Brother Lost: Have Gun, Will Travel (November 8, 1959)

“Brother Lost” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 8, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin escorts a young woman named Marietta Fulton to Hila Bend to find her brother, from whom she was separated years ago. When outlaws ambush their stagecoach, they kidnap Marietta and shoot Paladin, leaving him wounded and desperate to rescue her before the outlaws disappear into the frontier.

San Francisco and Hila Bend, California, 1875. A stagecoach route and a doctor's office in a frontier town.

Characters: Paladin, Marietta Fulton, Dr. Jonas, Sheriff Tom Honshoo, Outlaws (Duke, Ferdy, Keith)

Listen for: The tense stagecoach holdup, the outlaws' violent threats, and Paladin's determination despite his wound to save the kidnapped young woman.

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.