Kitty's Good Neighboring: Gunsmoke (December 4, 1960)

“Kitty's Good Neighboring” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 4, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

When Nettie, a woman living on the prairie, falls ill, Kitty volunteers to stay at her homestead to care for her. Nettie's husband Luke returns unexpectedly and creates tension over Kitty's presence, forcing an uncomfortable situation between the three of them.

Dodge City and the surrounding prairie territory in the American West

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc, Kitty, Nettie, Luke

Listen for: A story about neighborly kindness tested by a husband's jealousy and the harsh realities of frontier life and marriage

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.