gene's Melody Ranch radio show aired for an unprecedented 16 years (between 1940 and 1956), featuring songs, comedy and action filled drama. Throughout the run, the show's sponsor was cool, refreshing Doublemint Gum. OTRR Certification Information: Series Name: Melody Ranch Certification Status: OTRR Certified Accurate Certification Date: September 14, 2011 Certification Version: Version 1 Number of CDs: 2 From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Note" Section below for more information on the OTRR.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Radio Broadcast

    · 3:19

  2. The Story of Gene's Guitar

    · No. 137 · 31 min

  3. Doc Reardon Is Tried for Murder

    · 28 min

  4. Tracking Counterfeiters

    · No. 138 · 31 min

  5. Heart As Big As Texas

    · 29 min

  6. Buck and Kate

    · No. 143 · 25 min

  7. 12th Anniversary Show (First Song - South)

    · No. 150 · 29 min

  8. Election for Sheriff

    · 30 min

  9. Double Poison First Song She's My Sunflower

    · 26 min

  10. Pat Buttram, Private Eye

    · 23 min

  11. Champion Saves Gene's Life aka Ringo Mine

    · 24 min

  12. Last Show

    · 24 min

  13. Clem Olson (Lonesomest Cowboy)

    No date given · 24 min

  14. Plane Crashes in Snow (Memories)

    No date given · 23 min

  15. Robbed And Shot (Old Fashioned Hoedown)

    No date given · 26 min

  16. Sally Fulton (Bloom Is On The Sage)

    No date given · 25 min

  17. Fred Collier Is Robbed

    No date given · No. 2 · 30 min

  18. Gene Is Accused of Murdering Chet Simmons

    No date given · No. 3 · 30 min

  19. Smuggling of New Medicine (K-13)

    No date given · No. 4 · 30 min

  20. Marshal Bart Jackson

    No date given · No. 5 · 25 min

  21. How Gene Got Champion

    No date given · No. 7 · 29 min

  22. Pat Is Kidnapped - (First Song - Cowboy Joe)

    No date given · No. 8 · 29 min

  23. Newly Elected Sheriff Smuggles Aliens

    No date given · No. 9 · 29 min

  24. Gene Autry xx xx xx Jack Hardy's Gang

    No date given · No. 11 · 30 min

  25. Cattle drive to Carsonville

    No date given · No. 18 · 29 min

  26. Gene Helps Sheriff Dobbs (First Song - Down Yonder)

    No date given · No. 22 · 23 min

  27. Mike Connors (1st Song - Dear Hearts (different one))

    No date given · No. 26 · 24 min

  28. Steve Williams Asks for a Loan

    No date given · No. 47 · 24 min

  29. Old Time Cow Puncher (First Song - Dear Hearts)

    No date given · No. 79 · 24 min

  30. Cattle Herds Get Mixed up

    No date given · No. 81 · 23 min

  31. Gene Autry xx xx xx Trouble at Hermit's Crossing

    No date given · No. 92 · 23 min

  32. Robber Crashes Plane

    No date given · No. 93 · 24 min

  33. Smuggling of X-25 Medicine

    No date given · No. 94 · 24 min

  34. Murdering Art Richards

    No date given · No. 95 · 24 min

  35. A Man Called Mother Miller

    No date given · No. 96 · 23 min

  36. Fake Train Robbery

    No date given · No. 97 · 23 min

  37. Mystery of the Concertina

    No date given · No. 98 · 23 min

  38. No Water (First Song - Dixie Cannonball)

    No date given · No. 99 · 24 min

  39. Pat and the Cattle Rustlers

    No date given · No. 100 · 23 min

  40. Convict Looking for a Job

    No date given · No. 101 · 22 min

  41. Gene Autry xx xx xx Gene's Friend Carol Is Kidnapped

    No date given · No. 102 · 23 min

  42. Gene Helps Mark Meet His Mortgage

    No date given · No. 104 · 24 min

  43. Runaway Little Joe

    No date given · No. 108 · 24 min

  44. Bank Robbers Disappear

    No date given · No. 109 · 24 min

  45. Maisie Clark Runs a Roulette Wheel

    No date given · No. 110 · 26 min

  46. Gene Goes After El Gancho

    No date given · No. 121 · 25 min

  47. Dan Furgeson Gang (First Song - El Rancho Grande)

    No date given · No. 123 · 25 min

  48. Infected Cattle (First Song - Four Leaf Clover)

    No date given · No. 126 · 24 min

  49. Overthrowing a Tyrant

    No date given · No. 127 · 24 min

  50. Poisoned Cattle (First Song - Idaho)

    No date given · No. 133 · 23 min

  51. Indians Accused of Crimes

    No date given · No. 163 · 23 min

  52. Mama Maria Needs Help

    No date given · No. 164 · 24 min

  53. High Water Prices

    No date given · No. 167 · 24 min

  54. Pat Loses Champion (First Song - Till)

    No date given · No. 168 · 25 min

  55. Fishing Trip (First Song - El Rancho Grande)

    No date given · No. 169 · 24 min

  56. Gene Hires Bill Collins

    No date given · No. 170 · 24 min

  57. Gene Autry xx xx xx Hunt for Jim Snyder's Killer

    No date given · No. 171 · 24 min

  58. Mike Carter (First Song - Out On The Texas Plain)

    No date given · No. 172 · 24 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Melody Ranch - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 75 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    CC BY-NC-ND 3.0: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

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