Kitty Caught: Gunsmoke (July 21, 1957)

“Kitty Caught” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 21, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Matt Dillon learns that the dangerous Carp brothers, bank robbers from Colorado territory, are heading toward Dodge City. When the brothers rob the town bank and take Kitty hostage to ensure their escape, Dillon must pursue them carefully, knowing that any sign of pursuit could result in Kitty's death.

Dodge City and the Kansas prairie, 1957

Characters: Matt Dillon, Kitty, Doc, Chester, Mr. Botkin, Joe Carp

Listen for: The tense hostage situation at the bank and Dillon's difficult pursuit of the outlaws across the prairie

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.