Where'd They Go: Gunsmoke (December 29, 1957)

“Where'd They Go” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 29, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Matt Dillon investigates a robbery at Wilbur Jonas's general store, where a masked man tied Jonas up and fled with $68. Jonas names homesteader Clint Doty as the robber, and Dillon takes Doty into custody despite the approaching blizzard. Stranded together on the trail, the two men shelter at Doty's cabin, where his wife Medora is near her time. Gunsmoke, a CBS Radio western with William Conrad as Dillon, first aired on December 29, 1957. The episode centers on Dillon and Doty and the difficult journey through the snow.

Dodge City and the snowbound river bottoms near Dodge, during a winter blizzard

Characters: Matt Dillon, Clint Doty, Medora Doty, Wilbur Jonas, Doc Adams, Kitty Russell, Chester

Listen for: The robbery victim's identification of Clint Doty and Doc's account of Doty's whereabouts that night

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.