ep55 Dewey Dawson Is Missing: Red Horse Ranch

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“ep55 Dewey Dawson Is Missing” 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

Dewey Dawson goes missing from the Red Horse Ranch in Alabama, and the ranch hands suspect outlaws who once rode with Trigger Dawson's gang, the late father of Dewey. The hands search the countryside, while Mr. Carter and Rose wait anxiously at the ranch. Later, Steve Bradford rides in with Dewey, saying he found the boy wandering on the B D land. Dewey explains that he was looking for his dog Elizabeth when two men seized him and took him across the hill before letting him go. The family is left wondering why the men wanted the boy's locket. The episode is part of the Red Horse Ranch series.

Red Horse Ranch, Alabama, and the surrounding countryside

Characters: Dewey Dawson, Mr. Carter, Rose, Alabama, Arizona, Bob, Steve Bradford

Listen for: Dewey's account of the two men who seized him, and the question of why they wanted his locket

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.