Bone Hunters: Gunsmoke (December 11, 1954)

“Bone Hunters” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 11, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A drunken buffalo hunter named Nolie Meeker stabs Bill Zant in the Long Branch saloon. Marshal Dillon must disarm the violent and intoxicated Meeker and jail him, while Doc Adams fights to save Zant's life. When Zant survives, Dillon questions what started the fight.

Dodge City - the Long Branch saloon, Marshal Dillon's office, and Doc Adams' clinic

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc Adams, Nolie Meeker, Bill Zant, Ezra Marcy

Listen for: A tense confrontation between Marshal Dillon and a drunken, knife-wielding man; the revelation that both men work as bone hunters collecting buffalo remains

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.