The 'Roy Rogers show' Time Warp?

thanks for posting. i have been watching his movies
but i didn't know he had a tv show. i'll look for it.
people here still use horses for rough country.
except, they trailer the horse as far as they can.
 
BLACKHAWKNJ said:
A cowboy NOT riding a horse or carrying a Colt SAA-who would accept THAT?
In the 1950 there a was a series"Tales of the Texas Rangers", the stories alternated between being set in the present and the past.
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Remember the S&W .38 Heavy Duty or .44 Military revolvers on that show? They also had a comic book.

I think one Ranger was named Jace Pearson. ??
 
A year or so ago I couldn't get to sleep, and got up and watched a couple of the early RR episodes. What was interesting was how cheaply and primitively they were filmed and how simplistic the plots were, with almost nothing that could be called "production values." But I guess that back then, the kids didn't care much about things like that. I thought it was funny Dale Evans was cooking in the kitchen while wearing her cowgirl getup and a sixgun.
 
susieqz said:
i thot dale was roy's only wife,
who was the first?
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Roy’s first wife, Dusty’s Mother, was Arline Wilkins from Roswell.
Roy and the Sons of the Pioneers were performing in Roswell and being interviewed on a local radio station.
A lady called in and told them if they would wait a few minutes at the station, she would bring them some homemade apple pie.
She showed up with the pie and her daughter Arline.
My Buddy Joe used to live near Roy Rogers, Jr, Dusty, out in Apple Valley, CA.
I think Dusty is now in Branson.
 
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Roy's childhood home was in Duck Run, Ohio, about 20 miles from where I was born and raised. His real name was Leonard Slye, and my father and mother knew one of his uncles very well. He was a meatcutter, and had only about half his fingers. Roy was sort of a local hero. I remember he came back to town for some event in the late 1950s, and I got to sit a few chairs away from him in the auditorium. A big thrill. Dale Evans was originally from Uvalde TX, about 85 miles west of San Antonio, and I drive through there several times per month.
 
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All this "time warp" talk reminds me of the "Sky King" TV show. I haven't seen it since I was a little kid, but as I recall, Sky King would fly around in the twin-engine Song Bird, but on the ground everyone was riding horses, shooting single action Colts, rustling cattle, etc.
 
Gene Autry's movies were notable for being set in contemporary modern times, but with everyone riding horses, carrying SAAs, etc. I remember seeing one where Gene and someone else were riding in a passenger airliner.
 
Pat Buttram was the comic relief, one of the running gags was that "Nellybelle" had a mind of its own.
Jace Pearson-played by Willard Parker-was the lead on "Tales of the Texas Rangers".
 
Long ago I had a girlfriend who had a car she called "Nellybelle." But it was an Olds, not a Jeep. And she didn't look much like Pat Brady either.
 
I used to watch the show all the time but I was pretty young and it never occurred to me that the sidekick was driving a jeep and they were riding around like cowboys. I watched an episode a couple years ago and it was pretty lame.
 
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