Gene Autry is the only entertainer with all five stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, one each for Radio, Recording, Motion Pictures, Television and Live Performance. By the middle of the 20th Century, Autry was a box office smash with his musical B Westerns, touring with his rodeo across the United States and the British Isles, and had several gold records including his Christmas classic Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Autry’s highly anticipated television debut on CBS-TV, July 23, 1950, placed him immediately in the ranks of television’s topmost attractions. What’s more, with TV, America’s beloved cowboy star added still another to his long list of illustrious “firsts.” He became the first topflight motion picture star to make films especially for the Golden Age of Television.
The Gene Autry Show, sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum, originally aired on CBS from 1950 to 1955. The program follows the adventures of singing cowboy Gene Autry, his Wonder Horse Champion, and his sidekick Pat Buttram, who travel the Southwest to maintain law and order. The series is a collection of stand-alone half-hour episodes: sometimes Gene and Pat know each other and sometimes they do not; some shows are set in the past and some are in the near present of the early 1950s. Each unique show has Gene’s trademark mixture of action, comedy, and singing. It also features a wide range of guests, including Gail Davis, Alan Hale Jr., Harry Lauter, Donna Martell, Denver Pyle, Elaine Riley, William Fawcett, Gloria Winter, and Dick Jones.
Now, for the first time on DVD, the complete Season Two of Gene Autry’s landmark television series The Gene Autry Show is brought home in these fully restored and uncut episodes from Autry’s personal film and television archive. See for yourself why the hard riding, furious fighting, and smooth singing Gene Autry is considered America’s favorite cowboy.
DVD FEATURES
• Full Screen Presentation • Interactive Menus • Episode Selection • Bonus Features
Disc 1
Episode 1: Ghost Town Raiders - October 6, 1951
Stolen gold is mysteriously smuggled over the border and special agent Gene Autry risks his life to track down bandits who operate from a ghost town.
Episode 2: Frontier Guard - October 13, 1951
Border patrol agent Gene Autry and Pat Buttram help a rancher who is being terrorized. After preventing the attempted kidnapping of the rancher's daughter, they investigate the attacks.
Episode 3: Silver Dollars - October 20, 1951
Gene and Pat join forces with a sheriff to uncover the murdering outlaws behind a silver dollar counterfeiting ring.
Episode 4: Killer's Trail - October 27, 1951
Gene and Pat discover the true identity of the outlaw called El Avengador when they rescue a girl being pursued by three men.
Episode 5: Frame For Trouble - November 3, 1951
Gene is falsely accused for murder when he keeps information about a captured gunslinger's secret rendezvous.
Episode 6: Warning! Danger! - November 10, 1951
Gene befriends two orphans whose older brother is involved with a notorious train robber.
Episode 7: Revenge Trail - November 17, 1951
Using hypnotism, Pat Buttram helps U.S. Marshal Gene Autry solve a series of mysterious murders.
Bonus: Melody Ranch Radio Show - December 15, 1951
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Disc 2
Episode 8: The Bandits of Boulder Bluff - November 24, 1951
Marshal Gene Autry aids Sheriff Pat Buttram in exposing the true murderer in a gold rush robbery after an innocent man is falsely accused.
Episode 9: Outlaw Escape - December 1, 1951
Pat is elected sheriff of Goose Creek so that town boss Brad Bidwell's illegal schemes can proceed undeterred. However, Pat hires his friend Gene as deputy sheriff to help bring the outlaws to justice.
Episode 10: The Kid Comes West - December 8, 1951
When his daughter dies, an elderly rancher sends for his grandchild, whom he plans to make his heir. Gene and Pat go to meet the boy's stage, but find some unexpected trouble.
Episode 11: Return of Maverick Dan - December 15, 1951
Deputy Marshal Gene is on the trail of Maverick Dan when he meets the man's sister. The girl believes her brother is innocent and asks Gene to investigate. When he does, Gene discovers surprising results.
Episode 12: Galloping Hoofs - December 22, 1951
Gene learns that a convicted embezzler has escaped from jail. The thief accuses his partner of double crossing him, and Gene intervenes to see that justice is done.
Episode 13: Heir to the Lazy L - December 29, 1951
Gene inherits half of the Lazy L Ranch from his uncle. When he learns that the owner of the other half - a headstrong woman - plans to sell, Gene suspects a plot.
Bonus: Photo Gallery - Flying A Pictures
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Disc 3
Episode 14: Melody Mesa - January 4, 1952
Gene's sheriff friend asks the cowboy to pose as a music teacher to trap a counterfeiting gang.
Episode 15: Horse Sense - January 11, 1952
Gene and Pat are hired by a young rancher and her brother to help train horses. Champion's uncanny intelligence proves vital in bringing to justice a crook who is also working at the same ranch.
Episode 16: Rock River Feud - January 18, 1952
When Pat inherits a stage line from a distant relative, he an Gene become involved in a long-standing feud between the Buttrams and the Fords.
Episode 17: The Lawless Press - January 25, 1952
Sheriff Gene Autry faces a crooked newspaper publisher with an egomaniacal nose-for-news who prints headlines reporting crimes before they are committed.
Episode 18: The Western Way - February 1, 1952
Gene and Pat capture a bank robber, who turns out to be their friend Ma Walker's son.
Episode 19: The Ruthless Renegade - February 8, 1952
U.S. Marshals Gene and Pat are drawn into the conflict between a crusading newspaperwoman and a ruthless town leader.
Episode 20: Hot Lead and Old Lace - February 15, 1952
Gene and Pat help a courageous old lady defend a ranch after the owner is murdered.
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Disc 4
Episode 21: Blazeaway - February 22, 1952
Following a series of tomahawk killings, Cavalry officer Gene Autry helps prove the innocence of an Indian tribe.
Episode 22: Bullets and Bows - March 2, 1952
Gene's friend Pat, owner of the town's tailor shop, gets a shipment of ladies' clothing by mistake. The error provides a local big shot with a way to get Pat's prime property.
Episode 23: Trouble at Silver Creek - March 9, 1952
Sheriff Gene Autry and Deputy pat Buttram help a reformed outlaw and his daughter when a rich and unscrupulous man tries to blackmail them.
Episode 24: Six Gun Romeo - March 16, 1952
Gene tangles with Pat's mail-order sweetheart and a gold thief.
Episode 25: The Sheriff is a Lady - March 23, 1952
Texas Border Patrol agents Gene and Pat find the,selves up against a lady sheriff who mistakes them for gun-smugglers.
Episode 26: The Trail of the Witch - March 30, 1952
Gene and Pat are called in by a young sheriff to help stop a series of mine shipment robberies by an unknown gang. The trail leads to witch-like recluse's cabin.
Bonus: Gene Autry Film Trailers: Hills of Utah, Valley of Fire, Valley of Fire with German & French subtitles, The Old West, and Night Stage to Galveston.
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