Fort Laramie Log

Audio Classics_Ò Archive

This western was aired over the CBS network for only 40 broadcasts, 39 original shows and one repeat. The stories dealt with living and dying on the American western frontier, a common premise. This series is not as compelling as the drama of other westerns, but it is an enjoyable series and very worthy of collecting. The audition program and all of the episodes are available. This series was provide with all of the expert technical and acting talents that produced the best adult western ever heard on radio -- Gunsmoke.

Broadcast History:
Network: CBS
01/22/56 to 10/28/56 Sunday 5:30 p.m. (04/08/56 broadcast was pre-empted)
Produced / Directed:
Norman Macdonnell
Music:
Amerigo Marino
Writers:
Kathleen Hite (27 scripts), John Dunkel (5), John Meston (4), Les Crutchfield (2),
Gil Doud (1), E. Jack Newman (1), William N. Robson (1)
Announcers:
Dan Cubberly
Sound Patterns:
Ray Kemper and Bill James (# 1 - #26, #33, #35, #36, #38 - #40)
Bill James and Tom Hanley (#27 - #32, #34, #37)
Cast:
Captain Lee Quince: Raymond Burr
Sergeant Gorce: Vic Perrin
Lieutenant Seiberts: Harry Bartell
Major Daggett: Jack Moyles
Also heard:
James Nusser, Dan Risk, Joyce McClusky, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Clayton Post,
Bob Sweeny, Sam Edwards, Jan Arvin, Joseph Cranston, Lou Krugman, Ralph Moody,
Edgar Barrier, Frank Cady, Eleanor Tannin, Virginia Christine, John Dehner,
Barney Phillips, Jack Kruschen, Howard Culver, Vivi Janniss, Virginia Gregg,
Helen Kleeb, Lillian Buyeff, Lynn Allen, Richard Beals, Jeanette Nolan,
Shirley Mitchell, Howard McNear, Jeffrey Silver, Lee Melar, John Stephens,
Don Diamond, Parley Baer, Frank Gerstal, Ann Morrison, Richard Crenna, Tim Graham,
Eve McVeagh, Howard Culver, Jeanne Bates, Herb Vigran, Tim Graham, Joseph Kearns,
Delorus Penard, Jess Kirkpatrick, Sammy Hill

Audition Program

07/25/55 Fort Laramie (32 Minutes)
(Script Title: Ft. Creed)
Written by: John Meston
Music by: Rex Koury (Live)
John Dehner ---- Lee Quince
Harry Bartell ---- Lt. Siberts

Sunday - 5:30 p.m.

01/22/56 # 1 Playing Indian
01/29/56 # 2 Boatwright's Story
02/05/56 # 3 Squaw Man
02/12/56 # 4 Woman At Horse Creek
02/19/56 # 5 Boredom
02/26/56 # 6 Captain's Widow
03/04/56 # 7 The Shavetail
03/11/56 # 8 Hattie Pelfrey
03/18/56 # 9 Beasley Girls
03/25/56 #10 The Coward
04/01/56 #11 The Lost Child
04/08/56 Pre-empted
04/15/56 #12 Stagecoach Stop
04/22/56 #13 The New Recruit
04/29/56 #14 The Capture
05/06/56 #15 Never The Twain
05/13/56 #16 The War
05/20/56 #17 Gold
05/27/56 #18 The Sergeant's Baby
06/03/56 #19 Don't Kick My Horse
06/10/56 #20 Young Trooper
06/17/56 #21 Winter Soldier
06/24/56 #22 Loving Cup
07/01/56 #23 Trooper's Widow
07/08/56 #24 Talented Recruits
07/15/56 #25 The Old Enemy
07/22/56 #26 Spotted Tail Returns
07/29/56 #27 Nature Boy
08/05/56 #28 The Massacre
08/12/56 #29 Assembly Line
08/19/56 #30 Goodbye Willa
08/26/56 #31 The Chaplin
09/02/56 #32 The Return Of Hattie Pelfrey
09/09/56 #33 Buffalo Hunters
09/16/56 #34 The Patrol
09/23/56 #35 Woman At Horse Creek (Repeat)
09/30/56 #36 A Small Beginning
10/07/56 #37 Galvanized Yankee
10/14/56 #38 Still Waters
10/21/56 #39 Indian Scout
10/28/56 #40 Army Wife


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