Treasure Hunt: Have Gun, Will Travel (September 13, 1959)

“Treasure Hunt” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 13, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Young John Meriwether arrives in San Francisco as a stowaway, seeking Paladin's help to find his late father's buried treasure using a map that arrived in the mail. When someone breaks into John's hotel room and attacks him while searching for the map, Paladin agrees to protect the boy and help him locate the lighthouse saloon in Sacramento, where the map's mysterious return address originated.

San Francisco, 1875. Paladin's room at the Carlton Hotel.

Characters: Paladin, John Meriwether, Miss Wong, Hay Boy

Listen for: A young runaway's desperate quest to prove his absent father was not a failure, and the mysterious intrusion that suggests others are after the same treasure map.

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.