Hey Boy's Revenge: Have Gun, Will Travel (March 1, 1959)

“Hey Boy's Revenge” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 1, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin returns to the Carlton Hotel to discover that Hey Boy, his former helper, has disappeared after receiving notice of an accident at a railroad construction site in Cold Water. When Paladin learns that a Chinese worker named Kim Sung died under suspicious circumstances and that Hey Boy's brother Kim Chang seeks revenge, he travels to confront the section superintendent Travis, only to find the situation more complicated than it first appears.

San Francisco in 1875, and the railroad settlement at Cold Water on a plateau in the mountains.

Characters: Paladin, Hey Boy (Kim Chang), Travis, Mr. Chung, Kim Sung

Listen for: The mystery of Kim Sung's death and whether it was truly an accident or murder, and what becomes of the young Hey Boy who travels to Cold Water seeking justice.

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.