The Roan Ranger - Episode 43

What deadly plans do these two strange gunmen have for Falk? Is that a horse or a cow? What’s the second best place in the world to see theatre and musicals? Find out!

The Roan Ranger, episode 43 of This Gun in My Hand, was wrangled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How we supposed to top that? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. The burned farmhouse that The Roan Ranger and Tronno are investigating was the site of a shoot-out between The Phantasm and jewel thieves in Episode 13, “OnlyPhantasm.” Later in that episode, Falk, The Phantasm and his colleague Paul confronted The World Crime Syndicate. More recently the farmhouse was destroyed during a larger battle between the World Crime Syndicate, Defenders of the Hearth, G.I. Jake and several other heroes from the Tri-State Area (an event mentioned but not depicted in Episode 37, “Strikeforce Shakespeare”).

2. There’s a hoodlum named “Scar” with an Italian accent in an episode of Green Hornet (“Sales Tax Racket, broadcast October 17, 1939). Falk apparently thinks this is the same guy because of his accent. In fact, there’s a bad guy named “Scar” in an episode of the Lone Ranger. Maybe Scar from the Old West was the great uncle of Scar from Green Hornet’s time?

3. “Ma Roan” was first mentioned in episode 17, “The Long, Dark Night Vision Scope of the Soul.”
https://thisguninmyhand.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-long-dark-night-vision-scope-of.html

Credits:
The opening music was The William Tell Overture Part 4 (Finale), composed by Rossini, performed in 1915 by Victor Symphony Orchestra, under direction of Rosario Bourdon. The closing music was from the public domain film Killer Bait (1949). Music from the "Mac Med" ad was from the public domain film Black Cobra 2 (1989). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

“The curtain falls” and “now we return” clips of narration are from a public domain episode of the Lone Ranger radio show titled “Snake Oil,” broadcast June 13, 1938.

Title: R28-44-Women Screaming and Rapid Talking.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479894/

Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Recorded by Mike Koenig
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Sound Effect Title: HORSE BLOWS FARM AMBIANCE.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ohmypro/sounds/400702/

Sound Effect Title: horse’s whinny
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Kubuzz/sounds/347036/

Sound Effect Title: horse.mp3 (whinny)
By: 3bagbrew
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/3bagbrew/sounds/59569/

Sound Effect Title: Amb Hipica + Renill.wav (whinny)
By CraterZounds
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/CraterZounds/sounds/189282/

Sound Effect Title: G38-15-Perfect Horse Whinny.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437110/

Sound Effect Title: 20060419.horse.neigh.wav
By dobroide
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/18229/

Sound Effect Title: R13-19-Muffled Hooves.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479691/

Sound Effect Title: Horse Galloping.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Max_Headroom/sounds/175356/

Sound Effect Title: Horses.WAV (walking)
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Ornery/sounds/233345/

Sound Effect Title: SFX - Horse - Walk.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/MrFizzywig/sounds/581833/

Sound Effect Title: Egg Timer, Ticking, Ringing
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/468081/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Masked Rider Western magazine (November 1938). Public domain, artist unknown.