Meeting the Terms of a Contract
Sergeant Preston and King uncover a scheme built around stolen furs and step in before honest trappers are ruined by the fraud.
Challenge of the Yukon followed Sergeant Preston and his dog King through adventures in the Canadian Northwest. The long-running series began in 1939 and was renamed Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in 1950. Golden Radio Hour preserves 627 recordings, including the later era associated with Brace Beemer.
Northern adventure centered on Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant William Preston and his dog Yukon King. The program began as a WXYZ regional serial/adventure, expanded to ABC in 1947, moved to Mutual in 1950, and was renamed Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in November 1951.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: WXYZ local/regional era (February 3, 1938 to May 28, 1947) on WXYZ, ABC network era (June 12, 1947 to December 30, 1949) on ABC Radio Network, Mutual Challenge of the Yukon era (January 2, 1950 to November 11, 1951) on Mutual Broadcasting System, and Mutual Sergeant Preston era (November 13, 1951 to 1954) on Mutual Broadcasting System.
Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include Jay Michael (announcer and performer), Paul Sutton (performer), George W. Trendle (producer, creator, and performer), Fred Flowerday (director and performer), Fran Striker (editor, writer, and performer), Charles D. Livingstone (performer, director, and editor), and Mildred Merrill (writer and announcer).
Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to ABC Radio Network, WXYZ, Michigan Radio Network, and Mutual Broadcasting System.
The stories often return to Murder and violent crime, Gold mining and prospecting, Working dogs, Robbery and theft, Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Mounties, and Mining claims and property disputes.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Mountie and northern-frontier adventure in American popular radio, Breakfast-cereal sponsorship and youth premiums, and Sergeant Preston across the radio-to-television transition.
If you are following the same actors and creative circles, related programs worth opening next include The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Lux Radio Theatre, CBS Radio Workshop, and Fibber McGee and Molly.
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Sergeant Preston and King uncover a scheme built around stolen furs and step in before honest trappers are ruined by the fraud.
A fur robbery develops into a murder case, and Preston sets a calculated trap to expose the men responsible.
Preston helps an elderly miner and his wife turn the tables on the crook who sold them a worthless gold claim.
Preston investigates Matt Lawson's murder after the available evidence points toward Lawson's friend, Big Ben Barton.
After a prospector is found murdered, Preston and King follow the trail of clues toward the killer.
Preston and King discover that a Yukon freight operation is serving as cover for a gang that has been stealing furs.
While pursuing a trio of bank robbers, Preston uses a bluff about poisoned water to turn the criminals' own predicament against them.
Criminals kidnap King in an attempt to force a prisoner's release, leaving Preston to outmaneuver them and recover his dog.
A miner's murder appears to implicate an innocent man, and Preston and King work to uncover what really happened.
Preston uses a carefully staged ruse, with King's help, to bring a gang of fur thieves to justice.
Preston looks into a suspicious mining accident and finds it connected to a greedy suitor's effort to gain control of a valuable claim.
A strange tale of a moving lantern draws Preston into an investigation that reveals a concealed connection to murder and robbery.
Preston and King track two killers who ambushed and robbed a man carrying gold dust.
A bold bank robbery in Blackhawk leads Preston into a case involving deception and embezzlement.
Preston and King uncover a scheme aimed at stealing the fortune left behind by a dead miner.
Preston lays a trap for a corrupt banker whose crimes are tied to gold robberies and attempts on other men's lives.
When a prospector is killed for his gold, Preston and King pursue the murderer through the Yukon.
Preston and King investigate a prospector's suspicious death along with the disappearance of his gold fortune.
A killing connected to a poker game leaves the circumstances in doubt, and Preston sets a trap to determine whether it was self-defense or murder.
A shooting at a cafe and a sudden offer to buy the establishment lead Preston and King toward a larger scheme.
Preston uses a ruse involving King to expose the organizer behind a string of Yukon bank robberies.
Preston tries to solve the murder of an old prospector while a suspicious will adds another complication to the case.
An audition recording of “Murder in ABC’s” in which Boss Connor tries to seize trapper Bixby’s furs and traps Bixby, his daughter, Sergeant Preston, and Yukon King inside a small…
After a bank robbery and a double-crossing murder, Preston and King track the fleeing robber through the Yukon.
Preston races to prevent a revenge killing while uncovering the truth behind a stolen emerald.
Preston investigates a killing and a forged deed involving a prospector's greedy son and an accomplice.
Preston and King work to clear an innocent man accused of murder while identifying the real killers behind a gold-rush crime.
Preston tries to protect a family driven into the wilderness while stopping a gang intent on stealing essential winter supplies.
Preston and King pursue the killer of a writer through the dangerous Yukon wilderness.
Preston helps a young woman travel through the Yukon in search of the man she loves after he fled under a false accusation of theft.
A peculiar encounter involving King and a stuffed animal gives Preston a lead in a series of murders along the trail.
Preston and King uncover a family betrayal tied to a plot that includes an attempted murder.
Preston and King race to save a local trader caught in a deadly wolf trap and expose the scheme behind his predicament.
A storied family diamond draws Preston and King into a case of treachery and danger in the Yukon.
Preston and King confront notorious con man Soapy Smith as his lawless operation threatens the gold-rush town of Skagway.
Preston and King track two escaped criminals while also trying to reach a stranded corporal in the Yukon wilderness.
A decades-old secret and a deadly scheme lead Preston and King into an effort to save a young woman's long-missing father.
Preston and King investigate a murder and robbery, with an unusual clue detectable to King helping point the way.
A charitable plan to place food caches along Yukon trails turns dangerous after sabotage and a cabin fire, sending Preston and King after the culprit.
Preston and King pursue an outlaw gang that has been terrorizing the Yukon.
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