Stardust: Have Gun, Will Travel (October 23, 1960)

“Stardust” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 23, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin receives a telegram from the famous retired actress Lola Blackwood asking for his urgent help in Grass Valley. When he arrives, he discovers that Lola did not send the telegram and is surprised to find her engaged to a man named Boone Caldwell who seems hostile to Paladin's presence. An investigation into who sent the forged telegram begins.

Grass Valley, California, at the hotel and telegraph office. Paladin travels from San Francisco.

Characters: Paladin, Lola Blackwood, Boone Caldwell, Laurie, Hotel desk clerk, Telegraph operator

Listen for: The mystery of who forged Lola's telegram and why they wanted to bring Paladin to Grass Valley, and the tension between Paladin and the possessive Boone Caldwell.

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.