Tom Mix and his Ralston Straight Shooters was the major rival of Jack Armstrong - The All American Boy, and began airing on NBC on September 25th 1933, for 15 minutes three times a week. 

Although he never appeared in it, the series was based on Tom Mix - a real cowboy and Hollywood screen star whose life had been so glorified through Hollywood publicity that he had become the ideal hero - along with his wonder horse, Tony, who was already famous from the movies. 

All of the stories were set around Tom's ranch, the TM-Bar in the Texas country, where Tom lived with his elderly sidekick - the Old Wrangler - and his two young wards, Jimmy and Jane.

Many of the older episodes have been lost, but old time radio aficionado Jim Harmon not only wrote about the Golden Age of Radio, he also wrote, produced and appeared in a radio revival of the Tom Mix radio series during the early 1980s and some of his recreations are included below.