Shooting Of Wyatt King: The Six Shooter (May 20, 1954)

“Shooting Of Wyatt King” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 20, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Brett Ponset, a skilled gunslinger known as the Six Shooter, arrives in Copper Springs just as the outlaw Wyatt King is brought in wounded. The townspeople assume Ponset shot King, but Ponset denies any involvement. When King regains consciousness, he insists that Ponset is the one who shot him, leaving Ponset bewildered and determined to discover the truth.

Copper Springs, a town in the Western territories, and surrounding areas including Tenderfoot Creek.

Characters: Brett Ponset (the Six Shooter), Wyatt King (the Wyoming Kid), Sheriff Hampton, Dr. McIntyre, Jonas, Ollie, Mayor

Listen for: The mystery of who really shot Wyatt King and why the outlaw falsely identifies Ponset as his shooter.

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.