Western · Syndicated (Bruce Eells)
Frontier Town
September 26, 1952 – August 14, 1953 · 47 broadcasts
Frontier Town is a syndicated radio Western with an unusual hero: Chad Remington isn't a marshal but a frontier LAWYER, drawn back to the ranching town of Dos Rios by his father's murder and staying on to fight the territory's crooks with law as often as with a six-gun. Produced on transcription discs by Bruce Eells's Broadcasters Program Syndicate around 1948-49 and sold to stations across the country, it ran 47 half-hour episodes. Remington was played first by the young Jeff Chandler -- billed on air as "Tex" Chandler, in one of his earliest starring roles -- and, from the twenty-fourth episode on, by Reed Hadley. The show's most-remembered voice belongs to the sidekick: Cherokee O'Bannon, a reformed snake-oil salesman played by Wade Crosby as a broad W. C. Fields impression. Writer-director Paul Franklin, principally a comedy man, gives O'Bannon his florid patter while keeping the frontier-justice plots moving; Bob Mitchell and Ivan Ditmars supply the spare organ score.
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47 of 47 held (100% complete)
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1952
September 26, 1952
Return to Dos Rios
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October 3, 1952
His Name Is John Smith
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October 10, 1952
Todd Ford
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October 17, 1952
Marie
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October 24, 1952
The Poisoned Waterhole
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October 31, 1952
Emily Bracket
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November 7, 1952
The Seminole Strip
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November 14, 1952
The Chavez Family
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November 21, 1952
The Opening of Tioga Reserve
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November 28, 1952
Death and Taxes
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December 5, 1952
Six Gun Justice
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December 12, 1952
Return of the Badmen
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December 19, 1952
The Valley of Lawless Men
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December 26, 1952
Guns of Wrath
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1953
January 2, 1953
Her Name Is Bourbon Kate
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January 9, 1953
Trouble Is His Target
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January 16, 1953
Land Grab
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January 23, 1953
Jailbird Rangers
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January 30, 1953
Five Gun Final
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February 6, 1953
Valley of the Varmints
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February 13, 1953
All Trails Lead to Trouble
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February 20, 1953
Forest Fire
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February 27, 1953
Thunder over Texas
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March 6, 1953
Gun Trouble Valley
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March 13, 1953
Branding the Badlands
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March 20, 1953
South of Santa Fe
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March 27, 1953
Maverick Town
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April 3, 1953
The Coach That Arrived Missing
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April 10, 1953
Western Empire
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April 17, 1953
Six Gun Lawyer
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April 24, 1953
Sundown Valley
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May 1, 1953
The Glory Trail
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May 8, 1953
Trouble Rides the Rails
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May 15, 1953
Open Range
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May 22, 1953
The Chase
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May 29, 1953
Bullets for Boot Hill
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June 5, 1953
On the Prod
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June 12, 1953
The Trail Drive
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June 19, 1953
Fort Disaster
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June 26, 1953
End of the Trail
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July 3, 1953
Canyon of Wanted Men
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July 10, 1953
Days of the Road Agent
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July 17, 1953
Stampede
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July 24, 1953
The Badlands
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July 31, 1953
Boom Town
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August 7, 1953
Where Men Are Men
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August 14, 1953
Lady Luck
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The Story
Frontier Town is a syndicated radio Western with an unusual hero: Chad Remington isn't a marshal but a frontier LAWYER, drawn back to the ranching town of Dos Rios by his father's murder and staying on to fight the territory's crooks with law as often as with a six-gun. Produced on transcription discs by Bruce Eells's Broadcasters Program Syndicate around 1948-49 and sold to stations across the country, it ran 47 half-hour episodes. Remington was played first by the young Jeff Chandler -- billed on air as "Tex" Chandler, in one of his earliest starring roles -- and, from the twenty-fourth episode on, by Reed Hadley. The show's most-remembered voice belongs to the sidekick: Cherokee O'Bannon, a reformed snake-oil salesman played by Wade Crosby as a broad W. C. Fields impression. Writer-director Paul Franklin, principally a comedy man, gives O'Bannon his florid patter while keeping the frontier-justice plots moving; Bob Mitchell and Ivan Ditmars supply the spare organ score.
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