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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Roy Rogers Show" - The Cash & Carry Rodeo (01-22-53)

February 06, 2013
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Roy Rogers Show" - The Cash & Carry Rodeo (Aired January 22, 1953)


Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady, (who drove a jeep called "Nellybelle") or the crotchety George "Gabby" Hayes. Roy's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Dale's nickname was "Queen of the West." Roy Rogers was born to Andrew ("Andy") and Mattie (Womack) Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his family lived in a tenement building on 2nd Street. (Riverfront Stadium was constructed at this location in 1970 and Rogers would later joke that he had been born at second base.) Dissatisfied with his job and city life, Andy Slye and his brother Will built a 12-by-50-foot houseboat from salvage lumber, and, in July 1912, the Slye family floated on the Ohio River towards Portsmouth, Ohio.

THIS EPISODE:

January 22, 1953. NBC network. "The Cash and Carry Rodeo". Sponsored by: Post Cereals. Cob Collins, a professional but crooked rodeo contestant, plans to compete against Roy and Pat, and to show them up! Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Frank Hemingway, Herb Butterfield, Junius Matthews, Jim Bannon, Howard McNear, Art Rush (producer), Fran Van Hartesfeldt (writer, director), Milton Charles (music), Art Ballinger (announcer). 26:12. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.


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