Doc's Showdown: Gunsmoke (October 12, 1958)

“Doc's Showdown” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 12, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A young man named Lemmy is brought home mortally wounded and dies before revealing who shot him. Doc Adams tends to the boy and learns from his mother that Lemmy had decided to leave some kind of trouble behind. As Doc pieces together what happened, he begins spreading word around town that he knows who the killer is, drawing unwanted attention.

Dodge City, Kansas Territory in the Old West

Characters: Matt Dillon, Doc Adams, Sarah (Lemmy's mother), Chester, Kitty

Listen for: Doc's dangerous decision to let it be known he has information about the killing, and the consequences of his actions.

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.