Roy Rogers Show – Season 1 – Episode 5 – Train Robbery | Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, Trigger

The local postmaster hires two crooks to blow up and rob a train carrying a valuable bank shipment.

The show starred Roy Rogers as a ranch owner, Dale Evans as the proprietress of the Eureka Café and Hotel in fictional Mineral City, and Pat Brady as Roy’s sidekick and Dale’s cook. Brady’s Jeep Nellybelle at times had a mind of her own and sped away driverless with Brady in frantic pursuit on foot. Animal stars were Roy’s Palomino horse Trigger and his German Shepherd Bullet, the “Wonder Dog”.

As with many other Western films of the 1930s–1950s, the Roy Rogers Show featured cowboys and cowgirls riding horses and carrying six-shooters, but unlike traditional westerns, the series had a contemporary setting with automobiles, telephones, and electric lighting. No attempt was made in the scripts to explain or justify this strange amalgamation of 19th-century characters with 20th-century technology. Typical episodes followed the stars as they rescued the weak and helpless from the clutches of dishonest lawmen, con artists, bank robbers, claim jumpers, rustlers, and other “bad guys.” In addition to traditional Western plot themes such as cattle rustling and bank robberies, the program featured more contemporary topics, including gun safety and conservation of natural resources. “Many of the shows expressed a moral, and several preached a Christian message.”

The show received an Emmy nomination in 1955 for Best Western or Adventure Series, but it lost out to the syndicated Stories of the Century, an anthology series starring and narrated by Jim Davis. The series finished #27 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1951-1952 season and #30 for 1954-1955.

Directed by Robert G. Walker, Don McDougall, Leslie H. Martinson
Starring Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, Trigger

Cast
Dale Evans as Dale Evans
Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers
Trigger as Trigger
Pat Brady as Pat Brady
Bullet as Bullet
Harry Harvey as Sheriff
Russ Scott as Henchman
Buttermilk as Dale’s Horse
Wally West as Henchman
Jack O’Shea as Banker
Don C. Harvey as Cub Wiley
Terry Frost as Henchman