Kitty's Killing: Gunsmoke (February 2, 1958)

“Kitty's Killing” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 2, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Matt Dillon encounters Jacob Leech, a fanatical man bent on killing Ollie Radford, a rancher whose first wife died in childbirth years ago in Missouri. Leech believes Radford is responsible for her death and has come to Dodge City seeking vengeance. When Leech arrives in town, Kitty intercepts him at the saloon and offers to guide him to Radford, but leads him instead to an empty boarding house, where a violent confrontation erupts in the darkness.

Dodge City, Kansas, at the Long Branch Saloon, Ma's boarding house, and the streets of town

Characters: Matt Dillon, Kitty, Jacob Leech, Ollie Radford, Doc, Chester

Listen for: The tense confrontation between the fanatical Jacob Leech and Kitty in the darkened boarding house, where she uses her wits and a gun to defend herself against his murderous rage.

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.