Smoking Out the Beedles: Gunsmoke (November 6, 1954)

“Smoking Out the Beedles” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 6, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Dillon is confronted with a land dispute when Pat Clay arrives with a court order demanding that Jim Beatle vacate a house and land that Clay claims to own. Beatle insists he purchased the property from Clay for sixty dollars and intends to farm it, but Clay now denies ever selling it to him. Dillon must unravel the truth behind the conflicting claims and decide how to enforce the law.

Dodge City and the surrounding territory, including a remote homestead at Stone Point

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester Proff, Pat Clay, Jim Beatle, Mrs. Beatle

Listen for: A dispute over land ownership, conflicting stories about a property sale, and the question of whether Jim Beatle has any legal claim to the land he occupies

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.