Greater Love: Gunsmoke (April 10, 1954)

“Greater Love” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 10, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

When a stagecoach is robbed and a man killed, Marshal Dillon learns that Howard Brand, a young settler living near Turkey Creek, was involved. Visiting Brand's wife, Dillon finds Howard dying from wounds received during the robbery. Before he can question him, the wounded man expires, but Mrs. Brand reveals that a man named Jed Butler from the Oklahoma territory planned the crime. Doc Adams then mysteriously disappears, and Dillon fears the outlaws may be holding him captive.

Dodge City, Kansas and the surrounding frontier, including Turkey Creek and the boothill cemetery

Characters: Matt Dillon, Doc Adams, Chester, Hank (stagecoach driver), Mrs. Brand, Howard Brand, Jed Butler, Kitty

Listen for: The mystery of Doc's disappearance after receiving a mysterious message at the saloon, and whether Jed Butler and his associate have kidnapped the doctor to treat their wounds from the failed robbery.

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.