Britt Ponsett's Christmas Carol: The Six Shooter (December 20, 1953)

“Britt Ponsett's Christmas Carol” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 20, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A boy running away from home on Christmas Eve meets a stranger by a campfire who tells him a story about a miserly man named Ebbon who despises Christmas. When Ebbon refuses his nephew's dinner invitation and orders his foreman to tear down a cabin sheltering a sick child, the ghost of his dead partner Jake appears to him, burdened with chains of greed, warning him of consequences to come.

A campfire in the Texas territories on Christmas Eve; a hotel room in town where Ebbon lives

Characters: Britt Ponsett, Johnny, Ebbon (Evan), Johnny's nephew, Quorum the foreman, Jake (ghost)

Listen for: A western adaptation of A Christmas Carol with Ebbon as the miserly protagonist confronted by the ghost of his former partner Jake

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.