Homecoming: Have Gun, Will Travel (June 28, 1959)

“Homecoming” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 28, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin travels to Hammond after receiving a telegram from Will Stanhope, president of the Overland Line. Ed Stacy, wrongly imprisoned for a stage robbery years ago, has just been released after a deathbed confession from the real culprit clears his name. Stanhope fears Stacy will seek revenge and hires Paladin to prevent bloodshed, but complications arise when Stacy's angry brother Ben confronts Paladin, and Paladin discovers the townspeople have turned against Stacy on Stanhope's orders.

Hammond, a frontier town, and the Carlsen Hotel in San Francisco in 1875. The story centers on the Overland stage office and local businesses in Hammond.

Characters: Paladin, Will Stanhope, Ed Stacy, Ben Stacy, Sheriff Clyde, Miss Wong

Listen for: A tense moral conflict as Paladin navigates between a guilty man trying to buy peace and a wronged man struggling to rebuild his life while everyone in town conspires against him.

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.