The Bobsy Twins: Gunsmoke (February 1, 1959)

“The Bobsy Twins” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 1, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Dillon investigates a series of murders on the prairie—a pioneer family and a drifter—with no clear motive. Two twin brothers arrive in Dodge City claiming to be on a mission to hunt Indians, but their presence and strange behavior soon connect them to the killings.

Dodge City and the surrounding prairie in Kansas Territory

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc, Kitty, Harvey Cinney, Merrell Cinney, Moss' Jimmy, Bud Grant

Listen for: The twins' peculiar logic about killing on the Sabbath, their obsession with Indian hunting after reading about it in a book, and Matt Dillon's clever interrogation technique that gets them to confess.

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.