Newsma'am: Gunsmoke (October 23, 1960)

“Newsma'am” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 23, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A woman journalist named Phoebe Applebee arrives in Dodge City dressed in men's clothes after stowing away on a cattle drive. She claims she's come to write an authentic account of the West, but Marshal Dillon locks her up for disturbing the peace when she refuses to leave the cattle train. Now Dillon must decide what to do with this determined but unwelcome observer.

Dodge City in the Kansas Territory, a cattle drive, and the marshal's office

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Phoebe Applebee, Trail boss

Listen for: A spirited confrontation between Marshal Dillon and a woman journalist determined to experience the real West, plus his deputy Chester's amusement at the situation

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.