Editing Red Ryder (section)

==In other media==
=== Radio ===
{{Main article|Red Ryder (radio series)}}
The ''Red Ryder'' radio series began February 3, 1942, on the [[Blue Network]].<ref name="coxotd">Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-3848-8}}.</ref>  broadcast three times a week at 7:30&nbsp;pm Pacific time. When the Blue also acquired ''[[The Lone Ranger]]'' from the [[Mutual Broadcasting System]], Mutual decided to compete by airing ''Red Ryder'' in the same period. Thus, ''Red Ryder'' aired on the East Coast that year from May 20 to September 9 on Mutual. The series beat ''The Lone Ranger'' in the [[Hooper ratings]], but the success was short-lived. ''Red Ryder'' was sold to a regional sponsor, [[Langendorf Bread]], and after four months was no longer heard in the East.

Mutual and Langendorf continued the series on the West Coast [[Don Lee (broadcaster)|Don Lee Network]] through the 1940s at 7:30&nbsp;pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, always with the familiar organ theme, "The Dying Cowboy" ("[[Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie]]"). Announcers on the show included [[Ben Alexander (actor)|Ben Alexander]] and [[Art Gilmore]].

The continuing characters of the comic strip were also found in the radio series, produced by Brad Brown with writer-director Paul Franklin and writer Albert Van Antwerp. [[Reed Hadley]] portrayed Red Ryder on the radio from 1942 to 1944, followed by Carlton KaDell (1945), and Brooke Temple (1946–51). [[Arthur Q. Bryan]] had the role of Roland "Rawhide" Rolinson, and Red's sidekick Buckskin was played by Horace Murphy. Jim Mather provided Indian voices.

Numerous actors played Little Beaver, including members of the Hopi, Jicarilla Apache, Southern Ute, and Navajo Nations. One of the most notable was [[Robert Blake (actor)|Robert Blake]] (on credits as Bobby Blake), Tommy Cook (1942 on), [[Frank Bresee]] (1942–46, alternating with Cook), Henry Blair (1944–47), [[John Wilder (producer)|Johnny McGovern]] (1947–50), and Sammy Ogg (1950–51). During the same mid-1940s time frame, Henry Blair also portrayed [[Ricky Nelson]] on ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]''.

Billed as "America's famous fighting cowboy," Red Ryder was notable because he did not kill his enemies but instead aimed for their guns to disarm them. Such sound effects were handled by James Dick, Monty Fraser, and Bob Turnbull.

===Films and television===
Red Ryder appeared in a 1940 12-chapter serial, followed by a series of 27 movies (the last four of which were in color). It began in 1940 with the 12-chapter Republic [[movie serial]] ''[[The Adventures of Red Ryder]]'', played by [[Don "Red" Barry]], who got his nickname "Red" from the role and [[Tommy Cook (actor)|Tommy Cook]] as Red Ryder's young Indian sidekick Little Beaver. Subsequently, [[Wild Bill Elliott]] and [[Allan "Rocky" Lane]] portrayed Red Ryder in several films, both working with [[Robert Blake (actor)|Robert Blake]] as Little Beaver. The last four Red Ryder movies starred [[Jim Bannon]] as Red Ryder and [[Don Kay Reynolds|Don Kay ("Little Brown Jug") Reynolds]]  as Little Beaver. Both Bannon and Lane filmed pilots for a ''Red Ryder'' television series, created by Stephen Slesinger, but neither version was picked up by a network. Both pilots survive and appear in various western DVD collections. An episode of Gunsmoke entitled "I Call Him Wonder" was produced in 1963 as a [[backdoor pilot]] for a new Red Ryder and Little Beaver TV Show.<ref>Gunsmoke season 8 episode 28</ref>

====Republic Pictures====
[[Image:Broncpeeler.png|right|350px|thumb|Fred Harman's ''Bronc Peeler'' (November 4, 1934)]]
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* ''[[Adventures of Red Ryder|The Adventures of Red Ryder]]'' (1940) ([[film serial]])
* ''[[Tucson Raiders]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Marshal of Reno]]'' (1944)
* ''[[The San Antonio Kid]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Cheyenne Wildcat]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Vigilantes of Dodge City]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Sheriff of Las Vegas]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Great Stagecoach Robbery]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Lone Texas Ranger]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Phantom of the Plains]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Marshal of Laredo]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Colorado Pioneers]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Wagon Wheels Westward]]'' (1945)
* ''[[California Gold Rush (film)|California Gold Rush]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Sheriff of Redwood Valley]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Sun Valley Cyclone]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Conquest of Cheyenne]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Santa Fe Uprising]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Stagecoach to Denver]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Vigilantes of Boomtown]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Homesteaders of Paradise Valley]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Oregon Trail Scouts]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Rustlers of Devil's Canyon]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Marshal of Cripple Creek]]'' (1947)
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====Eagle-Lion Films====
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* ''[[Ride, Ryder, Ride!]]'' (1949)
* ''[[Roll, Thunder, Roll!]]'' (1949)
* ''[[The Fighting Redhead]]'' (1950)
* ''The Cowboy and the Prizefighter'' (1950)
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====Telecomics Films====
Stephen Slesinger's [[Telecomics|Telecomics Presents]]
produced three television pilots from 1949-1952.

The pilots were filmed on The Little Beaver and Red
Ryder Ranches, in Colorado's Blanco Basin, near
[[Pagosa Springs, Colorado|Pagosa Springs]]. The Little Beaver Ranch was
built, by Slesinger, to resemble a Western
Town. Guests stayed in cabins with facades such
as The Court House, Saloon, and Jail.

To film a cut-away Cattle Stampede, 
Slesinger paid local ranchers fifty cents, 
for each pound their stock lost, as a result of 
running in the stampede.

In summers Fred Harman's Red Ryder Ranch and 
Stephen Slesinger's Little Beaver Ranch hosted 
settlement house boys and other youth. 
In July 2020 The Red Ryder Cowboy Honor Club celebrates 
the 80th Anniversary of these outdoor youth programs.
2020 is also the 70th Anniversary year, of the Red Ryder 
Roundup Rodeo and July Fourth Celebration, in Pagosa Springs.

====''Gunsmoke'' episode====
''[[Gunsmoke]]'''s 1963 TV Episode 
"I Call Him Wonder" was an authorized
test for a New Red Ryder TV series that
was not picked up. It features Little Beaver
as Wonder, and is adapted from the original
story of how Red Ryder and Little Beaver
first met.
Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc., retains the
copyright and trademark rights to the Red Ryder characters, names, art, and stories.