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Bobby Benson's Adventures
Imagine...being a mere 12 years old and owning
your own Texas ranch. There'd be no limit to the adventures you could have, and
no end to the number of whooping, hootin' and hollerin' cowpoke friends you
could make. Some life!
Well, that's just the life orphan/ranch-heir Bobby Benson had when he galloped
onto the radio scene on CBS in 1932. Sponsored initially by Hecker's Oats,
Bobby's ranch o' fun was called the H-Bar-O. This name changed to the B-Bar-B
when Hecker's dropped sponsorship, where it continued for a short while before
being revived, under the Mutual network, as Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B
Riders in 1949. This second revival solidified Bobby as a radio hit -
and he ran until 1955, outlasting the majority of dramatic kid's radio shows.
But did you know that Bobby's lasso-swingin' horse-rustlin' world was created by
radio director, writer, producer and actor Herbert C. Rice - an Englishman
living, of all places, in Buffalo?
The program debuted, with 11-year old Richard Wanamaker in the title role, to
astounding success. His enviable adventures, coupled with premiums such as code
books, badges, buttons, photos and more, had kids going absolutely wild for
their Western boy-hero. After the first season ended, the show's popularity
demanded that it move to New York City - and Wanamaker was replaced by Dead-End
Kid Billy Halop. In fact, Halop's sister even won the role of Bobby's best
cowgal pal Polly. New characters were added, older ones were phased out, and
Halop became a star. The show lasted until 1936, but little did anyone know
that, more than a decade later, it would be making a huge comeback.
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Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders and the Lost Herd (1936) was a radio giveaway by the Hecker-H.O. Company. Story by Peter Dixon. Art by Glen Thomas. 92 pages (22 pages of color comics and rest in novel form with B&W illustrations), 5-in. x 8-in.
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