Landfall: Have Gun, Will Travel (November 22, 1959)

“Landfall” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 22, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin arrives at Elizabeth Mitchell's logging camp in Washington Territory after receiving her urgent telegram. He finds her struggling to keep the camp operating against the interference of a neighboring logger named Hoffman, who has hired the violent Axel Grundel to intimidate her workers. Elizabeth desperately needs Paladin's help to get her logs through and save the camp from financial ruin.

A logging camp near Palmer Junction in Washington Territory, Cascade Mountains, 1875, with flashback to San Francisco earlier in the year.

Characters: Paladin, Elizabeth Mitchell, Hoffman, Axel Grundel, Max, Jeff, Hey Boy

Listen for: Paladin's investigation into why Hoffman is blocking Elizabeth's logging operation and what stakes are involved in getting the logs to market.

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.