North Fork: Have Gun, Will Travel (June 21, 1959)

“North Fork” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 21, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin receives an urgent message summoning him to North Fork, where a community of religious settlers called the Men of Knights faces mounting trouble. When he arrives, he finds tension between the settlers and locals like Judd Pope, who resents their presence, especially after one of their own, Tildy, left her former life to join them. The settlers' fields have been burned and their land is threatened.

San Francisco in 1875 and the town of North Fork

Characters: Paladin, Hey Boy, Miss Wong, Mr. Chang, T. Buchanan, Tildy, Judd Pope, Mr. Bruckner

Listen for: A confrontation in a store between Judd Pope and the settlers, and Paladin's assessment of the troubles facing the religious community at North Fork.

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.