Kitty Caught: Gunsmoke (October 16, 1954)

“Kitty Caught” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 16, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Dillon learns from Chester that the Carp brothers, wanted bank robbers, may be headed to Dodge. When Dillon visits the bank to warn Mr. Bakken, the robbers arrive and attempt to hold up the bank. During the confrontation, they take Kitty hostage and escape with her.

Dodge City, Kansas - a saloon and bank in the morning

Characters: Marshal Matt Dillon, Chester, Kitty, Mr. Bakken, The Carp brothers

Listen for: The tense bank holdup scene and the robbers' threat to shoot Kitty if they are followed.

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.