092- The Pistol: Escape (January 3, 1950)

“092- The Pistol” is an episode of Escape, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 3, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jonathan Storm arrives at Rawhide Flats, a California gold camp, after losing a bid for a pistol in Sacramento to a red-haired singer, Teresa Blake. He learns that his brother Dave has been killed and that Bart Mallory now claims his brother's Boston pocket claim. Jonathan confronts Mallory, who runs a saloon where his gunmen keep watch, and gambles to get the pistol. The episode is from the Escape series, first aired on January 3, 1950, and the cast is named at the close of the program: Gerald Moore as Jonathan Storm, Betty Lou Gerson as Teresa Blake, Charlie McGraw as Bart Mallory, and Will Gere as Dan Rivers.

Rawhide Flats, a boomtown gold camp in California, shortly after the gold rush

Characters: Jonathan Storm, Teresa Blake, Bart Mallory, Dan Rivers, Dave Storm

Listen for: Jonathan's card wager with Mallory over the pistol and Teresa's changing loyalties in the saloon

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.