Sears Radio Theater - "The Afro - Westerner" (Old Time Radio, 1979)

Sears Radio Theater | Old Time Radio · Aug 30, 2026 · 50m

Sears Radio Theater presents “The Afro-Westerner,” episode 16, originally broadcast February 26, 1979. This CBS Radio Western Night drama was sponsored by Sears, Roebuck and Co., with Lorne Greene as host.Set in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1875, the story follows a young man from Liberia who journeys to the frontier town to learn about the lives his formerly enslaved grandparents once led there. Brock Peters stars, with a script by Odie Hawkins and direction by Elliott Lewis.Sears Radio Theater presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing…