All Star Western Theatre — 1947
52 episodes broadcast in 1947.
Tex Ritter arrives wearing a Ranger's badge and sets about taming a lawless town.
At a ranch the Riders are visiting, a killer's stinginess with the loot is exactly what trips him up.
Down to their last few dollars, the Riders gamble it all on a rodeo. Monty Montana guests.
A planted federal agent bags the crooks while the cast blows its lines -- so clumsy it circles back to funny. Johnny Mack Brown guests.
A tongue-in-cheek call on the "No-Washy" tribe, with Ken Card.
Jerry Colonna spins a comic account of his life out West -- including how he came by that moustache.
The Riders ride down into Mexico, a country of senoritas and cattle thieves.
The town's feared outlaw proves a good deal gentler than his reputation. Donald "Red" Barry guests.
A dude-ranch owner arrives incognito to size up the rodeo her hired hands are staging. Virginia Mayo guests.
The Riders try to broker peace between two old-timers who dearly love to hate each other.
A bashful cowhand gets a crash course in winning over the woman who owns the outfit. Jackie Cooper guests.
Romance blossoms at a dude ranch stocked with two marriageable sisters. Ken Card guests.
Singing cowboy Monte Hale, between color pictures, stars in a Western written to order.
The three Riders leave their ranch jobs behind on orders to push a herd all the way to Abilene.
A little detective work begins where all knowledge does -- the town barber shop. Jimmy Wakely guests.
Dale and the boys foil a scheme to snap up land on the cheap before the railroad arrives.
A crooked sheriff angles for re-election by pretending to have captured a notorious outlaw. Donald "Red" Barry guests.
May 17, 1947
Bushwhacked for his gold, an old prospector loses his beloved burro "Little Hoof" -- a rare downbeat ending for the show.
A disabled boy is being exploited by the "friend" who uses him as cover for bank jobs. Monty Montana guests.
A tall-tale comedy adventure about a pair of helium rustlers. Smiley Burnette guests.
A big-hearted immigrant woman is burdened with a no-good son.
A pint-sized nine-year-old spitfire runs the Riders ragged -- and comes out on top.
A rancher is murdered, and Foy discovers the killer is none other than the judge.
A Chinese laundryman quietly works out who is jumping the local claims, and spares a young woman a ruinous mistake.
Kit Carson's ghost lends a hand to a daffy old-timer bent on rounding up a gang of badmen.
A rancher robbed three times over braces for it to happen yet again.
A young woman heads West expecting a mail-order husband and discovers the whole thing was a heartless prank.
An old prospector is taken in by a scheming city woman.
A tender, sad story of a little girl shot by her deranged father. Dale Evans guests.
A thoughtful Western that asks what becomes of water once it leaves the canteen -- and what a life is worth.
Salt air blows through a Western as the boys join a Coast Guard friend to clean out a floating casino.
September 27, 1947
The cure for a hypochondriac? Simple -- just catch something contagious.
A young couple's baby arrives the same day fire takes their house, and the neighbors rally round.
A woman rancher is accused of murdering the husband who left to make his own way.
"Persuading Peggy" and her vanishing ink are back at their tricks.
A south-of-the-border outlaw takes a smitten young cowhand under his wing, against card sharps and long romantic odds.
The peculiar saga of Uncle Edgar, an Easter Bunny escaped from the asylum.
Two claim-jumpers find themselves trapped together by a snowstorm.
The tall tale of a frontier character known as "Two Bit" Michaelson.
The boys expose a "haunting" that's really a scheme to grab land on the cheap. Eddy Arnold guests.
A cranky old Texas doctor bristles at the town's new physician -- not knowing the young man is his own daughter's secret beau.
Foy and the boys raise a posse and set out after a murderer, with a swing turn on "Slipped Disc" along the way.
A Western retelling of the Nativity.
Charlie McCarthy heads West and Mortimer Snerd goes down on the farm, with Edgar Bergen.
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