The Outlaw: Have Gun, Will Travel (December 14, 1958)

“The Outlaw” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 14, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin is hired by a banker named Alcorn to stop the outlaw Manfred Holt from reaching Plaserville, where Holt has escaped from jail after killing two deputies. Paladin catches up with Holt during a gunfight with the sheriff in a thicket, and discovers that Holt is trying to reach his wife's cabin to see his newborn son before facing justice.

San Francisco and the wilderness near Plaserville, during the present day of the story

Characters: Paladin, Ned Alcorn, Manfred Holt, Sheriff Jake Ludlow, Abe, Gage, Mr. Davis

Listen for: The tense showdown in the thicket as Paladin closes in on the fugitive Holt, and Holt's emotional plea to visit his newborn son

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.