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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,664 posts) Thu Aug 9, 2018, 03:15 PM Aug 2018

Today's video is dedicated to samnsara, who had a question about the Roy Rogers Show

i have a question about The Roy Rogers Show...

..such as when and where was it supposed to take place? I know they were filmed in the 50s but for the life of me where in the US would have such a town? Even in the 50s there was a certain amount of civilization. Nellie Belle the jeep appears to be the only car in town NOW this episode has them chasing 'Indians' over some horses and one who shot the blacksmith 'in the back'. I'm confused where the heck this time warp town was???

Of course if they weren't going for ANYTHING real then it just fits with the rest of the flashy props.

If you thought that was confusing, get a load of this:

Gene Autry meets Roy Rogers

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Published on Jul 13, 2009
Gene Autry and sidekick Lester "Smiley" Burnette (who both launched their careers in Chicago) team up with a young Roy Rogers to capture Chicago gangsters. Note Illinois license plate on the gangsters' car at 2:44. The audio and video got slightly out of sync when I digitized the movie...sorry.

Yes, that is a dual-cowl phaeton in the middle of a cattle stempede.

I give up.

Anyway, the movie is "The Old Corral."

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Today's video is dedicated to samnsara, who had a question about the Roy Rogers Show (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 OP

Nellie Bell would not exist until around 1940, so that's weird too. dameatball Aug 2018 #1

The TV show used to come up on one of the cheapskate networks at about mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #2

Unless they meant WWI, but probably not. The show was still on in Central Florida as of 2004-6(?) dameatball Aug 2018 #3

"Here comes the stagecoach," as the film cuts to an approaching woodie station wagon... VOX Aug 2018 #4

dameatball

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1. Nellie Bell would not exist until around 1940, so that's weird too.

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Thu Aug 9, 2018, 03:27 PM

Aug 2018

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,664 posts)

2. The TV show used to come up on one of the cheapskate networks at about

Reply to dameatball (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 03:30 PM

Aug 2018

6:30 on Saturday mornings. By "cheapskate," I mean over the air, broadcast, the way hardly anyone watches TV anymore.

It was explained in at least one episode that Pat, Nelliebelle's driver, drove a tank in the war. Clearly the TV show is based on some setting in some time that is post-WWII.

Roy and Dale are on horseback, but Pat and the actors and actresses who appear only sporadically drive cars.

One watches with great disbelief, if not outright exasperation, and one must dispense with logic to make through an episode of this show.

"The Old Corral" is from 1936.

dameatball

(7,400 posts)

3. Unless they meant WWI, but probably not. The show was still on in Central Florida as of 2004-6(?)

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 04:36 PM

Aug 2018

I mentioned here many posts ago how Charles Bronson had been on one of the shows back when his last name wasn't Bronson. He played a boxer that traveled around and Roy had to fight him. Another weird one.

VOX

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4. "Here comes the stagecoach," as the film cuts to an approaching woodie station wagon...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 06:32 PM

Aug 2018

I saw/heard that with my own eyes/ears, and I'm 99.99% certain it was on the Roy Rogers show.

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