An Attempt Is Made to Kidnap Dewey Dawson: Red Horse Ranch

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“An Attempt Is Made to Kidnap Dewey Dawson” is an episode of Red Horse Ranch, the old-time radio show that aired in 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

On the Red Horse Ranch, the hands suspect two escaped outlaws, once members of Trigger Dawson's old gang, have tried to kidnap young Dewey Dawson. While the cowboys sing and work horses, Dewey searches for his missing dog, Elizabeth, and wanders toward a clump of trees. Cookie is left to keep an eye on him. Alabama, Tex, Bob and Chuck then go looking for the boy, and their search turns up a locket that Dewey always wore around his neck. The men fear the boy has been taken, and the broadcast ends on that worry, with no answer yet about what the outlaws want with him.

Red Horse Ranch, a working cattle ranch, with a corral, a chuck house and a clump of trees nearby.

Characters: Dewey Dawson, Alabama, Tex, Bob, Chuck, Cookie, Arizona, Dui

Listen for: The discovery of Dewey's locket near the trees, and the cowboys' fear that he has been kidnapped.

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.