Hopalong Cassidy
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Sep 29, 2026
Bob HopeHOST
What's that?
speaker_10VOICE_ACTOR
I'll take away your Hopalong Cassidy suit
speaker_9UNKNOWN
[laughing]
Bob HopeHOST
Well, good
Shel HoltzHOST
Brian Kilgore in Toronto said, good show.
Shel HoltzHOST
In my life, I've worn Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and Hopalong Cassidy clothes, an MG t-shirt, and a sweatshirt I designed using ASCII code as the hook for CNCP telecommunications.
Shel HoltzHOST
One cap that I've lost says, Nikon most excellent.
Shel HoltzHOST
So Brian has... been fans of a number of things and then we got an audio comment and it is from our tech reporter Dan York.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The young and restless, the seeking, striving, progressive spirit of America is strong in us still.
speaker_1NARRATOR
If you don't believe it, just try to switch off that television when a Western is on, or just try to get down your own street tomorrow morning without being held up by a miniature Hopalong Cassidy, Buck Jones or Tim McCoy.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Oh, it's bred in us, this love of the open, this thrill of pioneering and discovery.
speaker_1NARRATOR
It's the period of our history we call Westering, the settling of America by men and women of great faith and simple wisdom.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Here is the original broadcast.
JimboNARRATOR
Biography of William Boyd William Lawrence Boyd, better known to millions as one of the first multimedia heroes, Hopalong Cassidy, was born on June 5, 1895, in Belmont County, Ohio.
JimboNARRATOR
He was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and following the death of his father, moved to California, working many odd jobs until he started finding extra work in Hollywood, beginning with...
JimboNARRATOR
Why change your wife in 1920? He became a leading man in silent film, starring in Cecil B.
JimboNARRATOR
Boyd's film contract with Radio Pictures was cut short when a 1931 newspaper report confused him with another actor, whose name was William Stage Boyd, who had been arrested.
JimboNARRATOR
He acted in small roles for several years, using the more nondescript name Bill Boyd to prevent further confusion.
JimboNARRATOR
In 1935, he assumed the iconic role of Hopalong Cassidy, having first been offered a supporting role.
JimboNARRATOR
Boyd changed Clarence Mulford's rough-edged character into a teetotaling cowboy hero that was an immediate hit.
Andrew RinesHOST
I'm your host, Andrew Rines, and let's get into this episode.
Andrew RinesHOST
This episode's gonna be Hopalong Cassidy.
Andrew RinesHOST
Original air date is June 25th, 1950, and the title is The Flying Outlaw.
Andrew RinesHOST
Hope you enjoy.
7 MINS LATER
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
Zeb, Zeb, could you come here a minute?
speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
Oh, Myra.
speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
Uh, meet my friend Hopalong Cassidy and California Carlson here.
speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
This is my wife, Myra.
Malcolm McDowellGUEST
As a child, I love Westerns.
Malcolm McDowellGUEST
And, of course, we all saw the Saturday morning pictures, you know, Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers and all that.
Malcolm McDowellGUEST
So to do a Western, I think every actor really wants to do one.
Malcolm McDowellGUEST
But, you know, when I started, it was revolutions and, you know... big revolution in a boy's school or Clockwork Orange kind of thing, bangs.
John Cena Sr.GUEST
And I was allowed to watch the one and only great late, God rest his soul, Gordon Soley, every Saturday morning with professional wrestling.
John Cena Sr.GUEST
But we had to turn that off so we could watch Hopalong Cassidy.
John Cena Sr.GUEST
So I probably started looking at that stuff when I was 15 or 16 years old.
Stanley CarrHOST
Oh, my gosh.
William BoydVOICE_ACTOR
What was that you were saying, Zeb, about the road agents?
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
A bunch of them are working in this territory, Huffy, picking off gold shipments on the express stages.
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
We figured they got a hideout on these hills somewhere.
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
So when I come across your trail, naturally I...
William BoydVOICE_ACTOR
Yeah, I don't blame you.
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
By the way, Huffy, what are you doing here?
William BoydVOICE_ACTOR
Trying to throw a loop on an old Bar 20 hand we need at the ranch right now.
William BoydVOICE_ACTOR
He already bought himself a gold pan and lit out for Argonaut when the strike news got out.
Jim StormGUEST
And it's, you know, it gives them a great joy.
Jim StormGUEST
You know, I remember having signatures of Hopalong Cassidy.
Jim StormGUEST
My God.
Jim StormGUEST
It was, you know, and not Gene Autry, but Roy Rogers.
Sam SpadeVOICE_ACTOR
From Samuel Spade, license number 137596.
Sam SpadeVOICE_ACTOR
Subject, a Wild West caper, or Hopalong Cassidy can have it.
Sam SpadeVOICE_ACTOR
Dear Halliday, I should say at this very instant I should be cramming for my entrance exams to the Mission Home for Saddle-Sore Private Detectives.
Sam SpadeVOICE_ACTOR
But knowing how this report will tidy up your files, I should proceed in a standing position.
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