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Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters
Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters
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Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters

Mutual

Mutual · 1939–1950

Broadcasts

29

Cadence

Seasonal

Rated

PG

Since

1939

The run

Network
Mutual
Years active
1939–1950
Surviving broadcasts
29
Genre
western

(30 Episodes) Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters: Thomas (Tom) Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor, starring in many of the early silent Western pictures. He is said to have made as many as 336 films between the years 1910 & 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar & is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors to follow. SELIG POLYSCOPE: Mix began his film career as a supporting cast member with the Selig Polyscope Company. His first shoot in 1910 at their studio in the Edendale district of Los Angeles (now known as Echo Park) was Ranch Life in the Great Southwest, in which he showed his skills as a cattle wrangler. The film was a success and Mix became an early motion picture star. Olive gave birth to their daughter Ruth on July 13, 1912. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “TomMixRalstonStraightShooters”; these recordings are in the public domain.

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Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: TomMixRalstonStraightShooters

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

8 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 7 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

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Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. TM 1939-03-10 Jane's Father · 10 Mar 1939
  2. 2. TM 1941-04-18 Hidden Mesa · 18 Apr 1941
  3. 3. TM 1941-12-01 The Mystery of the Black Cat · 1 Dec 1941
  • 01

    TM 1939-03-10 Jane's Father

    10 Mar 1939 · 15 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 10 March 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 02

    TM 1941-04-18 Hidden Mesa

    18 Apr 1941 · 19 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 18 April 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 03

    TM 1941-12-01 The Mystery of the Black Cat

    1 Dec 1941 · 13 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 December 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 04

    TM 1941-12-08 The Mystery of the Black Cat

    8 Dec 1941 · 14 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 December 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 05

    TM 1941-12-15 Border Smugglers

    15 Dec 1941 · 11 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 15 December 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 06

    TM 1942-01-01 The Mystery Of The Master Mind

    1 Jan 1942 · 11 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1942. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 07

    TM 1942-02-01 Bay of Whales

    1 Feb 1942 · 15 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 February 1942. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

  • 08

    TM 1944-06-21 Vanishing Herd 1

    21 Jun 1944 · 12 min

    Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 21 June 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection

Same night on the air

10 Aug 1945

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 10 Aug 1945.

Transmission

10 August

1945

Front Page Farrell

David Banters with Carol

Network

Mutual / NBC

Slot

Friday

Running time

14 min

Episodes of the radio series "Front Page Farrell".

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Transmission

10 August

1945

Front Page Farrell

FpgF 1945-08-10 #1745 David jokes with Kate Ward (aka Life in the Newsroom

Network

Mutual / NBC

Slot

Friday

Running time

14 min

(09 Episodes) "Front Page Farrell" was a 15 minute daily, "Husband & Wife Detective Team" Soap Opera/Crime Serial, broadcast by Mutual/NBC from June 23, 1941 thru March 26, 1954. This serial was a Soap Opera disguised as a Crime Serial, to coax the working-class man to sit by the radio, after his long hard day at work. Judging by the length of the run, the idea worked! Because this detective soap opera took place during WWII, many of the episodes were taken directly from real life, more specifically, from the Office of War Information. From 1941-06-23 thru 1942-03-13, Front Page Farrell starre

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Transmission

10 August

1945

Lorenzo Jones

lorenzo jones lorenzo jones

Network

NBC

Slot

Friday

Running time

14 min

10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera

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Transmission

10 August

1945

Lorenzo Jones

LorenzoJones- Lorenzo Accused of Robbery

Network

NBC

Slot

Friday

Running time

14 min

The few surviving episodes of this classic comic radio soap--an unusual entry from the fabled Frank and Anne Hummert soap factory. Karl Swenson as Lorenzo Jones; Betty Garde and Lucille Wall as his wife, Belle; Joseph Julian as Sandy Matson; John Brown or Frank Behrens as Jim Barker; Mary Wickes, Grace Keddy, or Nancy Sheridan as Irma Barker. Announcers: Don Lowe or George Putnam. Writers: Theodore and Mathilde Ferro.

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