The Roy Rogers Show

Dec 30, 1951

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

Jan 6, 1952

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.

Jan 20, 1952

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.

Jan 27, 1952

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.

Feb 3, 1952

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

Feb 10, 1952

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.

Feb 17, 1952

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.

Feb 24, 1952

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

Mar 1, 1952

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.

Mar 8, 1952

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.

Mar 15, 1952

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.

Mar 23, 1952

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

Mar 30, 1952

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.

Apr 6, 1952

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.

Apr 13, 1952

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.

Apr 20, 1952

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.

Apr 27, 1952

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.

May 4, 1952

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.

May 18, 1952

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.

May 25, 1952

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.

Jun 1, 1952

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.

Jun 8, 1952

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.

Jun 15, 1952

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

Sep 7, 1952

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.

Sep 28, 1952

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.

Oct 5, 1952

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.

Nov 16, 1952

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.

Nov 23, 1952

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

Nov 30, 1952

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.

Dec 14, 1952

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.

Dec 28, 1952

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.

Feb 22, 1953

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.

Apr 5, 1953

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.

Apr 12, 1953

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.

Apr 19, 1953

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.

Apr 26, 1953

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.

May 24, 1953

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.

Jun 28, 1953

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.

Oct 11, 1953

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

Nov 1, 1953

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.

Nov 8, 1953

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

Nov 15, 1953

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

Nov 22, 1953

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.

Dec 6, 1953

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.

Dec 13, 1953

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.

Dec 27, 1953

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.

Jan 3, 1954

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.

Jan 17, 1954

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.

Jan 24, 1954

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.

Feb 7, 1954

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.

Feb 28, 1954

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

Mar 14, 1954

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

Sep 12, 1954

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.

Oct 3, 1954

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.

Oct 10, 1954

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.

Oct 17, 1954

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.

Oct 24, 1954

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.

Oct 31, 1954

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.

Nov 7, 1954

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.

Nov 21, 1954

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

Dec 5, 1954

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.

Dec 19, 1954

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.

Jan 9, 1955

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

Jan 23, 1955

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

Feb 3, 1955

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

Feb 20, 1955

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.

Feb 27, 1955

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

Mar 20, 1955

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.

Mar 27, 1955

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.

May 22, 1955

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.

Oct 9, 1955

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.""

Oct 23, 1955

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.

Nov 2, 1955

Four escaped prisoners try to take over Paradise Valley.

Nov 20, 1955

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.

Nov 27, 1955

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.

Dec 11, 1955

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.

Dec 18, 1955

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.

Jan 15, 1956

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

Jan 29, 1956

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.

Feb 5, 1956

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.

Feb 26, 1956

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.

Mar 3, 1956

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

Mar 10, 1956

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

Mar 17, 1956

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.

Mar 24, 1956

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.

Oct 21, 1956

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.

Oct 28, 1956

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.

Nov 4, 1956

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.

Nov 11, 1956

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.""

Nov 18, 1956

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.

Dec 2, 1956

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

Dec 16, 1956

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.

Jan 6, 1957

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.

Jan 27, 1957

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.

Feb 10, 1957

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.

Feb 24, 1957

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

Mar 3, 1957

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.

Mar 17, 1957

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.

Mar 31, 1957

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.

Jun 9, 1957

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.