When The Shoe Doesn't Fit: The Six Shooter (June 17, 1954)

“When The Shoe Doesn't Fit” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 17, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Ponsey, a wandering gunslinger known as the Sick Shooter, rides toward Crown Ranch seeking work. Along the way he encounters a young person named Cindy Lou at a farmhouse and later meets Friendly, a traveling merchant who informs him of a celebration at Crown Ranch for Marty Prince, the son of rancher Floyd Prince who has just returned from school.

The Texas territories on a Saturday evening, traveling between Council City and Crown Ranch via the East Trail, passing farmhouses and encountering a traveling merchant wagon.

Characters: Britt Ponsey (the Sick Shooter), Cindy Lou, Friendly (traveling merchant), Floyd Prince, Marty Prince, Fern, A mother

Listen for: The mystery surrounding Cindy Lou's identity and appearance, and questions about the missing third woman in the buggy that passed by Friendly's wagon.

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.