Bull: Gunsmoke (November 3, 1957)

“Bull” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 3, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A buffalo hunter named Bull Hogan comes to town and gets into a fistfight with a man named Frank Wilkins over a woman at the Long Branch Saloon. The fight turns deadly when Bull beats Frank to death, and Marshal Dillon must investigate what witnesses claim was just a fair fight.

Dodge City - the Long Branch Saloon and surrounding town

Characters: Marshal Matt Dillon, Bull Hogan, Frank Wilkins, Miss Kitty, Doc

Listen for: A brutal saloon brawl that goes too far, and the mystery of whether a fair fight became murder.

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.