Riders Radio Theater

After a bitter mud-slinging, fire-bombing, electrifying campaign, the voters of Tumbleweed City went to the polls and elected a new mayor. It’s night at Tumbleweed City, and the lights are all out with the exception of the courthouse. There the lights burn brightly as the anxious candidates and their loyal supports wait in the lobby while Sheriff Drywall counts ballots behind the closed and locked doors of his office. But the question is… who won?

Election day is drawing near in Tumbleweed City. Slocum has resorted to electrocution, bombing and barn burning to eliminate his opposition, Side Meat, all to no avail. With less than 24 hours until election day, Slocum is growing increasingly desperate. Who will he call on? What will he do? Is this the end of democracy?!

Slocum tricked Gary Morris into playing a benefit show for the evil villain’s mayoral campaign! But after a quick realization and subsequent coldcock to Slocum’s face, Gary Morris took the funds and gave them to Side Meat! It is now a couple hours after the benefit concert. Gary Morris has returned to the real world, the Riders have returned to the famed Triple X Ranch, and Slocum has snuck back to his office at the Dry Gulch Saloon to plot a terrible strategy…

It’s election time in Tumbleweed Valley, and Side Meat is running for mayor against Slocum. Unsurprisingly, Slocum is up to no good, and as Side Meat returns to his campaign headquarters he notice a funny smell… featuring Gary Morris!

Riders In The Sky were on the promotional trail drive for Singing Six Guns until receiving word that Slocum and Charlie are both alive, pardoned for their crimes and returning to Tumbleweed Valley! The Riders quickly dropped their Hollywood lives to head home, and upon their return have discovered an unlikely mayoral race afoot… featuring Roberto Bianco!

Two weeks have passed since the yodel that saved Los Angeles, and in this brief span of time, some amazing things have occurred. Film director Otto finished Singing Six Guns, and the world premiere has already taken place at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The movie is a huge success, and the Riders are sent on a cross-country promotional trail drive! But breaking news from Tumbleweed Valley forces the Riders back home to deal with some unfinished business… featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter!

In the conclusion of our exciting western melodrama, Sidemeat has spotted Slocum and Charlie at the Los Angeles aqueduct! After a losing battle with some toxic waste, our resident villains accidentally melted the concrete dam walls, unleashing Los Angeles’ entire water supply onto the unsuspecting city. Can the Riders make it back in time to save LA? Did Ranger Doug miss his chance at romance with Adrienne Barbeau? Is this the end of Riders In The Sky?!

Don King has offered the Riders the opportunity of a lifetime: singing the national anthem for Bull Mania at the Hollywood Bowl! Unable to refuse the promise of bulls and women, the Riders take a break from filming, leaving Sidemeat to keep an eye on the increasingly suspicious happenings at the Los Angeles reservoir…

The arch-fiend Slocum has revealed his sinister plan to sell bottled water to the citizens of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, a love-struck Ranger Doug is getting nowhere with co-star Adrienne Barbeau on the set of Singing Six Guns. It’s morning, and as the Riders awake for the second day of production, a startling discovery is lurking in the nearby reservoir…

Our intrepid trio is filming the final scene of their singing cowboy movie with film director Otto Von Stroheim. But after a docile herd turns panicked from the whistle of a nearby steak knife factory, the Riders look on in fear as the cattle stampede toward none other than the siren of the silver screen herself, Adrienne Barbeau!

The Riders are preparing to star in the first singing cowboy movie in 40 years! It’s late on the night before production, and as the Riders and all good, peace-loving folks are tucked in their bedrolls deep in slumber, a huge convoy of mysterious tanker trucks approaches the compound and grinds to a stop… featuring Guy Clark!

Riders In The Sky are about to star in a singing cowboy movie, but it’s – spoiler alert! – a front for a big and evil plan! Awaiting further instructions, the villainous snake Slocum receives a phone call from the mysterious Mr. Bigs…

Riders In The Sky are in Hollywood due to a cheesy plot device, and the evil villain Slocum is preparing to make a singing cowboy movie for the mysterious Mr. Bigs. Have Sheriff Drywall and Charlie lost their way in the old pickup truck full of t-shirts? Can the Riders get their herd through the afternoon rush hour? Is this the end of Riders In The Sky?!

Slocum, a villain-turned-film-producer, has just learned in a phone call that he’s to make a singing cowboy movie, but Otto, his cab-driver-turned-Hollywood-director, discovers a major flaw in the plan… featuring Skip Ewing!

Riders In The Sky and a huge herd of cattle are still on their way to Hollywood. Unbeknownst to the Riders, they have been replaced on the benefit show, and Slocum continues his undercover plot as a sleazy, low-budget movie producer… featuring Williams and Ree!