The Western Trail
The Western Trail - ARTRANSA - First Broadcast 01-02-1954
Sponsored by Taubmans (NSW) Pty Ltd
Producer & Narrator - Walter Pym,writer Ron Ingleby. Cast: Charles (Bud) Tingwell, Harp McGuire, Richard Meikle.
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep01 THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep02 GERONIMO THE APACHE
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep03 KIT CARSON - MOUNTAIN MAN
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep04 HARRY LOGAN - LAST OF THE BADMEN
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep05 PRAIRIE JUSTICE
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep06 WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep07 GUNS VERSUS GOLDEN GLORY
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep08 DOC THE TWO GUN DENTIST
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep09 THE TEXAS TIGER
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep10 MANHUNT
The job of a lumberjack to clear a path through a forest for the railway offers a good safe cover to an outlaw on the run. A report comes through to some local forest rangers that such an outlaw bandit is heading in their direction.
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep11 BELLE STARR - QUEEN OF THE BANDITS
After Belle Starr's bandit father is hanged for killing a man, she herself turns bandit and teams up with a half-caste Indian. Together they menace the West
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep12 DRY WATER
With his cattle herd, Bowie Thomas sets out for Colorado and a strip of land he has purchased. When he arrives there, he finds that ranchers rely on their natural springs to water their cattle. He also finds that all the springs have been fenced off Lou Bristol
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep13 HIT THE TRAIL RANGER
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep14 THE EMPEROR OF THE BADLANDS
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep15 THE SHADOW
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep16 THE BISCUIT TRAIN
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep17 COCHISE GREAT APACHE TRAIL
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep18 A SODBUSTERS SHOWDOWN
Matt Murdoch a big ranger tried to force Joel Kirby off his land so that his cattle could move to the hills for the mid-winter months, but Kirby was stubborn and refused to take down his fences. Murdoch then hired gunmen to persuade Kirby to leave and the feud between the two men almost led to a ranch owners war
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep19 DIME-STORE COWBOY
Danny Trevor and his father set up a general store in the growing town of Sweetwater. Business is good and Danny decides to leave his father and see a bit of the country. After wandering for years, he returns to find his father in ill-health and owing money to the bank.
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep20 UNLOAD THE DRUGS
Bill Lacy set out to build a ranch of which he had always dreamed but he found that he hadn't quite enough money so looked around for a financier
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep21 THE LONG DRIVE
The big cattle trails are the lifeline of Texas for they present a means of transportation for the ranchers of the West and of all the men who have ever pushed a herd along these trails, the most loved and hated, the most gentle and murderous was Big Jim Condor
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep22 DRY DEATH
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep23 THE WOLF WAR
The story of the fight between the earlier settlers of Texas against the Mexican tyrants for their independence
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep24 REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep25 THE GAMBLER AND HIS GUN
Story of the fight between the early pig farmers of Texas and the land hungry cowpunchers who tried to run them out of the country and of the fight of a lone gambler whose brothers have already been shot in the feud
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep26 THE LAWMAN
The Story of Wild Bill Hickok and Bill Cody who worked together for a stage coach company and of the brushes they had with a notorious gang of outlaws who tried to rob the company
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep27 MAN WITH A HUNGER
The story of the pioneers of the Red River Valley and of their battle against the elements for survival
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep28 BOOM TOWN
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep29 THE GUNSLINGERS
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep30 ALIAS BILLY THE KID
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep31 The changing of the West
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep32 THE LOOSE JAWED GUNMAN
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep33 DEADWOOD DICK
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep34 THE DARING DESPERADO
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep35 THE DONNER TREK TO DEATH
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep36 THE DALTON BROTHERS
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep37 THE LEGAL COWARD
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep38 GIRL FROM THE EAST
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep39 CALIFORNIA OR DEATH
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep40 GUNS UNDER THE MOON
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep41 THE GHOST FROM JESSE JAMES
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep42 DEAD MAN'S LAW
Every day in Provo, Utah there was a crop of robberies, shootings and murders and they just didn't seem to stop. A handful of law-abiding citizens banded together to sack the sheriff and judge of Provo and bring in strangers to clean up the town.
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep43 BLOOD BROTHERS
Ben and His Thompson, born in England, had the reputation of being two of the most dangerous killers in the West. Ben Thompson didn't carry an ordinary gun like everybody else. His weapon was a Maxim machine gun which had many killings to its credit
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep44 SILENT GUNS
In 1987, the sheriff of Canyon City, Ace La rue, had the reputation of being the fastest draw in all the West. He had twelve dead gunmen to his credit and so big did his reputation grow that the people of Canyon City laid bets as to who would survive the gunfights that the sheriff was regularly in.
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep45 WIRED FOR TROUBLE
When General Custer's troops are wiped out by the Sioux Indians who are on the warpath after being forced off their reservation in a remote part of Wyoming badlands are in grave danger. They recieve amessgae telling them to leave their outpost immediately but circumstances prevent them doing so.
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep46 KILLER COLT
In 1835 Samuel Colt patented the Patterson 5 shot revolver, the first gun ever invented that fired more than one shot at a time. He had to struggle to sell the invention which was later to become famous throughout the West
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep47 MAKE A TRADE MISTER
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep48 GOLD FEVER
Captain John Sudders, a Swiss migrant, drifted into Mexico in 1839 to settle there. Granted land he set out to farm it, and, by accident discovered gold. The attempts of this man to quell the gold fever he knew would arise, makes resting listening.
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep49 TRAIL TOWN
Wyatt Earp was one of the toughest sherrifs to come out of Texas. He brought law and orderto the trail towns of the West and particularly to the toughest of Sisco
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep50 CHEROKEE BILL
This is an episode of Goldy Croft, alias Cherokee Bill. Cherokee, born in 1886, lived for many years with the Indians, but later saved a boy from a lynching party for a crime he had committed himself
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep51 DEATH IN THE DESERT
When a new territory is on the way to be tamed, man sees humanity at its worst and it is often that the land becomes tamed before the tamer. Such is the case of the Black Desert and Cedar City
WESTERN TRAIL, the ep52 THE MULE HEADED OUTLAW