Mark Trail

Mark Trail was a Sunday comics section feature by Ed Dodd , where Trail was a pipe-smoking, dark haired forest ranger who loved nature and told of its wonders. The strip showed kids the tracks of animals, and what they did in the winter when there was no food and was a great way for city kids to learn something about the big woods.

Of course, as brought to radio on Mutual by Kellogg's Pep cereal, all that quiet woodsy stuff like animal tracks wouldn't work, so the Mark Trail of radio was more along the lines of Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Director Drexel Hines made action-hero Mark into a forest ranger who prowled the wilderness ready to stop baddies while teaching his pals Scotty and Cherry about nature, all wrapped up in an exciting, action-packed old time radio show. Three actors played Mark through its run: Matt Crowlye, John Larkin, and Staats Cotsworth.

Mark Trail's adventures were good, intelligent fun for the kids, and probably gave many future nature lovers one of their first chances to get excited about wild America. The show's beginning is a great example of taking a mild-mannered forest ranger and taking his job "over the top" with Mark Trail's "Battling the raging elements! Fighting the savage wilderness! Striking at the enemies of man and nature!"

The following is a listing of the shows that will be played on WELF-NPC Radio. Each week we will feature a new show from the list under the heading of show listed above. We will continue to rotate through this list until we remove the show from the radio station.

Show Title	Originally Aired
Mystery of Satin's Glade lastEp	N/A
Lumber King of Timber Mark Trail 01 (alt)	01/30/1950
Lumber King of Timber Mark Trail 01	01/30/1950
Polluted Waters-Floating Death 02	02/01/1950
Satan and the Devil's Heard 03	02/03/1950
Chief Lightfoot and the Buffalo 04	02/06/1950
Whisperfoot-Sheepkiller 08	02/15/1950
Wildlife Acres 15	03/03/1950
Vampires from the Deep 16	03/06/1950
Killer That Strikes from the Sky 17	03/08/1950
Rapids of No Return 19	03/17/1950
Rabid Foxes 22	03/20/1950
Eyeglass Monster 23	03/22/1950
Deluge 24	03/24/1950
Terror of Big Horn 25	03/27/1950
Coyotes of the Sky 28	04/03/1950
Miracle of Junction Valley 35	04/19/1950
Thumping Beaver 37	04/24/1950
Guardians of Tepee Rock 38	04/26/1950
Mystery of the Missing Deer 44	05/10/1950
Snake Hill Survey 46	05/15/1950
Claws of the Killer Bear 47	05/17/1950
White Camel	09/22/1950
Purse Strings of Danger	09/25/1950
Highway of Terror	10/06/1950
Monster of the Gulf	10/09/1950
Forty-Year Freeze	10/11/1950
Witch of Lost Forest	10/13/1950
Strange Invitation of Death	10/16/1950
Wings of the Vampire	10/18/1950
Killers of Lost Forest	10/20/1950
Sticks of Fear	10/23/1950
Silver Sky	10/25/1950
Avenging Arrow	10/27/1950
Snowy Owl Bounty	10/03/1951
Operation Eager Beaver	10/05/1951