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