Unloaded Gun: Gunsmoke (March 13, 1960)

“Unloaded Gun” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 13, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Matt Dillon returns to Dodge City fevered and exhausted from a four-day ride, so worn out that he collapses without even removing his boots. While he sleeps, Chester cleans the marshal's muddy gun belt but forgets to reload it. Meanwhile, Joe Lime arrives in town seeking revenge for his brother Red, whom Matt killed, and tracks the marshal down with murder on his mind.

Dodge City - the marshal's office, the saloon, and the livery stable

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc, Kitty, Joe Lime, Sam

Listen for: The tense confrontation between Matt and Joe Lime at the stable, and the revelation of Chester's crucial mistake with the gun.

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.