Hickock: Gunsmoke (July 25, 1953)

“Hickock” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 25, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Dodge City with a witness, Sam Trimble, to identify two gunmen named Peters and Gridley for a murder committed in Abilene. Marshal Dillon must keep the dangerous pair in town and under watch while Hickok prepares to take them back for trial, but the situation grows tense when Trimble's presence is revealed.

Dodge City, Kansas, and surrounding frontier towns in the 1870s

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Wild Bill Hickok, Peters, Gridley, Sam Trimble, Doc, Kitty

Listen for: The tension between Dillon's attempt to maintain order without provoking violence, Hickok's determination to see the murderers hanged, and the danger posed by Trimble's presence as an eyewitness

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.