Saludos: Gunsmoke (April 14, 1957)

“Saludos” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 14, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A half-breed woman stumbles into Doc's office with a bullet wound, having fled the Choctaw Basin after a white man murdered her husband Walking Deer and shot at her when she tried to escape. Marshal Dillon learns that three men recently passed through the area, and he must round them all up and bring them back to Dodge City so the injured woman can identify which one committed the crime.

Dodge City and the Choctaw Basin in the American West, 1957

Characters: Matt Dillon, Doc, Chester, Kitty, Walking Deer, Ben Taylor, Fager, Steve

Listen for: The challenge of tracking suspects through the remote basin and the tension as Matt questions three strangers to find the murderer

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.