Death Valley Days is an American

United States

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 radio

Old-time radio

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 and television

Television

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 anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West

American Old West

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, particularly the Death Valley

Death Valley

Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it features the lowest, driest, and hottest locations in North America. Badwater, a basin located in Death Valley, is the specific location of the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below...

 area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945. It continued from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television series

Television syndication

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. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company

Pacific Coast Borax Company

The Pacific Coast Borax Company was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis "Borax" Smith, the "Borax King".-History:...

 (20 Mule Team Borax

Twenty-Mule-Team Borax

20 Mule Team Borax is a brand of cleaner manufactured by the U.S. soap firm Dial Corporation. The product is named after the 20-mule teams that were used by William Tell Coleman's company to move borax out of Death Valley, California, to the nearest rail spur between 1883 and 1889.Mule teams were...

, Boraxo

Boraxo

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).
The 558 television episodes were introduced by a host

Presenter

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. The longest-running was "The Old Ranger" from 1952 to 1965, played by Stanley Andrews

Stanley Andrews

Stanley Andrews was an American actor perhaps best known as the voice of Daddy Warbucks on the radio program Little Orphan Annie and later as "The Old Ranger", the host of Death Valley Days.-Early life:...

 when the series was produced by McGowan Productions, producer of the Sky King

Sky King

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television series.