Sweet and Sour: Gunsmoke (August 5, 1956)

“Sweet and Sour” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 5, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Matt Dillon breaks up a confrontation at the train station when a drunk man named Ab Lassett harasses a young woman named Rayna. Dillon disarms Lassett and puts him on the train to Dodge City. When Lassett and his partner Joe Garrett arrive in Dodge ahead of Dillon, tensions simmer as Lassett vows revenge for the humiliation.

A train station and the town of Dodge City, Kansas

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Rayna, Ab Lassett, Joe Garrett

Listen for: The initial confrontation between Dillon and the aggressive drunk at the station, and Lassett's arrival in Dodge with threats of retaliation.

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.