Fabulous Silver Extender: Gunsmoke (June 5, 1960)

“Fabulous Silver Extender” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 5, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Dillon leaves town with a prisoner, and a mysterious professor arrives in Dodge City seeking help. Professor Cranston reveals he's being hunted by a silver syndicate that has hired eight killers to track him down for a ten-thousand-dollar bounty. Meanwhile, a small stranger in the saloon exhibits peculiar behavior, borrowing dimes and repaying them with silver dollars, catching the attention of locals who suspect something suspicious is afoot.

Dodge City, Kansas - the marshal's office, the Long Branch Saloon, and a shop in town

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Miss Kitty, Sam, Professor Albert Cranston, Delmar Wilburton, Gatsby

Listen for: The mystery of the professor's connection to the silver syndicate, the identity and purpose of the mysterious small stranger, and what the machine-like device in the shop represents

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.