Melody Ranch — surviving broadcasts

Transmission

4 January

No. 1

1940

Gene Gets Discovered (promo for Doublemint gum dealers

Running time

12 min

MELODY RANCH "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"…

Transmission

29 June

No. 2

1947

The surviving run

Gene Gets Discovered (promo for Doublemint gum dealers

Gene Autry The Devil's Saint First Song - I Hate To Say Goodbye To The Prairie

Christmas Show (First Song - Here Comes Santa Claus)

Uncle Billy Harlow (First Song - Make The San Fernando Valley My Home)

Gene Autry The Story of Gene's Guitar

Doc Reardon Is Tried for Murder

Tracking Counterfeiters

The Caleb Hooten Story (First Song - Ragtime Cowboy Joe)

Cody Bennett Dams up Lake (First Song - Gimme That Old Time Religion)

Buck and Kate

12th Anniversary Show (First Song - South)

John Loves Martha (First Song - The Bells Are Ringing)

Gene Autry Double Poison First Song - She's My Sunflower

Church in Willow Valley (First Song - Tweedle-O-Twill)

Gene Autry Champion Saves Gene's Life aka Ringo Mine

Last Show

Radio Broadcast

Heart As Big As Texas

Election for Sheriff

Cowhand Johnny Bond (First Song - Sioux City Sue)

Gene Autry Pat Buttram, Private Eye

A Man Called Mother Miller

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Aunt Martha When You're Smiling

Bank Robbers Disappear

Cattle Herds Get Mixed up

Cattle drive to Carsonville

Clem Olson (Lonesomest Cowboy)

Convict Looking for a Job

Dan Furgeson Gang (First Song - El Rancho Grande)

Fake Train Robbery

Fishing Trip (First Song - El Rancho Grande)

Fred Collier Is Robbed

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Fred Wallace & the Black Arrow Gang First Song - All Dressed Up To Smile

Gene Goes After El Gancho

Gene Helps Mark Meet His Mortgage

Gene Helps Sheriff Dobbs (First Song - Down Yonder)

Gene Hires Bill Collins

Gene Is Accused of Murdering Chet Simmons

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Gene Joins Land Swindler Cody Bennett First Song - Honey I'm In Love With Yo

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Gene's Friend Carol Is Kidnapped

High Water Prices

Hoof & Mouth Disease Epidemic (First Song - Sioux City Sue)

How Gene Got Champion

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Hunt for Jim Snyder's Killer

Indians Accused of Crimes

Infected Cattle (First Song - Four Leaf Clover)

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Jack Hardy's Gang

Maisie Clark Runs a Roulette Wheel

Mama Maria Needs Help

Marshal Bart Jackson

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

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

Murdering Art Richards

Mystery of the Concertina

New Owner of the Square D (First Song - Rose Of San Antone)

Newly Elected Sheriff Smuggles Aliens

No Water (First Song - Dixie Cannonball)

Old Time Cow Puncher (First Song - Dear Hearts)

Overthrowing a Tyrant

Pat Is Kidnapped - (First Song - Cowboy Joe)

Pat Loses Champion (First Song - Till)

Pat and the Cattle Rustlers

Plane Crashes in Snow (Memories)

Poisoned Cattle (First Song - Idaho)

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Red Madder's Story First Song - Be Honest With Me

Robbed And Shot (Old Fashioned Hoedown)

Robber Crashes Plane

Runaway Little Joe

Sally Fulton (Bloom Is On The Sage)

Sixty Thousand Dollar Riddle (First Song - Gold Can Buy)

Smuggling of New Medicine (K-13)

Smuggling of X-25 Medicine

Steve Williams Asks for a Loan

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx The Vanishing First Song - Honey, I'm in Love With You

Gene Autry xx-xx-xx Trouble at Hermit's Crossing

317102A-Melody Ranch Radio Shows Gene Autry GA-48

317102B-Melody Ranch Radio Shows Gene Autry GA-48

317104A-Melody Ranch Radio Shows Gene Autry GA-49

317104B-Melody Ranch Radio Shows Gene Autry GA-49