Way for the Delta Queen: Have Gun, Will Travel (July 24, 1960)

“Way for the Delta Queen” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 24, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin is hired by Colonel Tulliver to serve as bodyguard for the Delta Queen, a Mississippi riverboat racing against the Stonewall Jackson to St. Louis. Before the race even begins, someone sabotages the Queen's rudder cable, and Paladin must discover who aboard the boat is trying to ensure their defeat.

San Francisco and the Mississippi River aboard the Delta Queen riverboat, 1875

Characters: Paladin, Colonel Tulliver, Captain, Boy

Listen for: A mysterious saboteur tries to prevent the Delta Queen from winning her race, and Paladin begins investigating among the passengers and crew.

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.