Andrew Rhynes
48 episodes listed below
Law, dust, and trouble in Dos Rios.
Frontier Town follows Chad Remington, a cowtown lawyer whose legal practice keeps turning into detective work, gun trouble, and civic rescue. Its 1949 serial stories move fast, with stagecoach trouble, saloon threats, land-office intimidation, range disputes, and dry frontier banter.
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Frontier Town is a 1949 old-time radio Western centered on Chad Remington, a lawyer from Dos Rios whose cases rarely stay inside ordinary law. He may call himself a cowtown lawyer or frontier lawyer, but the job description keeps expanding. A missing stagecoach means wheel tracks, armed riders, and a crooked scheme still hidden over the next rise. A town dispute can lead straight to the Lady Luck Saloon, where Dallas and his men answer questions with threats. In Thunder Over Texas, a fight over land turns into intimidation at a land office, with Doc Slavin and Cinco trying to keep farmers out by force. In Forest Fire, civic duty becomes a race against flame, dynamite, danger, and one man's ruinous selfishness. In All Trails Lead to Trouble, range rights and sheep herds become a practical problem that needs nerve as much as reason. The show likes action, but it also likes procedure. Chad studies tracks, asks pointed questions, weighs what people stand to lose, and then steps into the street when talk runs out. The narration gives each episode a firm spine. It tells the audience what happened, why it matters, and what danger is arriving next. That makes the serial feel brisk rather than murky. The dialogue has a theatrical frontier bite, with insults, threats, and jokes tossed around before someone reaches for a gun. Still, the moral world is simple. Bullies, cheats, and selfish men cause harm; decent neighbors, if organized, can hold a town together. The OTRWesterns.com presentation adds introductions from Andrew Rines and closing material around the archival stories. Some episodes also carry contemporary advertising, so the wrapper can feel different from the drama itself. The core attraction remains the same: a dusty, energetic Western where law is less a courthouse routine than a test of courage in public. It suits listeners who enjoy classic radio pacing, clear stakes, and frontier mysteries solved with a mix of wit, nerve, and practical sense.
Made for: Best for listeners who enjoy old-time radio Westerns, brisk serial adventure, frontier mysteries, and clear good-versus-bad storytelling. It also suits anyone curious about compact 1940s audio drama with OTR framing.
What sets it apart: Its lawyer hero is not confined to courtroom drama; Chad Remington works trails, saloons, land offices, fire lines, and range disputes. The result is legal adventure recast as practical frontier trouble-shooting.
Chad Remington is an aspiring new lawyer in the big city whose world and dreams are turned upside down by the news of his father’s murder back in the small ranching town of Dos Rios where he was raised. His quest to bring the killer to justice serves as the springboard to an unexpected new career as a crimefighting attorney struggling to bring order to his small corner of the frontier as it makes the difficult transition from the Old West to the New.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A frontier lawyer meets land disputes, missing coaches and open danger with argument, investigation and the occasional fast draw.
Frontier Town | OTRWesterns.com restores a 1949 radio drama in which Chad Remington narrates his work as a frontier lawyer, detective and troubleshooter.
Chad Remington practices law with a six-shooter nearby, if your ideal counsel handles range wars and missing stagecoaches.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A lean stagecoach mystery with gunplay, wisecracks, and a frontier lawyer on the hook.
Frontier Town centers on a missing stagecoach that pulls Chad Remington, Osiris's frontier lawyer, into a practical trail case with wheel tracks, armed riders, and a roadside confrontation that hardens into a gun standoff. It works best when the stakes stay plain and physical.
A saloon feud, dry jokes, and a lawyer who keeps pushing back.
Maverick Town gives Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon a sharp welcome from a town that wants them gone, while Dallas and his crew keep the pressure on around the Lady Luck Saloon.
A brisk land-war western with dry talk, clean stakes, and a lawyer who never flinches.
Frontier Town sends Chad Remington into a land dispute that begins in Sunbeam Valley and quickly widens into a fight over who gets to settle it.
A frontier fire story where pride, panic, and stubbornness keep the stakes personal.
Frontier Town's 1949 episode, Forest Fire, starts with Chad Remington, the frontier lawyer from Dos Rios, and it quickly turns a practical problem into a personal one.
Frontier Town's All Trails Lead to Trouble turns a sheep route dispute into a brisk old-time western.
Frontier Town's All Trails Lead to Trouble, first aired in 1949, keeps the stakes clear by turning a sheep route dispute into a tight frontier standoff.
Restored broadcasts, sharp shadows, bright old voices.
Chad Remington gets pulled into a missing stagecoach case.
Chad Remington opens by sketching his life in Dos Rios, where the railroad never came and a lawyer has to know cattle as well as law.
This episode features the 1949 radio western 'Frontier Town' titled 'South of Santa Fe', introducing the adventurous story of the early West and a character named Chad Remington, a Cowtown lawyer.
This 1949 Old Time Radio Western episode titled 'Branding the Badlands' follows Chad Remington, a Frontier Town lawyer in the Rocky Mountain country, as part of the adventurous saga of the early West.
This 1949 episode of Frontier Town titled 'Gun Trouble Valley' follows Chad Remington, a frontier lawyer in Dos Rios, as he navigates trouble in the Wild West.
Chad Remington gets a desperate letter that pulls him from Dos Rios into trouble in Sunbeam Valley.
Chad Remington sets the scene in Dos Rios, where a fire turns into a fight for the whole valley.
Frontier Town opens on a range dispute that is already hot.
Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon ride to Vomit Valley after Colonel Winfield writes that he needs help that is "legal, but probably otherwise." A broker named Big John Biggers insists that Winfield's ranch and Henry Trowbridge's ranch be sold together or not at all, at a price Winfield calls too high to be honest.
This episode features the 1949 radio western 'Frontier Town' titled 'Trouble Rides the Rails', following Chad Remington, a lawyer turned frontier figure in Dos Rios, as he navigates the adventurous early West.
This episode of Frontier Town from 1949 is a Western adventure set in the early West, featuring lawyer Chad Remington in the town of Dos Rios.
This episode of the Old Time Radio Westerns podcast features the 1949 syndicated show 'Frontier Town' titled 'Sundown Valley', presenting an adventurous story of the early American West through the perspective of a frontier lawyer.
This episode of the Old Time Radio Westerns podcast features the 1949 syndicated show 'Frontier Town' titled 'Six-Gun Lawyer', following lawyer Chad Remington in the cow town of Dos Rios.
This episode presents a 1949 radio western called 'Frontier Town' that tells an adventurous story of the early West through the perspective of a frontier lawyer.