Caesar's Wife: Have Gun, Will Travel (March 20, 1960)

“Caesar's Wife” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 20, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin is hired by Jeremiah Smoot, a reformed gunslinger who has promised his wife Polly never to use his guns again, to protect him from his neighbor Ezra Mason. Jeremiah suspects Mason of improper intentions toward Polly and fears he may be forced to break his vow to defend his wife's honor.

1875 San Francisco and the Salinas Valley region, including Jeremiah's hacienda and Ezra Mason's property

Characters: Paladin, Jeremiah Smoot, Polly Smoot, Ezra Mason, Miss Wong

Listen for: The tension between Jeremiah's promise to his delicate, nocturnal wife and his suspicions about Mason's visits; Paladin's investigation of the neighbor's intentions.

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.