Product: The Roy Rogers Show, Volume 3, including 4 TV shows: Train Robbery, Ride in the Death Wagon, Shoot to Kill (AKA Pat Brady: Outlaw), Ranch War (1952)
Rating: 4.0
Excellent Western Adventures
Both the opening and closing themes of this classic TV show help to establish the boundaries for an excellent audio/visual Western adventure. All four episodes are built around a formula, but it's a workable, proven formula. The plots are well developed for the alloted time and the characters are comfortably predictable.In "The Train Robbery" Roy discovers that a local merchant is working with the robbers to take the $50,000 loot. He successfully uncovers the villans and saves the town. In "Ride in the Death Wagon" Roy escapes a sinister plot and keeps a widow from being taken advantage of. In "Shoot to Kill" an eastern city slicker is caught up in trying to deceive people with his photos, pretending that Pat Brady is an outlaw, but the tables are turned on him. And in "Ranch War" Roy saves the day for a young couple in preventing greedy men from taking the family ranch.