Dewey Dawson Comes to the Red Horse Ranch: Red Horse Ranch

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“Dewey Dawson Comes to the Red Horse Ranch” 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

Alabam Ring tries to help young Dewey Dawson settle at the Red Horse Ranch after his outlaw father was killed in a gun battle with a sheriff's posse. Dewey has been brought to the ranch, but Mr. Carter insists the boy cannot stay. Dewey's dog, which the ranch hands dislike, is also at the center of the dispute. Alabam brings Dewey down to the bunkhouse, where the boys are singing and objecting to having a dog there. Alabam tries to win the men over while Mr. Carter sets out his demands. The episode is part of the Red Horse Ranch series.

The Red Horse Ranch, including the bunkhouse where the ranch hands gather.

Characters: Alabam, Dewey Dawson, Mr. Carter, Cookie, Elizabeth

Listen for: Mr. Carter's order that the dog must be removed from the ranch, and Alabam's effort to change his mind.

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.