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Fort Laramie
39 episodes · 1956 · CBS, Armed Forces Radio Service · Westerns
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Raymond Burr played Captain Lee Quince, a cavalry officer at a frontier fort watching over a nearby Sioux reservation, in this CBS Western from January 22 to October 28, 1956: 41 episodes, Sundays at 5:30. Norman Macdonnell of Gunsmoke produced and directed, Kathleen Hite wrote most of the scripts, and much of the Gunsmoke company turned up in the cast.
Sources: Fort Laramie (radio), Wikipedia
Episodes
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1956
- Playing Indian
The first show: Captain Quince sets a trap for horse thieves and killers who are dressing up as Arapahos. - Boatwright's Story
Captain Quince leads a patrol to stop a trader selling repeating rifles to Yellow Knife's warriors. - Squaw Man
A white man living with the Arapaho brings word that the tribe has left the reservation in search of food. - Woman at Horse Creek
A newly widowed woman refuses to leave her homestead on the open prairie, alone and in danger. - Boredom
A private sick of garrison life schemes to stir up some action with the Cheyenne, and gets more than he wanted. - Captains Widow
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Shavetail
A young lieutenant disobeys orders for what seemed a good reason, and must outwit Squaw Dog. - Hattie Pelfrey
Wounded and running from the Arapaho, Captain Quince takes shelter in the cabin of an odd old woman, Hattie Pelfrey. - The Beasley Girls
Quince tries to trade a captured Sioux chief for two white women held by the tribe. - The Coward
A lieutenant unjustly branded a coward arrives at Fort Laramie with something to prove. - Lost Child
A major who believes in Custer's hard line toward the Indians puts the post at risk. - Stage Coach Stop
Mrs. Kleinhexel and her giggling daughter arrive for the fort's dance, while a prisoner, Yellow Horse, plots to break out of the stockade. - The New Recruit
A man who was never much of a soldier re-enlists, and his reason is a strange one. - Quince's Capture
Red Horse is dying and asks for his son, but young Snowfoot refuses to come onto the reservation. - Never the Twain
A trooper and the daughter of Spotted Tail fall in love. - The War Correspondent
A New York reporter comes west to write the truth about the frontier, and learns a few things himself. - Black Hills Gold
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date. - Sergeant Gorce's Baby
With a baby on the way at the post and the garrison left in his charge, Captain Quince ends up helping as midwife, with Sergeant Gorce. - Don't Kick My Horse
A trooper's devotion to his aging horse puts the whole patrol in danger during an attack. - The Young Trooper
A boy named Jed survives an Indian massacre and joins the army. - The Winter Soldier
A soldier who joined up for the winter decides to desert when spring comes. - The Loving Cup
Captain Quince finds an unusual way to give a young lieutenant the confidence he needs to lead. - Trooper's Widow
A trooper's new bride learns the hard truths of frontier life the hard way. - The Talented Recruits
A patent-medicine man and a Shakespearean actor enlist together and learn soldiering the hard way. - The Old Enemy
A trooper named Patchen, a man from Captain Quince's past, joins the troop and brings trouble with him. - Spotted Tail's Return
Spotted Tail suddenly leads his whole people off the reservation, and Quince rides out with sixty troopers to learn why. - Nature Boy
The Quiring family arrives at the fort: the strangest trio the plains have ever seen. - The Massacre
A fanatical major attacks a peaceful Shoshone camp. - Assembly Line
The Indian agent expects an uprising, and he has good reason to. - Goodbye Willa
Captain Quince finally takes the plunge and proposes to Miss Willa. - Chaplain
Scurvy has put fifty-nine men on the sick list, and there's no fresh food anywhere on the prairie. - The Return of Hattie Pelfrey
Hattie Pelfrey comes to Fort Laramie feeling poorly, to visit her son, Captain Quince. - Buffalo Hunters
Quince trails hunters slaughtering buffalo on Indian land. - The Payroll
The paymaster is four months late, and his arrival brings trouble. Producer Norman Macdonnell closes with a short history of the real Fort Laramie. - A Small Beginning
Quince and the troop head into the Black Hills to find Sitting Bull. - Galvanized Yankee
A former Confederate soldier joins Company B, and makes no secret of how he feels about Yankees. - Still Waters
A ladies' committee for moral improvement visits the fort, and the beer goes first. - Indian Scout
Charlie, a Crow scout with four bullets in his leg and a fondness for stealing horses. - Army Wife
After thirty years following the army, a soldier's wife is suddenly a widow.