Battle At Tower Rock: The Six Shooter (February 21, 1954)

“Battle At Tower Rock” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 21, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Brit arrives in Tower Rock for the county fair and discovers the town deeply divided. A rivalry between two sisters, Thelma and Bessie, has escalated from a dispute over birthday gifts into a bitter feud that has split the entire community in half, with families taking sides and social groups fracturing.

Tower Rock, a Western town hosting a county fair on August 20th, with the action centered around the hotel, the Whitford Bank, and the homes of the feuding families.

Characters: Brit (The Six-Shooter), Rome Madden, Kermit Bingham, Bessie Madden, Thelma Bingham, The Judge, The Undertaker

Listen for: The details of how a simple gift-giving competition between sisters has torn apart an entire town's social fabric, and what role Brit will play as he becomes drawn into the conflict.

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.