Dressed to Kill: Have Gun, Will Travel (May 1, 1960)

“Dressed to Kill” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 1, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

While delivering a payroll shipment to a railroad construction crew, Paladin rescues a well-dressed young man named Henry Matthews Jr. from an alley mugging in the rough town of Terminal. Matthews insists on repaying Paladin's kindness by inviting him to supper at his family's private railway coach, where Paladin meets Matthews' father, the railroad president, and his sister Alice, who is decidedly less welcoming than her brother.

Terminal, a dirty frontier town near a railroad construction camp, and the Matthews family's private railway coach, 1875

Characters: Paladin, Henry Matthews Jr., Alice Matthews, Mr. Matthews (senior), Hey Boy

Listen for: Paladin's growing suspicions about the two men who attacked Matthews and why they might be watching the Matthews family and his valuable cargo

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.