Doc Holiday: Gunsmoke (July 19, 1952)

“Doc Holiday” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 19, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Doc Holiday arrives in Dodge City on his way to Arizona, and Marshal Dillon finds himself caught between the gunslinger and Big Jack Finley, a powerful local rancher whose spoiled son Thorne has been causing trouble. When Doc takes Thorne's side against him in a confrontation, Big Jack threatens to force the marshal out of town unless Doc leaves Dodge.

Dodge City, Kansas, and surrounding territory

Characters: Marshal Matt Dillon, Doc Holiday, Thorne Finley, Big Jack Finley, Chester

Listen for: Doc Holiday's plans to head to Arizona for his health, the tension between the marshal's duty to uphold the law and Big Jack Finley's attempts to control the town, hints of a mysterious death in Finley's past

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.