From Here to Boston: Have Gun, Will Travel (November 27, 1960)

“From Here to Boston” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 27, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin meets Lavinia Todd Hunter, a charming visitor from Boston who has come to San Francisco with her brother Miles. As Paladin and Lavinia grow close over several days, Miles reveals to his sister that they have come west to kill Paladin and claim an inheritance from a lawyer back in Boston. They devise a plan to poison him with brandy during an intimate dinner in his room.

San Francisco, 1875, at the Carlton Hotel

Characters: Paladin, Lavinia Todd Hunter, Miles Todd Hunter, Hay Boy

Listen for: A sinister plot unfolds as the charming visitors from Boston befriend the famous gunslinger, with murder on their minds.

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.