Jealousy: Gunsmoke (June 4, 1955)

“Jealousy” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 4, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Matt Dillon breaks up a knife fight between gambler Jack Davis and drifter Lonnie Pike over a card game at the Long Branch. Pike's hand is badly wounded, and he swears vengeance before leaving town. Weeks later, an old gambler friend named Cam Durban arrives in Dodge with his wife Tilde to run an honest pharaoh game. When Pike shows up desperate for work, Cam offers him a job as a dealer in his off hours.

Dodge City, Kansas—the Long Branch saloon and Marshal Dillon's office

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Jack Davis, Lonnie Pike, Cam Durban, Tilde Durban, Kitty

Listen for: The tense card game confrontation and Pike's vengeful threats; Cam Durban's arrival and his decision to give Pike a second chance despite the Marshal's reservations.

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.