Gunshy: Have Gun, Will Travel (May 3, 1959)

“Gunshy” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 3, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin travels to Big Pine, Montana to help recover stolen money and goods from an old Chinese laundry owner whose uncle was robbed by three escaped convicts. Paladin arrives at Ma Warren's boarding house and begins investigating the whereabouts of the three criminals.

Big Pine, Montana, 1875 - a boarding house near the Canadian border

Characters: Paladin, Hey Boy (the laundry owner's nephew), Ma Warren, Chuck Anderson, Nancy Warren, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Fry, Mr. Dayton

Listen for: Paladin's investigation into three fugitives who robbed a Chinese laundry of nearly $1000 and are heading toward Canada; tensions surface at the dinner table among the other male boarders.

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.