What happens
US Marshal Matt Dillon investigates the death of Ethan Ryder in Dodge City, an episode of the CBS Radio series Gunsmoke first broadcast on August 23, 1959. William Conrad plays Matt Dillon, with Parley Baer, Howard McNear and Sam Edwards in the cast. Ethan's wife Maggie tells Matt that her husband threatens her and that he has accused her of wrongdoing. Ethan, meanwhile, has bought a gun and drinks in the saloon, where a young drifter named Boop Ryder has also been drawn into the trouble between the two. Matt pieces together the rivalries and suspicions surrounding the household as the situation grows more dangerous.
Dodge City, on the frontier in the American West
Characters: Matt Dillon, Maggie Ryder, Ethan Ryder, Doc Adams, Kitty, Boop
Listen for: Matt Dillon's questioning of Maggie and the tense exchanges in the saloon as Ethan's suspicions grow
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.