Fair Fugitive: Have Gun, Will Travel (November 15, 1959)

“Fair Fugitive” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 15, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin agrees to transport a fugitive prisoner from Fort Gilman to Baltimore for Captain Sam Jeffers of the Texas Rangers, who is busy dealing with a threatened jail break. When Paladin learns the prisoner is a woman named Magda Salvon whom he knew well years ago in San Francisco, he faces an uncomfortable reunion and the challenge of delivering her safely across dangerous territory.

Texas border region, 1875. The Carlton Hotel in San Francisco at the beginning, then the Texas Rangers post at Company D near the Mexican border, and the journey to Fort Gilman.

Characters: Paladin, Captain Sam Jeffers, Miss Wong, Hey Boy, Magda Salvon

Listen for: Paladin's complicated past with the prisoner Magda Salvon and how their reunion affects his mission to transport her safely while the border region is unstable.

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.