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The Roy Rogers Show : Season 6
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Air date: 21 Oct '56 - 15 episodesThe Roy Rogers Show is an American Western television series that broadcast one hundred episodes on NBC for six seasons between December 30, 1951 and June 9, 1957. The show starred Roy Rogers as a ranch owner, Dale Evans as the proprietress of the Eureka Cafe in fictional Mineral City, and Pat Brady as Roy’s sidekick and Dale's cook. Brady's jeep Nellybelle had a mind of her own and often sped away driverless with Brady in frantic pursuit on foot. Animal stars were Roy's Palomino horse, Trigger and his German Shepherd wonder dog, Bullet. The show was filmed at the Samuel Goldwyn Studio, and originally sponsored by General Foods. The show's theme song, “Happy Trails”, was written by Dale Evans and sung over the end credits by Rogers and Evans. The show received an Emmy nomination in 1955 for Best Western or Adventure Series, but it lost out to the syndicated Stories of the Century, an anthology series starring and narrated by Jim Davis. Beginning in 1961, CBS broadcast reruns of The Roy...
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List of Episodes (15)
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The Roy Rogers Show (1951)
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1. Head for Cover
21 Oct '56Amity 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.
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2. Fishing for Fingerprints
28 Oct '56When 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.
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3. Mountain Pirates
04 Nov '56Roy 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.
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4. His Weight in Wildcats
11 Nov '56Old-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.""
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5. Paleface Justice
18 Nov '56An influential rancher accuses a young Indian of murdering the town blacksmith. Roy comes to the young man's defense and eventually proves him innocent.
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6. Tossup
02 Dec '56A little girl is the pawn in a family feud over ownership of a silver mine.
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7. Fighting Sire
16 Dec '56A 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.
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8. Deadlock at Dark Canyon
06 Jan '57Colonel 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.
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9. End of the Trail
27 Jan '57Escaped 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.
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10. Junior Outlaw
10 Feb '57Roy'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.
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11. High Stakes
24 Feb '57A young witness whose testimony can send the Collins gang to prison is pursued by the outlaws who hope to silence her permanently.
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12. Accessory to Crime
03 Mar '57Johnny 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.
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13. Portrait of Murder
17 Mar '57Doc 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.
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14. Brady's Bonanza
31 Mar '57Big 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.
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15. Johnny Rover
09 Jun '57Tyrannical 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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