Line Trouble: Gunsmoke (June 26, 1960)

“Line Trouble” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 26, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Matt Dillon investigates trouble on a new telegraph line running west of Dodge City. When a man reports seeing an Indian prisoner being held by two men near the line, suspicion falls on Small Hawk, a local Indian who was recently released from jail, especially after the telegraph wire is discovered cut.

Dodge City and the surrounding territory west of town, including a new telegraph line

Characters: Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal, Kitty, Chester, Doc, Small Hawk, Jasper Foss, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Bradford Farr

Listen for: The investigation into who cut the telegraph line and whether Small Hawk is truly responsible, as tensions rise over Indian trouble and a man's desire to prove himself after being let go from his job.

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.