Finn Alley: Have Gun, Will Travel (August 9, 1959)

“Finn Alley” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 9, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin is asked to help find Miss Wong, a young Chinese girl who disappeared from the Carlton Hotel after being given a package to deliver by a mysterious woman in black. Paladin traces the girl to Mammy King, a woman who traffics in servant girls, and learns that Miss Wong has been taken to a boarding house on Finn Alley in the waterfront district, where she faces an uncertain fate.

San Francisco in 1875, primarily at the Carlton Hotel and the waterfront district known as Finn Alley

Characters: Paladin, Hey Boy, Miss Wong, Linda, Mammy King

Listen for: A tense investigation into the criminal underworld of San Francisco's waterfront, where young women are trafficked and sold into servitude; Paladin's confrontation with Mammy King and his discovery of Miss Wong's location.

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.