The Roy Rogers Show

The Roy Rogers Show

Roy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of the German shepherd dog Bullet and his horse Trigger. Roy, supported by his friend Pat Brady, is often helping the weakest usually threatened by cattle thieves, dishonest sheriffs and villains of various kinds. Pat Brady works as a cook at the Eureka Café, owned by Dale Evans.

Western

Seasons

1. Jailbreak

Air Date: 1951-12-30

Dale helps a young man to escape from jail after he has been falsely accused of the murder of his intended bride's father.

2. Doc Stevens' Traveling Store

Air Date: 1952-01-06

Crafty old Doc Stevens drives around with a ""traveling store,"" actually a bilnd for a transmitter used to send information to a gang of dangerous criminals.

3. The Set-Up

Air Date: 1952-01-20

Roy blocks a gang's attempts to murder trapper Granny Hobbs when she refuses to sell her land. When the outlaws threaten to have Granny declared insane in order to take over her property, the clever old lady helps Roy and Dale to set a trap for them.

4. The Treasure of Howling Dog Canyon

Air Date: 1952-01-27

A scheming saloon hostess who married a miner and then had him murdered after gaining control of his treasure map, menaces her stepson in order to take possession of the third of the map which he holds.

5. The Train Robbery

Air Date: 1952-02-03

The local postmaster, who also runs the general store, hires two crooks to blow up and rob a train carrying a valuable bank shipment.

6. Badman's Brother

Air Date: 1952-02-10

Eleven-year-old Larry Trumball is loyal to his brother Stu, and thus keeps Roy and Dale from catching Stu after he has killed a man and committed a robbery. Although Larry appears incorrigible, Dale believes that ""fundamentally, he's a fine boy,"" so she and Roy set out to teach him about misplaced loyalty.

7. Outlaw's Girl

Air Date: 1952-02-17

Thelma Young, a waitress in Dale's cafe, is interrogated by an FBI agent because she is romantically involved with Chick Dillon, a cheap thug who subsequently returns to Mineral City and kidnaps Dale and the foolish Thelma.

8. The Desert Fugitive

Air Date: 1952-02-24

Bill Harris is mistaken for his twin brother Jim, who was convicted for stealing important government documents.

9. Outlaws' Town

Air Date: 1952-03-01

A town in the desert, not surveyed and thus under no township or county's jurisdiction, is a haven for criminals who are safe from the law in their community. Roy and Pat pose as outlaws in order to invade ""No Man's Land"" and lead the criminals away from their protected area.

10. The Unwilling Outlaw

Air Date: 1952-03-08

Bank Employee Jed Collins is framed for embezzlement by the bank's head bookkeeper, who is in cahoots with the notorious Lawson gang. Jed is forced to join the gang until Roy can help prove his innocence, to the delight of Jed's trusting little daughter.

11. Dead Men's Hills

Air Date: 1952-03-15

Roy, Dale and Pat help a wounded sheriff to hold the Hannon gang at bay in a desert oasis town near Dead Man's Hills.

12. The Minister's Son

Air Date: 1952-03-23

A government agent poses as a minister's son in order to capture a gang of counterfeiters.

13. Ghost Gulch

Air Date: 1952-03-30

Jim Barton finds himself in considerable trouble, much to the distress of his wife and housekeeper. He is captured by an unscrupulous rancher who wants to buy his ranch, on which a gold mine has been discovered.

14. Ride in the Death Wagon

Air Date: 1952-04-06

An elderly invalid donates a large sum of money in cash for the construction of a clinic. When her cash is inadvertently turned over to a crook posing as an armed guard, Roy and Dale must track down the imposter.

15. Peril from the Past

Air Date: 1952-04-13

Dude Dalhart and Cherokee Tim arrive in Mineral City and blackmail a bank teller who once killed a man and served a prison term. They threaten to reveal his past unless he helps them stage a bank robbery.

16. The Ride of the Ranchers

Air Date: 1952-04-20

Don Jose traditionally leads the annual Ride of the Ranchers in Paradise Valley. This year, during his absence, a gang of outlaws attack his hacienda where Dale and the other women are gathered. Roy returns in time to prevent Don Jose's strongbox from being taken.

17. Shoot to Kill [aka Pat Brady, Outlaw]

Air Date: 1952-04-27

Dale is on a stagecoach carrying her father's cattle money, as is a picture-taking dude named Elmer Kirby. Elmer asks Pat Brady to pose as a desperado for a photograph. He later tells everyone that the picture depicts vicious outlaw Mark Opal.

18. The Hermit's Secret

Air Date: 1952-05-04

Indian Ruby Barton's husband has been murdered by a former racketeer, now posing as a harmless old invalid. When guilt seems to point to Ruby's uncle, Roy and Dale investigate the case and clear the Indian of all charges.

19. Haunted Mine of Paradise Valley

Air Date: 1952-05-18

A dying prospector tells Roy the map of his gold mine is hidden in the lower end of a shaft in the old Bedford Mine. When his widow arrives in Mineral City, Roy and Dale help her to find the map.

20. Ghost Town Gold

Air Date: 1952-05-25

Pat Brady buys a disreputable old ghost town called Lucky Springs, inhabited by an old desert rat named Webb Jenkins who has found a cache of counterfeit gold pieces.

21. The Doublecrosser

Air Date: 1952-06-01

Dale pretends to have funds she wants Mayor Ralph Colton to help her invest-actually a pretext for her visit to the town where Colton is suspected of being dishonest. Coincidentally, the mayor's mother arrives in town along with Roy and Dale, unaware that her son is being blackmailed into shielding an outlaw gang.

22. Carnival Killer

Air Date: 1952-06-08

A young whip artist in a carnival is framed in the murder of his boss, who has opposed the young man's courtship of his daughter.

23. Flying Bullets

Air Date: 1952-06-15

Pat Brady is elected sheriff of Martin County just in time to apprehend the man who shot Appalachian mountaineer Cliff Miller.

1. Death Medicine

Air Date: 1952-09-07

An elderly diabetic is kidnapped and held for ransom by a dishonest employee and his gang. Roy and Dale attempt to find the old man in time to give him the insulin injection he must have to survive.

2. Outlaw's Return

Air Date: 1952-09-28

Roy befriends an ex-convict and gives him a job at the ranch. When several holdups occur, the convict is put in jail, although Roy suspects that someone else is impersonating him.

3. Hunting for Trouble

Air Date: 1952-10-05

Roy is abducted by the Wolf gang, but the leader comes down with a case of the mumps which quarantines the whole group and gives the law a chance to subdue the outlaws.

4. The Feud

Air Date: 1952-11-16

Craig Ormond arrives in town after he supposedly murdered Andy Norton's father. Andy, who is about to be married, postpones the wedding in order to avenge his father's murder.

5. Go for Your Guns

Air Date: 1952-11-23

Dale's nephew Bob idolizes a dreadful gunfighter who is working as a front man for a gang of robbers.

6. The Mayor of Ghost Town

Air Date: 1952-11-30

A haughty young woman from Connecticut arrives at the Eureka Cafe seeking her father, who has established himself as Mayor of Red Dog, a nearby ghost town. Dale, who suspects the girl is a ""sweet person in spite of her high-falutin' manner,"" gets Roy to help the ""mayor"" and his daughter to hold onto their property.

7. Blind Justice

Air Date: 1952-12-14

A greedy veterinarian plots to murder an old prospector who has been blinded and is using Roy's dog, Bullet, to guide him to his diggings.

8. The Knockout

Air Date: 1952-12-28

Roy and Pat try to learn about a boxer's possible connection with a criminal gang. When Roy frees the boxer from the gang's control, the fighter helps to round up the wrongdoers.

9. The Run-a-Round

Air Date: 1953-02-22

A clever group of confidence men trick Dale into signing a bill of sale to her ranch, which they promptly palm off on an unsuspecting Easterner.

10. Phantom Rustlers

Air Date: 1953-04-05

Rustlers who use trucks are ruining small ranchers in Paradise Valley. Roy's first clue as to the identity of the crooks comes when the ringleader tries to sell stolen beef to Dale's cafe.

11. Loaded Guns

Air Date: 1953-04-12

Tom Larrabee's gun is used to kill a rancher, although Tom swears he never pulled the trigger. Roy believes him and helps to prove his innocence.

12. The Silver Fox Hunt

Air Date: 1953-04-19

Roy and Dale discover the murdered body of the chief of the Acuna Indians near the tribe's silver mine. Earlier, the old chief had told Roy that someone was stealing the silver from the mine. All of the evidence appeares to point towards the trading post operator.

13. The Mingo Kid

Air Date: 1953-04-26

When the Mingo Kid over-powers Roy and changes clothing with him, Roy is taken hostage by outlaw Turk Black to be his partner in the planned robbery of the Mineral City Bank.

14. The Long Chance

Air Date: 1953-05-24

The leader of a robbery and rustling gang tells Roy and Dale he didn't steal funds from a school and sets out to find the guilty party.

15. Money to Burn

Air Date: 1953-06-28

A peddler named Otis Cooper is in cahoots with robbers who have stolen a payroll and hidden it in a stove in Cooper's wagon. When the peddler sells the stove to Dale Evans, his cohorts go to all extremes to recover it and the treasure it holds.

1. Milliner from Medicine Creek

Air Date: 1953-10-11

A pretty young milliner and her grandfather are suspects in a plot to loot the Wells Fargo office.

2. Pat's Inheritance

Air Date: 1953-11-01

Pat and a distant cousin are informed that they've co-inherited a ranch which some unscrupulous people covet because of its valuable grazing land.

3. Outlaws of Paradise Valley

Air Date: 1953-11-08

Outlaws planning to rob Mineral City and seeking hostages attack members of the archeological expedition from the state university. Roy comes to the rescue.

4. Bullets and a Burro

Air Date: 1953-11-15

Roy and his friends round up a gang headed by the sheriff's brother, who tries to steal an old prospector's savings.

5. Gun Trouble

Air Date: 1953-11-22

Orphaned teenager Jerry King has fallen in with Colt Eggers and his outlaw gang who commission him to murder Roy. Gradually, Roy takes Jerry into his confidence and wins him over to the side of law and order.

6. M Stands For Murder

Air Date: 1953-12-06

An old Western legend has it that anyone who sees the ghost of ""One-Arm Johnny"" will be murdered. Roy and his friends investigate and prove the legend has no sound basis.

7. The Peddler from Pecos

Air Date: 1953-12-13

Two irate trappers murder a government agent after he orders an end to beaver trapping in the regin. Pete the peddler a distant cousin of Pat Brady, is later urged to sell the illegal pelts.

8. Bad Company

Air Date: 1953-12-27

Two crafty old codgers arrange to have a strongbox stolen from their own transportation company. The thieves steal Nellybelle in order to haul the loot, thus putting Roy, Dale, and Pat on their trail.

9. Little Dynamite

Air Date: 1954-01-03

A gang of bandits robs city hall of tax money and escapes in Dale's wagon, which also carries a small baby as a passenger.

10. The Kid from Silver City

Air Date: 1954-01-17

Rod Miner, an incorrigible outlaw, returns to his native Mineral City, where his father runs the general store. He is soon pursued by Silver City Marshal Bill Culver, whom he bushwhacks before plotting a means to get rid of Roy.

11. The Secret of Indian Gap

Air Date: 1954-01-24

A ten-year-old orphan called ""Jiggers"" Riley uses a squirrel rifle to frighten Roy and Dale away from the gold mine being illegally operated on government land by the boy's treacherous uncle, Jasper.

12. Deputy Sheriff

Air Date: 1954-02-07

Sheriff Tom Blodgett is shot while investigating a rustling gang. When Deputy Morgan seems to hinder attempts to apprehend the gang, Roy realizes that he is in cahoots with them. When Roy, Dale, and Pat are subsequently trapped, Nellybelle actually saves the day by overpowering the badmen.

13. Hi-Graders of Paradise Valley

Air Date: 1954-02-28

Sarah Granby, proprietress of a hand laundry, is in cahoots with an unscrupulous man higrading ore.

14. The Land Swindle

Air Date: 1954-03-14

Roy breaks up a land racket after a local newspaper runs a story questioning a property sale.

1. The Lady Killer

Air Date: 1954-09-12

In this violent entry, a lady banker murders all the ranchers in oil-rich Lost Valley in order to gain control of the property. She is planning to murder eight-year-old Jamie Jenkins when Roy intervenes.

2. The Young Defenders

Air Date: 1954-10-03

Mike and Betty Tobin are frightened children left alone in a cabin while their fur-trapping father is held captive by outlaws after his valuable pelts.

3. Backfire

Air Date: 1954-10-10

Parson Loomis, carrying a payroll from the Mineral City Bank to the Hardrock Mine, is ambushed by two thieves, one of whom later disguises himself as the visiting ""Reverend Brown,"" a supposed friend of Loomis's. Roy, Dale, Pat, and the parson's childern soon realize that their ""guest"" is no man of the cloth.

4. Last of the Larabee Kid

Air Date: 1954-10-17

A swift, mysterious desperado called The Larabee Kid has been hijacking stolen loot from thieves who prey on stagecoaches. As it develops, he is actually the son of a slain marshal, seeking vengeance on the outlaws who murdered his father.

5. The Hijackers

Air Date: 1954-10-24

Beaver Jones, president of the Paradise Valley Fur Traders Association, is defrauded by his grandson Tim, who is hijacking furs in order to pay off a gambling debt.

6. Hard Luck Story

Air Date: 1954-10-31

The Hard Luck Insurance Company, for one flat premium payment, will insure any rancher for the rest of his life-or so the firm contends. Roy reveals that the entire affair is a ruthless racket.

7. Boys' Day in Paradise Valley

Air Date: 1954-11-07

When the offices of the law are turned over to students in honor of Boy's Day, Bob Miner is named sheriff and his unscrupulous uncle takes advantage of the opportunity to acquire adjoining land from an elderly rancher.

8. Bad Neighbors

Air Date: 1954-11-21

Roy and Dale are caught between the fight of cattlemen and homesteaders who want the same land for different reasons.

9. Strangers

Air Date: 1954-12-05

Lanny Gaines, a teenager with artistic talent, moves with his father to Paradise Valley, but they are dismayed when no one pays them a welcome call. When three desperados posing as surveyors ask Gaines for lodging, the old man is only too glad to comply.

10. Hidden Treasures

Air Date: 1954-12-19

When the Castle gang hears Roy and Dale say ""The Key to the greatest treasure in the world is in that book,"" they resort to violence to gain possession of it.

11. Outcasts of Paradise Valley

Air Date: 1955-01-09

When they are unable to find work, two youths turn to crime, even endangering a kindly old couple who befriended them.

12. The Big Chance

Air Date: 1955-01-23

Pat Brady and Nellybelle are kidnapped by a gang of outlaws, one of whom coincidentally may be inheriting a million dollars.

13. Uncle Steve's Finish

Air Date: 1955-02-03

Roy and Dale are suspicious of a local school teacher's growing nervousness after the Paradise Valley stage is robbed.

14. Dead End Trail

Air Date: 1955-02-20

There is a large reward for the capture of desperado Curt Carlson. A Young man sees the poster and decides to run away from his overbearing father to join the Carlson gang.

15. Born Fugitive

Air Date: 1955-02-27

Dale befriends a little girl called ""Johnnie,"" whose outlaw father has been murdered by his confederates.

16. Quick Draw

Air Date: 1955-03-20

Marv Hanley is a quick-tempered, trigger-happy sheep rancher whose brother-in-law, Dunc Wright, has recently held up a stage. Marv, who has never had any use for Dunc, joins the posse in order to gun him down.

17. The Ginger Horse

Air Date: 1955-03-27

Roy, Dale, and Pat are visiting nearby Carson County. While there, they meet a little girl named Janie Howard whose beloved horse has been stolen by an outlaw who has framed Janie's father in a robbery.

18. The Showdown

Air Date: 1955-05-22

Ellen Corbin, a waitress at the Eureka Cafe, is awaiting her father's release from prison. As soon as Corbin returns to Mineral City, his former partner begins to menace him.

1. And Sudden Death

Air Date: 1955-10-09

An election for mayor of Mineral City is interrupted when one of the candidates is knifed by a supposedly imbecilic tinker-in reality, the leader of the nefarious ""Shadow Gang.""

2. Ranch War

Air Date: 1955-10-23

A young man and his wife are driven from their ranch by a greedy, unscrupulous rancher and his treacherous son. Roy and Dale assist the young couple in their effort to reclaim the property.

3. Violence in Paradise Valley

Air Date: 1955-11-02

Four escaped prisoners try to take over Paradise Valley.

4. The Brothers O'Dell

Air Date: 1955-11-20

An old man has two sons: One a confirmed renegade and the other a manager of an express office. When the outlaw gang robs the express office, the renegade refuses to join them in harming his brother.

5. The Scavenger

Air Date: 1955-11-27

The town scavenger picks up a cache of counterfeit money which was left by outlaws. Roy must save the old man when the outlaws return for their false money.

6. Treasure of Paradise Valley

Air Date: 1955-12-11

An old miner is trading stock in a non-existent gold mine in exchange for food for his old prospector pals. When his granddaughter Maybelle arrives in town, Roy and Dale investigate the old man's case.

7. Three Masked Men

Air Date: 1955-12-18

Luke Taylor's gang tries to save him from hanging by kidnapping the Governor during Mineral City's 75th Anniversary celebration. When the gang shoots ex-convict Jim Forrset, suspicion centers around young Bob Arden, whom Forrest has declined to accept as a son-in-law.

8. Ambush

Air Date: 1956-01-15

A young miner is ambushed when a crooked assayer discovers that he has uncovered a bonanza.

9. Money Is Dangerous

Air Date: 1956-01-29

An old ex-rancher named Carson, whom the townsfolk believe to be a miser, has been robbed by a confidence man named Hi Talley who has been employed as his bodyguard.

10. False Faces

Air Date: 1956-02-05

Roy, serving as acting sheriff of Mineral County, works with his blood brother, Chief Gray Hawk, to prevent the crooked mayor from framing the Indians in a series of murders.

11. Horse Crazy

Air Date: 1956-02-26

Roy is captured by a desperado who wants him to track down his missing horse, an outstanding equine which he considers faster than Trigger. The desperado regains his horse but loses his freedom when Roy ultimately overpowers him.

12. Smoking Guns

Air Date: 1956-03-03

An Indian agent is murdered by an old prospector who is stealing gold he discovered in the Indian's salt mine.

13. Empty Saddles

Air Date: 1956-03-10

A group of ranchers, including Roy, are being stopped by rustlers from taking their cattle to market.

14. Sheriff Missing

Air Date: 1956-03-17

Sam Gardner, a Mineral City banker who wants to initiate legalized gambling, has a gang of thugs force Sheriff John Blodgett out of town so that he won't interfere with the shady dealings.

15. The Morse Mixup

Air Date: 1956-03-24

Charlie Morse sells a fine horse called ""Dutchess"" to ham actor Henry Hawkins. Morse's evil brother attempts to gain possession of the animal by murdering Charlie and framing Roy and Hawkins for the crime.

1. Head for Cover

Air Date: 1956-10-21

Amity Bailey and her husband Ezra have been wed for thirty years, during which they've been fantasizing about a European honeymoon they could never afford. When they assist in capturing three thieves, the sheriff gives them a reward which allows them to fulfill their dream.

2. Fishing for Fingerprints

Air Date: 1956-10-28

When Clark Baxter is released from jail, he vows to seek vengeance against fisherman Joe Herkimer. Kerkimer's testimony had sent him to jail. Baxter and his thugs rob an old recluse and frame Kerkimer, whom Roy and Pat must clear of the false charge.

3. Mountain Pirates

Air Date: 1956-11-04

Roy discovers that the stock of a mountain fishing preserve is rapidly and mysteriously dwindling. The only witness to the poching is an old miner who is so intimidated by the crooks that he feigns amnesia.

4. His Weight in Wildcats

Air Date: 1956-11-11

Old-timer badman Denver Jones once hid $20.000 in stolen funds near Mineral City, and recent clues have given a gang of outlaws a head start in finding it. With Sheriff Blodgett away, Roy turns for help to former policeman Leo Driggs, who had lost his nerve and retired from the force, but whose fourteen-year-old son Petey believes his father can ""lick his weight in wildcats.""

5. Paleface Justice

Air Date: 1956-11-18

An influential rancher accuses a young Indian of murdering the town blacksmith. Roy comes to the young man's defense and eventually proves him innocent.

6. Tossup

Air Date: 1956-12-02

A little girl is the pawn in a family feud over ownership of a silver mine.

7. Fighting Sire

Air Date: 1956-12-16

A bad-tempered, ex-champion prize fighter, King Keady, is hiding out after witnessing a murder, and Roy is assigned to guard him from mobster Max Marcella. Meanwhile, the boxer's eleven-year-old son runs away to see his estranged father, is captured by Marcella, and proves his bravery when he risks his life to save his father and Roy from the gangsters.

8. Deadlock at Dark Canyon

Air Date: 1957-01-06

Colonel Mattock, an old cattle baron, wants to rid the region of the Pinto Basin nesters. He is unaware, however, of his foreman's activities for his own selfish purposes.

9. End of the Trail

Air Date: 1957-01-27

Escaped convict Burt Blackwell is reportedly heading for Paradise Valley, but is killed en route. An undercover detective, disguishing himself as Blackwell, hopes to capture Blackwell's former partner-in-crime. When Roy secretly agrees to help the detective, the townsfolk believe he is deliberately allowing ""Blackwell"" to go free.

10. Junior Outlaw

Air Date: 1957-02-10

Roy's summer camp for underprivileged youngsters is plagued by the presence of a surly juvenile delinquent named Mick, who falls in with a gang of badmen trying to recover stolen loot concealed in a mine tunnel on Roy's property.

11. High Stakes

Air Date: 1957-02-24

A young witness whose testimony can send the Collins gang to prison is pursued by the outlaws who hope to silence her permanently.

12. Accessory to Crime

Air Date: 1957-03-03

Johnny Williams, son of a poor storekeeper, hopes to attend college, but his father cannot finance his education unless he joins his unscrupulous partner in a smuggling scheme.

13. Portrait of Murder

Air Date: 1957-03-17

Doc Buckland orders George Hooper's herd destroyed because of hoof-and-mouth disease, thus jeopardizing the impending sale of Hooper's ranch. Hooper's foreman murders the doctor and frames Dave Shelton, a mute who expresses himself through his paintings.

14. Brady's Bonanza

Air Date: 1957-03-31

Big Jim Moran, former town bum, has struck it rich with a uranium mine, thus inspiring Pat Brady to sell Nellybelle and purchase a geiger counter. Unfortunately, both Moran and Pat are attacked by a vicious gang of claim-jumpers.

15. Johnny Rover

Air Date: 1957-06-09

Tyrannical Boston financier Jackson C. Revere travels West to confront his son, who has pledged to support himself in Mineral City despite his father's lack of faith in his abilities.

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Rating

6.4/10

Release Date

1951-12-30

Episodes

100 (6 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Roy Rogers Productions