Red Ryder
Blue / Mutual
Blue / Mutual · 1942–1949
Broadcasts
65
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
- Network
- Blue / Mutual
- Years active
- 1942–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 65
- Genre
- western
Adapted from Fred Harman's newspaper strip, Red Ryder began on the Blue Network in 1942 and rode on through the 1940s, pairing the Painted Valley rancher with his Navajo ward Little Beaver.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
16 dated broadcasts across 85 years on the air, with 83 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dead Air · 13 May 2025
- 2. The Long Silence · 20 May 2025
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 27 May 2025
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 48 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 26 min
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 41 min
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 56 min
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 19 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 34 min
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 49 min
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