A cow town lawyer whose business is trouble.
Frontier Town is a radio Western whose hero is a lawyer rather than a lawman: Chad Remington of Dos Rios, who keeps offices above the livery stables and admits his clients pay slowly, if at all. Whatever trouble the law practice fails to bring him, his cattle supply.
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Frontier Town is a radio Western built around an unlikely hero. Chad Remington is a lawyer. By his own cheerful admission, he is not a prosperous one. There is little law business on the frontier, the clients who do turn up tend to pay slowly if at all, and his so-called offices sit above the Dos Rios livery stables, which belong to an ex-medicine man. So he raises cattle as well, and whatever trouble the law practice fails to hand him, the herd supplies. Dos Rios gets a sketch of its own in his introductions: a cow town in the Rocky Mountain country, with no railroad for miles, a few passing stagecoaches and a steady stream of cow ponies. The labels he wears shift from one introduction to the next: frontier lawyer, cow town lawyer, saddle stop lawyer. The modesty does not. More than once he allows that nobody has much reason to have heard of him, and in one introduction he pleads guilty, as if in court, to making part of his living from the law. Before he speaks, though, each episode sets the stage with a spoken roll call of the early West: El Paso, Cheyenne, Calgary, Tombstone, the Pecos to Powder River, Dodge City to Poker Flat. From there the stories are dramatized, with scenes, dialogue and act breaks. The excerpt from 'Branding the Badlands' shows the texture. A question of forgery hangs over a father's signature, Miss Dixie declares she will not be robbed of her ranch and her stock, and the talk turns to a judge, a jury and a ride into town to see the sheriff. Told that the law is the law, she replies that maybe she had better make a few laws of her own, and she is sharp with Chad too, reminding him she never asked him to come. Other setups are gentler. In the excerpt from 'All Trails Lead to Trouble', Chad is plainly glad, after a run of broken-down and non-paying clients, when Dave Buckley and his mother come to see him from the painted horse country. He also offers his own reading of the frontier: it draws every kind of person, rough and tough, humble and God-fearing, and the daily battle for existence brings out the best and the worst in them. The episode titles trace the range, from 'South of Santa Fe' and 'Thunder over Texas' to 'Maverick Town', 'Forest Fire' and 'All Trails Lead to Trouble'. The pull here is the voice at the center: a Western hero who hedges, jokes about his fees and shrugs off his own obscurity before the trouble arrives. The closing credits name Reed Hadley, and Bill Foreman signs off with a note that Frontier Town comes from Hollywood.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys radio drama set on the frontier and likes a hero who practices law, narrating in a folksy, self-mocking first person between ranch disputes and trips to the sheriff.
What sets it apart: Its hero is a lawyer who also runs cattle, and he narrates with a wry shrug about slow-paying clients and his own obscurity. That lets its frontier drama turn on proof, forgery and a visit to the sheriff as well as ranch trouble.
Frontier Town was an American radio adventure serial syndicated by Bruce Eells Productions. The 30-minute programme's first known broadcast was in 1949, and the show ran for 47 episodes. Because it was syndicated, it aired on different stations on different days. For instance, in New York City, the first episode ran on WINS on March 5, 1949Listen to our radio station Old Time Radio https://link.radioking.com/otradioListen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/Entertainment Radio | Broadcasting Classic Radio Shows | PatreonRemember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today’s politically correct society. The shows do not necess…
A stagecoach vanishes on a level plain; your inner detective gets a cowboy hat.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A vanished stagecoach leaves empty ground, broken tracks, and dry frontier banter in its wake.
A stagecoach reportedly leaves Barranca Springs, but only its horses come back, sending Chad and Maude down the road to find what happened. The episode builds its mystery through plain, practical checking: no rain, no earthquake, no holes, no obvious human force.
A speech in Dos Rios turns into a horseback chase after a bullet creases Chad Remington's neck.
A public meeting in Dos Rios turns sharp and personal when a bullet creases Chad Remington's neck, pushing the Cowtown lawyer out of speech-making and into a hard horseback chase.
A land claim turns legal loopholes into a fight in the rocks.
A disputed patch of land in the Dos Rios Valley turns a property fight into a tight test of law, fairness, and nerve. Beauregard argues that payment makes the claim his, while Remington presses on the assessment against the Antrims' ranch, the missing notice, and the convenient…
A cattle crisis sends a young man toward a cafe, a singer, and one dangerously useful photograph.
A cattle deal turns into a romantic trap after Mr. Tolliver learns a breach-of-promise suit could put a thousand head of cattle in jeopardy. His solution is desperate and crookedly comic: send the young man to the Wheel of Fortune cafe, win over Blossom, and secure a photograph…
A county-seat fight turns Burnside Falls into a war of nerves, with Chad Remington trying to keep fear from winning.
Burnside Falls is under pressure from armed men who burn buildings, shoot, and push families toward Wardance, just as the county-seat fight threatens what Harvey and Sarah Burnside have spent years building.
Classic clues, quick deaths, sharper deductions.
A classic radio western drama following saddle-tramp lawyer Chad Remington in the frontier town of Dos Rios.
A classic radio western drama following a cow town lawyer and cattle rancher in the Old West.
A 1949 radio drama series following frontier lawyer Chad Remington as he handles troubles in the Wild West town of Dos Rios.
A classic radio western drama introducing the setting and narrator Chad Remington, a frontier lawyer in the town of Dos Rios.
Frontier Town - xxxx49, episode 7 - 00 - The Seminole Strip follows Cowtown lawyer Chad Remington into a territory where a petition for county status is threatened by manufactured lawlessness.
Frontier Town episode 3, “Todd Ford,” follows lawyer-rancher Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon as they help wounded prospector Todd Ford defend a gold claim at Big Strike.
Frontier Town's “The Chase” follows lawyer and troubleshooter Chad Remington as he tracks an $80,000 cache linked to the outlaw Cimarron Whitey.
Frontier Town's "Branding the Badlands" follows lawyer Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon as they investigate Oliver Baldwin's death after a dispute over a deed for 300 versus 3,000 acres.
Frontier Town's "Trouble Rides the Rails" follows cow-town lawyer Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon toward Spread Eagle Lake, where they witness a railroad engine crash that kills two workers.
Frontier Town's 'Where Men Are Men' ties Phil Bardwell's saloon trouble to Cy Bardwell's thousand head of cattle at Fort Wingate.
["Frontier Town's \"Gun Trouble Valley\" centers on Chad Remington traveling to Burnside Falls after Harvey Burnside asks him to stop the county-seat fight with Wardance.", "Harvey and Milo Burnside split over whether Burnside Falls or Wardance should win the vote, with Milo arguing Wardance is closer to McCall's railroad terminal and Harvey calling Burnside Falls the better site.", "A bank robbery, the immediate calling of loans, and Milo's decision to move his bank make Chad suspect Cap Kilmore and the railroad are pushing residents out of Burnside Falls.", "Chad and Cherokee O'Bannon ride into Wardance with gold dust, then use the talk of land, voting, and a $50 buyback to expose the election scheme."]
Frontier Town's "The Coach That Arrived Missing" follows Chad Remington after the 11 o'clock stagecoach from Barranca Springs fails to reach Dos Rios.
Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon get pulled from trout fishing into a land-grab fight at Pat and Bridget Antrim's ranch in Dos Rios.
Frontier Town's "Death and Taxes" puts Chad Remington on the road to Medicine Creek after Bill McCarty's telegram and Mayor Richard E.
A frontier lawyer introduces his latest case involving a mother and son from the painted horse country.