Dusty: Have Gun, Will Travel (May 22, 1960)

“Dusty” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 22, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dusty, a young boy, arrives at Paladin's San Francisco hotel with his life savings to hire the gunfighter. He wants Paladin to stop his Uncle Muncie and a man named Jeter from shooting Dusty's dog, Mr. Big. Paladin agrees to ride back to Uncle Muncie's ranch to intervene.

San Francisco in 1875 and Uncle Muncie's remote ranch property

Characters: Paladin, Dusty, Uncle Muncie, Jeter, Mr. Big (a dog), The Thompsons (neighbors)

Listen for: A tense confrontation between Paladin and the abusive Uncle Muncie over the fate of Dusty and his dog; Dusty's story of how he found Mr. Big and why his uncle wants him dead.

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.