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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Frontier Gentleman" - The Claim Jumpers (Aired March 9, 1958)

Television was already in reruns of the twenty to thirty western adventures that proliferated on TV during the 1950s. And it was stiff competition, to be sure. Gunsmoke had achieved off the chart ratings for years, and Have Gun, Will Travel was very much a thinking person\'s western. This takes nothing away from either John Dehner or Ben Wright\'s performances in the least. They were consistently top notch. But we\'d venture to say that Frontier Gentleman is heard today by far more listeners than ever heard it when it was first broadcast. Be that as it may, it\'s the listeners of today that matter now. Frontier Gentleman consistently offers a wonderful variation on the western theme. Show Notes From The Old Time Radio Researcher\'s Group.



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March 9, 1958. CBS network. "The Claim-Jumpers". Sustaining. A widow has only a week to get a claim-jumper off her property, or she\'ll lose it all. The claim-jumper has problems of his own! The public service announcements have been partially deleted. The script was used again on the show on October 5, 1958. John Dehner, Virginia Gregg, Eddie Firestone, Tom Hanley (writer), Antony Ellis (producer, director), Richard Perkins, Charles Seel, Bud Sewell (announcer). 22:47. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.