Ben Scofield: The Six Shooter (November 1, 1953)

“Ben Scofield” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 1, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Ponsett, a drifting gunslinger known as the Six-Shooter, arrives in Clay City to shoe his horse and learns that the Wells Fargo office was robbed the night before, with one man dead and another gravely wounded. Hoof prints at the scene match those of a horse belonging to Sheriff Scofield's son Ben, who left town two days earlier. Ponsett and the reluctant sheriff follow a blood trail into the desert, where they surround a cabin harboring a young, wounded fugitive.

Clay City and the surrounding territories of the American West, with a robbery at the Wells Fargo office and a pursuit into the desert

Characters: Britt Ponsett (the Six-Shooter), Sheriff Ed Scofield, Heavy Norton (blacksmith), Fred Wilmer (wounded robbery victim), Ben Scofield (sheriff's son), Doc Heddy, the young fugitive

Listen for: The dramatic tension between Ponsett and Sheriff Scofield as the evidence points toward the sheriff's own son; Ponsett's patient tracking skills and psychological understanding of human nature; the confrontation at the cabin in the moonlight

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.