Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring real stories about the old West America, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns (updated with new narratives) continued until August 1, 1975. The radio and TV versions were combined to make the show " one of the longest western programs in broadcasting history. "
The series is sponsored by the Pacific Coast Coastal Company (20 Mule Borax Team, Boraxo) and hosted by Stanley Andrews, aka "Old Ranger" (1952-1963), Ronald Reagan (1964-1965), Rosemary DeCamp (1965), Robert Taylor 1966-1969), and Dale Robertson (1969-1970). With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all former Death Valley Days hosts have now died. Hosting this series is Reagan's last work as an actor; he was cast in eight series episodes.
The TV series was compiled by Pacific Coast Borax Company advertising agency, McCann-Erickson through the company's executives Dorothy McCann and Mitchell J. Hamilburg representing the production company Gene Autry, Flying A Productions.
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Part of the series was filmed in Kanab, Utah.
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Host
Each of the 452 television episodes was introduced by the host. The Last Ranger is "The Old Ranger", a character played by veteran actor Stanley Andrews from 1952 to 1963.
After Andrews's departure, all subsequent hosts appear in their own names. The first is the movie actor Ronald Reagan, the former host of the General Electric Theater and the President of the United States in the future. Reagan also acted in 21 episodes of Death Valley Days, including the 1965 episode "A City Is Born". In that one, he played mining developer Charles Poston, Arizona's founder. When Reagan enters the race for the governor of California, actress Rosemary DeCamp fills in as a host for a short time. Then the position of Death Valley Day went to Reagan's friend and fellow Hollywood actor, Robert Taylor. Like Reagan, Taylor appeared on several occasions, including "All Delinquent Marriage Days" (1966), also based on Charles Poston's career.
Taylor was instrumental in the 1967 episode "Halo for Badman" as Porter Stockman, a former inmate hired by the mayor (Roy Barcroft) from Las Animas, Colorado, to become the town marshal. Stockman had to stand for a gang of criminals who robbed every gold shipment that came to town. He played Horace Bell in another episode of 1967, "Major Horace Bell." In the plot, Major Bell, an early Los Angeles settler, defends a man whom he believes has been framed for murder. That same year in the episode of "Shanghai Kelly Birthday Party", Taylor played James Kelly from San Francisco, who alienated the sailors to the ship that headed to the Far East, in the hope that no one will return to accuse Kelly of committing a crime. Taylor also played James Reavis, called "Baron of Arizona", in the 1968 episode "The Pieces of the Puzzle".
When Taylor became ill in 1969, he was replaced by Dale Robertson, the former star of two other western series, Tales of Wells Fargo and The Iron Horse . The production of the new episode stopped in 1970, but the singer Merle Haggard gave a narrative in 1975 for several pre-made episodes.
During the final years of the series, several new episodes are still being created while older episodes are already in syndication. In some markets, new episodes can even compete with older ones. To make it easy for viewers to distinguish between old and new, some blocked episodes of "Death Valley Days" are shown below the other series names, and with different hosts. This was a common practice at the time among the series of syndications, as it was easy to re-record the hosting parts of an episode without affecting the main content. Alternative host and serial titles include Frontier Adventure (Dale Robertson), The Pioneers (Will Rogers, Jr.), West Path ( Ray Milland), Western Star Theater (Rory Calhoun), and West Calls (John Payne). The last title is also often applied to the theme music that is memorable and haunting series.
During the first two years, the series was produced by Flying A Productions; then from 1954 to 1956, it was handled by McGowan Productions, also known for the series of Sky King . Filmaster Productions Inc., which produced the first few seasons of Gunsmoke for CBS Television, took over the production of this series after 1956. Madison Productions took over producing the series in 1965.
Although Rio Tinto, the successor-in-interest for the original sponsor of the series, US Borax, still has a financial stake in the event because copyright is still held by the United States Borax and Chemical Corporation, the main rights are now held by SFM Entertainment for broadcasting rights and Yelling! Factory for home video rights.
Borax
Under the title of Death Valley Days, the program is sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, which during the course of the program changed its name to US Borax Company after the merger. Advertisements for the company's most famous products, 20 Mule Team Borax, laundry additives, Borateem, detergent, and Boraxo, hand soap powder, often done by the host program. Death Valley is the scene of many mining operations of borax companies. The 20-Mule Team Borax consumer product division of US Borax was eventually purchased by Dial Company, which in 2014, as a division of German consumer products relating to Henkel, still manufactures and markets it. Rio Tinto Group absorbed Borax mining operations in the US in 1968 and now has a TV series.
Death Valley Days is by far the most successful syndication television series in the west, the most successful television ever in half hour format, and one of the longest and most successful syndication series in writing. The end of the series, coupled with the simultaneous end of Gunsmoke, marks the collapse of the traditional Western era on American television; in the mid-1970s, although western elements are still quite common in modern series, such as Little House on the Prairie , pure western series is a thing of the past.
Yelling! The factory (on behalf of SFM Entertainment and Rio Tinto), has released the first two seasons on DVD in Region 1. Both seasons are released as exclusive Walmart. The third season was released on March 21, 2017 The thirteenth season was released on July 31, 2017 as an exclusive Walmart. Then, on Tuesday, 3 October 2017, the title will "widen" with a general retail release. Fourteenth season will be released on January 2, 2018.
Recovery
The Paul Korver corporation, Cinelicious in Hollywood is part of the restoration of the Death Valley Days TV series, recovering 458 half-hour movie episodes. Cinelicious works with US Borax Film Archives and Rio Tinto Group, in preserving the TV series. Film 16mm, and 35 mm Death Valley Days scanned at 4K resolution for movie preservation on Scanity starting 2013.
Rebroadcasts
Several episodes of the series were re-run with different sponsorship titled The Pioneers .
The restored TV series are currently being broadcast on the Grit network in the United States.
Two episodes of Death Valley Days are displayed on weekdays from 6:35 am. East on the Western Channel Encore.
Awards and nominations
In the 1955-1956 season, NBC offered the Frontier , a Western anthology series similar to Death Valley Days hosted by Walter Coy. Although Frontier , the stepping stone for Western actor Jack Elam, nominated for an Emmy Award, was canceled after one season.
See also
- Born in East L.A. (song), whose show is the plot point
References
- Tim Brooks & amp; Earle Marsh, Full Directory for Primary Time Network and Cable TV Shows
External links
- Death Valley Days Official Site
- Death Valley Days on IMDb
- Death Valley Days on TV.com
- Death Valley Days , free download on Internet Archive
- Death Valley Days at CVTA
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