Three Bells to Perdido: Have Gun, Will Travel (January 18, 1959)

“Three Bells to Perdido” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 18, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin is hired by Jesse Reed to bring back Dave Enderby, an outlaw who shot Reed and ambushed his men when Reed tried to rescue his daughter from Enderby in the Mexican outlaw town of Perdido. Paladin travels to Perdido, where the town's custom is to ring bells when strangers arrive or leave, and confronts Enderby in the local cantina.

Perdido, an outlaw town in Mexico, and San Francisco in 1875

Characters: Paladin, Jesse Reed, Hey Boy, Dave Enderby, Señor O'Brien, the Alcalde

Listen for: Paladin's first encounter with Enderby in the cantina, where knife-throwing and gunplay establish the danger of the task ahead

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.