Kitty Lost: Gunsmoke (December 25, 1954)

“Kitty Lost” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 25, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Dillon discovers that Kitty has missed three appointments in a single day—with Doc, Chester, and Sam at the Long Branch—which is completely unlike her. Sam reports seeing Kitty leave with a mysterious well-dressed stranger from the East named Rachmill around ten o'clock the previous night, and she never returned. Dillon begins investigating the disappearance.

Dodge City: the marshal's office, the street, the Long Branch Saloon, and the Dodge House hotel

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc, Kitty, Sam Noonan, Rachmill, Toby

Listen for: A tense mystery unfolding as Dillon questions everyone about Kitty's whereabouts and learns of the mysterious Easterner who was last seen with her.

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.