Gene Autry Show - The Complete First Season

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: sometime Gene and Pat know each other 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 the Cass County Boys, Sheila Ryan, Alan Hale Jr., Gail Davis, Harry Lauter, Chill Wills, John Doucette, Fuzzy Knight and Dick Jones.

Now, for the first time on DVD, the complete Season One of Gene Autry's landmark television 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.

Each television episode of The Gene Autry Show is a complete story told in twenty-seven minutes of wholesome, rugged, exciting Western adventure with Gene's songs - at least one to an episode - neatly blended into the plot. Featured with the star is always the World's Wonder Horse, Champion.

Disc 1

-Episode 1: Head for Texas - July 23, 1950

Gene returns from a trip, only to find that his boss' new ranch hands are really rustlers in disguise.

-Episode 2: Gold Dust Charlie - July 30, 1950

Gene stumbles upon a murdered prospector and finds gold while digging the old man's grave, only to be arrested on suspicion of murder.

-Episode 3: The Silver Arrow - August 6, 1950

Gene's discovery of a dead man with a silver arrow in his chest leads him to a wrongfully convicted robber.

-Episode 4: The Doodle Bug - August 12, 1950

While Gene and Pat are out investigating a series of recent holdups, they narrowly escape landslide trap.

-Episode 5: The Star Toter - August 20, 1950

Gene dons a sheriff's badge to pursue a homicidal bank robber with a ten year-old wayward son.

-Episode 6: The Double Switch - August 27, 1950

Gene and Pat unmask an unexpected bandit leader when they investigate recent stagecoach robberies.

Disc 2

-Episode 7: Blackwater Valley Feud - September 3, 1950

A disguised crook tries to break up a neighboring ranch and put the blame on Gene's boss.

-Episode 8: Doublecross Valley - September 10, 1950

Investigating a mysterious gang that has been trying to gain possession of a local ranch, Gene stumbles upon the legend of buried gold.

-Episode 9: The Posse - September 17, 1950

Gene temporarily turns over his ranch to a former outlaw who wants to impress his visiting daughter.

-Episode 10: The Devil's Brand - September 24, 1950

Foreman Gene leads a manhunt for the killer of his boss, owner of the Rocking R Ranch, but outlaw killers have some plans of their own.

-Episode 11: Six-Shooter Sweepstakes - October 1, 1950

Champion helps Gene track down some outlaws when the "Wonder Horse" is entered in what turns out to be a fixed race.

-Episode 12: The Poisoned Waterhole - October 8, 1950

Gene discovers a poisoned waterhole while on a hunting trip and runs into trouble with an Indian tribe and a railroad gang.

Disc 3

-Episode 13: The Lost Chance - October 15, 1950

Gene helps a Mexican boy kidnapped by a gang of outlaws who believe he knows the way to a legendary gold mine.

-Episode 14: The Black Rider - October 22, 1950

Gene tangles with the mysterious Black Rider, who is terrorizing the entire town. The desperate outlaw plans revenge on everyone connected with the execution of a killer.

-Episode 15: Gun Powder Range - October 29, 1950

Gene and Pat risk disgrace and death in a desperate attempt to convince a boy that there is nothing heroic about the life of an outlaw.

-Episode 16: The Breakup - November 5, 1950

Gene and his pal Pat help a wounded rancher and discover that the man's son-in-law is suspected of the shooting.

-Episode 17: Twisted Trails - November 12, 1950

Gene helps a thirteen-year-old boy who has traveled west in search of his father, a man he does not know is actually an outlaw.

-Episode 18: The Fight At Peaceful Mesa - November 19, 1950

While in search of a masked gang, Gene and Pat find a dying rancher, only to find themselves in danger trying to carry out the rancher's oral will.

-Episode 19: Hot Lead - November 26, 1950

When Gene befriends a young boy and a mistreated palomino, his kindness is repaid in an unexpected way while on the trail of bank robbers.
 
Disc 4

-Episode 20: The Gray Dude - December 3, 1950

U.S. Marshall Gene Autry sets out to capture the killer of his friend only to discover the Sheriff is in cahoots with the outlaws.

-Episode 21: The Killer Horse - December 10, 1950

Gene protects a young boy's wild horse falsely accused of killing an old prospector. Gene sets out to find the real killer.

-Episode 22: The Peacemaker - December 17, 1950

Gene helps a rainmaker and several honest ranchers drive out land-swindlers and a drought.

-Episode 23: The Sheriff of Santa Rosa - December 24, 1950

Sheriff Gene Autry lets a young ranch owner, suspected of horse stealing, escape from jail.

-Episode 24: T.N.T. - December 31, 1950

Gene gets in unexpected trouble when he befriends an apparently homeless little girl.

-Episode 25: The Raiders - April 14, 1951

A notorious outlaw steals the payroll from a construction company, fooling his own fiancée into helping him, but Gene plans a trap for the gangster.

-Episode 26: Double Barreled Vengeance - April 21, 1951

As a special investigator for an express company, Gene has to turn outlaw to find stolen money.

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