Hopalong Cassidy
What red-blooded kid of the early 1950s didn't listen to Hopalong
Cassidy on the radio. A western that was greater than The Roy
Rogers Show or Gene Autry's Melody Ranch. Hoppy was a hero
to one and all. He and his sidekick, California Carlson, roamed the
Southwest in thrilling stories week after week. Almost every tale had
a little mystery in it, and almost every story ended with Hoppy's
boiserous laugh.
Clarence Mulford, the author of the Hopalong Cassidy stories,
created a hard-fisted, rough and tough cowboy. Everybody liked the
loveable Hoppy of the movies and radio series. He became a hero
in black and on a white horse - a super hero of the West. He rescued
damsels and cowboys in trouble, along with ranchers and bankers
and railroad owners always against the bad guys - robbers, thieves,
rustlers and the like.
William Boyd was Hoppy and his sidekick was played by either Andy
Clyde or Joe DuVal. Boyd who began his movie career in the days of
silent films was a forgotten man until he was asked to portray Hopalong
Cassidy in the movies of the 1940s. By 1946 or so he had been in over 
60 Hoppy movies and was crowned the king of the cowboys. He became
the hero of kids around the world and this lasted until another
resurgence in the form of the Hoppy radio series. Once more he
attained the fame and regards of kids and adults. During the radio years,
TV versions of his early films began appearing on televison. His early
movies were edited for televison of the day and once more Bill Boyd
entertained his fans. There's more - with the success of these old movies,
still another series of original TV films came. And once again Bill Boyd
as Hoppy was an immediate success
The radio series were a hard sell. And the owners could find no takers.
When this series began it was offered to the various networks. They
wanted nothing to do with it so the owners had to sell it in syndication.
But, after a short time it became so extremely successful that later on it
was heard on the Mutual and CBS networks.
For the most part the Hopalong Cassiday Radio Show was in syndication.
There were many starting dates beginning in 1948. The dates used here are
some of those broadcasts. 
50/01/01 1 Dead Man's Hand 50/01/08 2 The Rainmaker of Eagle Nest Mountain 50/01/15 3 The Coltsville Terror 50/01/22 4 The Mystery of Skull Valley 50/01/29 5 Renegades of the San Rafael 50/02/05 6 The Phantom Bandito 50/02/12 7 Murder on the Trail 50/02/19 8 Hoppy Takes a Chance 50/02/26 9 The Voice of the Dead 50/03/05 10 Ten Strike Gold 50/03/12 11 Red Rock Mesa 50/03/19 12 The Empty Saddle 50/03/26 13 The Failure 50/04/02 14 The Bandits of Ridge Creek 50/04/09 15 Killers of Sandy Gulch 50/04/16 16 The Red Death 50/04/23 17 Coyote's Creed 50/04/30 18 Bullets for Ballots
50/05/07 19 The Green Valley Payoff
50/05/14 20 The Man Who Made Willy Whirl
50/05/21 21 Range War
50/05/28 22 The Letter from the Grave
50/06/04 23 Death Paints a Picture
50/06/11 24 Border of Nowhere
50/06/18 25 The Medicine Man
50/06/25 26 The Flying Outlaw
50/07/02 27 The Sundown Kid
50/07/09 28 Hoppy Sees Red
50/07/16 29 Hoppy and the School Marm
50/07/23 30 The King of Cinnabar
50/07/30 31 The Shell Game
50/08/06 32 Blood Money
50/08/13 33 The Disappearing Deputy
50/08/20 34 The Whistling Ghosts
50/08/27 35 An Old Spanish Custom
50/09/03 36 The Secret of Martin Doon
50/09/10 37 Four to Go
50/09/17 38 The Red Terror 
50/09/24 39 Hoppy and the Iron Horse
50/09/30 40 Gunsmoke Rides the Stagecoach Trail
50/10/07 41 Tinker's Dam
50/10/14 42 Hoppy Pays a Debt
50/10/21 43 Hoppy Turns on the Heat
50/10/28 44 Death Runs Dry
50/11/04 45 Melody of Murder
50/11/11 46 The King of Spades
50/11/18 47 Hoppy Takes the Bull by the Horns
50/11/25 48 Dead or Alive
50/12/02 49 The Mystery at Three Oaks
50/12/09 50 The Plague of Parson's Folly
50/12/16 51 Mystery At The 'Diamond Z'
50/12/30 52 The Golden Lure
51/01/06 53 The Case of the Last Word
51/01/13 54 Bad Medicine at Rimrock
51/01/20 55 The Frightened Town
51/01/27 56 The Killer in Black
51/02/03 57 Coming Attraction, Murder
51/02/10 58 Wet Beef and Dry Bones 
51/02/17 59 Black Grass Fever
51/02/24 60 The Cold Country
51/03/03 61 Buckshot Badman
51/03/10 62 The Boss of Vinegar Bend
51/03/17 63 Land of the Gunhawks
51/03/24 64 The Devil's Drum
51/03/31 65 Hoppy Elects a Sheriff
51/04/07 66 Peril at Pier Nineteen
51/04/14 67 Death Crosses the River
51/04/21 68 Stagecoach West
51/04/28 69 The Unwilling Outlaw
51/05/05 70 Kidnapper's Trail
51/05/12 71 The Bandit of Blackton Bend
51/05/19 72 Hook, Line and Murder
51/05/26 73 The Phantom Panther
51/06/02 74 Hoppy Plays a Hunch
51/06/09 75 A Jailer Named Satan
51/06/16 76 The Man in the Yellow Mask
51/06/23 77 Run, Sheep, Run
51/06/30 78 Hoppy Meets His Match
51/09/22 79 Apaches Don't Need Guns
51/09/29 80 A Shot in the Dark 
51/10/06 81 Gunhawk Convention
51/10/13 82 Gunfighter in Short Pants
51/10/20 83 The Songbird of Santa Fe
51/10/27 84 Bayou Drums Mean Death
51/11/03 85 Clean-Up of Caribou Mesa
51/11/10 86 Six Little Men Who Were Green
51/11/17 87 Junior Badman
51/11/24 88 The Devil and El Diablo
51/12/01 89 The Lawyer of Laredo
51/12/08 90 The Secret in the Hill
51/12/15 91 The Memory of Mace Melot
51/12/22 92 The Spider Woman 
51/12/29 93 The Killers of Lion Canyon
52/01/05 94 The Westrels of Juarez
52/01/12 95 Gambler's Luck
52/01/19 96 Danger Wears Two Faces
52/01/26 97 California or Bust
52/02/02 98 Death Comes Invited
52/02/09 99 Bull Fight
52/02/16 100 The Women of Windy Ridge
52/02/23 101 Right Rope, Wrong Neck
52/03/01 102 Stampede at Semple's Crossing
52/03/08 103 Cowtown Trouble Shooters
52/03/15 104 The Santa Claus Rustlers
