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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/6128099/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Film History</category><copyright>Copyright Radio Shows of the Past!</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg</url><title>Hopalong Cassidy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/hopalong-cassidy--6128099</link></image><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 15:02:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:name><itunes:email>feeds@spreaker.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="TV &amp; Film"><itunes:category text="Film History"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="History"/><itunes:category text="TV &amp; Film"/><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>The_Disappearing_Deputy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-disappearing-deputy--59132881</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132881</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:06:47 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132881/hopalong_cassidy_500813_0033_the_disappearing_deputy.mp3" length="6002909" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/f5a4dd63-fc2e-4f17-be69-9c938dc64e43/f5a4dd63-fc2e-4f17-be69-9c938dc64e43.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/f5a4dd63-fc2e-4f17-be69-9c938dc64e43/f5a4dd63-fc2e-4f17-be69-9c938dc64e43.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/f5a4dd63-fc2e-4f17-be69-9c938dc64e43/f5a4dd63-fc2e-4f17-be69-9c938dc64e43.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1501</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>30</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Red_Terror</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-terror--59132880</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132880</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:06:25 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132880/hopalong_cassidy_500917_0038_the_red_terror.mp3" length="6362167" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/34867b91-a1bc-4b18-8433-b6f558ce6d8e/34867b91-a1bc-4b18-8433-b6f558ce6d8e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/34867b91-a1bc-4b18-8433-b6f558ce6d8e/34867b91-a1bc-4b18-8433-b6f558ce6d8e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/34867b91-a1bc-4b18-8433-b6f558ce6d8e/34867b91-a1bc-4b18-8433-b6f558ce6d8e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1589</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>29</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>An_Old_Spanish_Custom</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-old-spanish-custom--59132879</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132879</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:05:59 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132879/hopalong_cassidy_500827_0035_an_old_spanish_custom.mp3" length="5899055" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/47e18b57-f6e9-41ee-a9b7-a1519bbd9a6c/47e18b57-f6e9-41ee-a9b7-a1519bbd9a6c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/47e18b57-f6e9-41ee-a9b7-a1519bbd9a6c/47e18b57-f6e9-41ee-a9b7-a1519bbd9a6c.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/47e18b57-f6e9-41ee-a9b7-a1519bbd9a6c/47e18b57-f6e9-41ee-a9b7-a1519bbd9a6c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1475</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>28</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Four_to_Go</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/four-to-go--59132878</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132878</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:05:38 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132878/hopalong_cassidy_500910_0037_four_to_go.mp3" length="5862801" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/87f2f332-816f-4185-918d-3ffa390d62ee/87f2f332-816f-4185-918d-3ffa390d62ee.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/87f2f332-816f-4185-918d-3ffa390d62ee/87f2f332-816f-4185-918d-3ffa390d62ee.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/87f2f332-816f-4185-918d-3ffa390d62ee/87f2f332-816f-4185-918d-3ffa390d62ee.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1465</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>27</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Secret_of_Martin_Doon</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-of-martin-doon--59132877</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132877</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:04:16 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132877/hopalong_cassidy_500903_0036_the_secret_of_martin_doon.mp3" length="5945270" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a1814fd5-9221-478c-b181-ab0258878883/a1814fd5-9221-478c-b181-ab0258878883.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a1814fd5-9221-478c-b181-ab0258878883/a1814fd5-9221-478c-b181-ab0258878883.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/a1814fd5-9221-478c-b181-ab0258878883/a1814fd5-9221-478c-b181-ab0258878883.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1486</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>26</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Whistling_Ghosts</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-whistling-ghosts--59132876</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132876</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:03:27 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132876/hopalong_cassidy_500820_0034_the_whistling_ghosts.mp3" length="5967999" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/0b98db72-7bae-4025-ae2b-f50c32e2a450/0b98db72-7bae-4025-ae2b-f50c32e2a450.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/0b98db72-7bae-4025-ae2b-f50c32e2a450/0b98db72-7bae-4025-ae2b-f50c32e2a450.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/0b98db72-7bae-4025-ae2b-f50c32e2a450/0b98db72-7bae-4025-ae2b-f50c32e2a450.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1492</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>25</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Range_War</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/range-war--59132771</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132771</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:53:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132771/hopalong_cassidy_500521_0021_range_war.mp3" length="6244488" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/4899b863-b211-4cee-b513-25ae74255d79/4899b863-b211-4cee-b513-25ae74255d79.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/4899b863-b211-4cee-b513-25ae74255d79/4899b863-b211-4cee-b513-25ae74255d79.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/4899b863-b211-4cee-b513-25ae74255d79/4899b863-b211-4cee-b513-25ae74255d79.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1562</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>24</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hopalong Cassidy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hopalong-cassidy--59132770</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132770</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:53:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132770/hopalong_cassidy_500611_0024_the_border_of_nowhere.mp3" length="6914365" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1729</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>23</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Man_Who_Made_Willy_Whirl</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-who-made-willy-whirl--59132769</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132769</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:52:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132769/hopalong_cassidy_500514_0020_the_man_who_made_willy_whirl.mp3" length="6217545" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/e73d73a1-6975-4066-bfbe-894a5db16103/e73d73a1-6975-4066-bfbe-894a5db16103.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/e73d73a1-6975-4066-bfbe-894a5db16103/e73d73a1-6975-4066-bfbe-894a5db16103.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/e73d73a1-6975-4066-bfbe-894a5db16103/e73d73a1-6975-4066-bfbe-894a5db16103.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1555</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Blood_Money</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/blood-money--59132768</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132768</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:51:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132768/hopalong_cassidy_500806_0032_blood_money.mp3" length="6181388" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/e0dc8ab6-d717-4ade-8493-ff51692cfd4f/e0dc8ab6-d717-4ade-8493-ff51692cfd4f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/e0dc8ab6-d717-4ade-8493-ff51692cfd4f/e0dc8ab6-d717-4ade-8493-ff51692cfd4f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/sounder/e0dc8ab6-d717-4ade-8493-ff51692cfd4f/e0dc8ab6-d717-4ade-8493-ff51692cfd4f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1545</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Letter_from_the_Grave</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-letter-from-the-grave--59132767</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132767</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:51:19 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132767/hopalong_cassidy_500528_0022_the_letter_from_the_grave.mp3" length="6243245" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1561</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Death_Paints_a_Picture</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-paints-a-picture--59132766</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132766</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:50:58 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132766/hopalong_cassidy_500604_0023_death_paints_a_picture.mp3" length="6282538" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1571</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hoppy_and_the_School_Marm</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hoppy-and-the-school-marm--59132765</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132765</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:49:48 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132765/hopalong_cassidy_500716_0029_hoppy_and_the_school_marm.mp3" length="6066991" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1517</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Shell_Game</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shell-game--59132764</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132764</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:49:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132764/hopalong_cassidy_500730_0031_the_shell_game.mp3" length="6315231" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1579</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Flying_Outlaw</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-flying-outlaw--59132763</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132763</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:48:44 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132763/hopalong_cassidy_500625_0026_the_flying_outlaw.mp3" length="6251918" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1561</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>16</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Medicine_Man</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-medicine-man--59132762</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132762</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:48:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132762/hopalong_cassidy_500618_0025_the_medicine_man.mp3" length="6246212" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1562</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>15</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_King_of_Cinnabar</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-king-of-cinnabar--59132761</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132761</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:47:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132761/hopalong_cassidy_500723_0030_the_king_of_cinnabar.mp3" length="6288898" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1573</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Bullots_for_Ballots</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/bullots-for-ballots--59132760</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132760</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:47:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132760/hopalong_cassidy_500430_0018_bullots_for_ballots.mp3" length="6180852" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1546</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Green_River_Payoff</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-green-river-payoff--59132759</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132759</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:47:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132759/hopalong_cassidy_500507_0019_the_green_river_payoff.mp3" length="6227778" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1557</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hoppy_Sees_Red</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hoppy-sees-red--59132757</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132757</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:46:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132757/hopalong_cassidy_500709_0028_hoppy_sees_red.mp3" length="6820896" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1705</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Sundown_Kid</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sundown-kid--59132758</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132758</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:46:21 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132758/hopalong_cassidy_500702_0027_the_sundown_kid.mp3" length="6295987" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1574</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Bandits_of_Ridge_Creek</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bandits-of-ridge-creek--59132492</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132492</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:57:59 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132492/hopalong_cassidy_500402_0014_the_bandits_of_ridge_creek.mp3" length="6262266" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1566</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Failure</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-failure--59132491</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132491</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:57:38 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132491/hopalong_cassidy_500326_0013_the_failure.mp3" length="6259531" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1565</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Rainmaker_of_Eagle_Mountain</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rainmaker-of-eagle-mountain--59132489</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132489</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:56:59 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132489/hopalong_cassidy_500108_0002_the_rainmaker_of_eagle_mountain.mp3" length="12384037" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1556</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Red_Rock_Mesa</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-rock-mesa--59132488</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132488</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:56:23 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132488/hopalong_cassidy_500312_0011_the_red_rock_mesa.mp3" length="26023192" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1627</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Phantom_Bandito</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-phantom-bandito--59132487</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132487</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:56:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132487/hopalong_cassidy_500205_0006_the_phantom_bandito.mp3" length="26556091" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1661</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Red_Death</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-death--59132485</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132485</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:55:44 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132485/hopalong_cassidy_500416_0016_the_red_death.mp3" length="6278032" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1570</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hoppy_Takes_a_Chance</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hoppy-takes-a-chance--59132483</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132483</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:55:23 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132483/hopalong_cassidy_500219_0008_hoppy_takes_a_chance.mp3" length="27799939" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. 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Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1738</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Murder_on_the_Trail</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/murder-on-the-trail--59132482</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132482</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:55:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132482/hopalong_cassidy_500212_0007_murder_on_the_trail.mp3" length="27272473" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1705</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The_Dead_Mans_Hand</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dead-mans-hand--59132478</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59132478</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:54:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59132478/hopalong_cassidy_500101_0001_the_dead_mans_hand.mp3" length="27595138" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Radio Shows of the Past!</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Hopalong Cassidy</b> is a fictional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cowboy</a> hero created in 1904 by the author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_E._Mulford" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clarence E. Mulford</a>, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking.<br /><br />He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname.From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Boyd</a>, who portrayed Cassidy first in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hopalong_Cassidy_films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">series of sixty-six films</a> from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(radio_program)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy_(TV_series)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TV series</a>, both of which lasted until 1952.<br /><br />Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sarsaparilla</a>-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings.At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional novels by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Louis L'Amour</a> (writing as Tex Burns), and even a short-lived amusement park, "Hoppyland", in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Venice, Los Angeles</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1725</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>film,history,hopalong,hopalongcassidy,western</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e8d767a1164977f96ba90a767606e85.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
