Bad Medicine at Dry Gulch: Wild Bill Hickok (October 28, 1951)

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“Bad Medicine at Dry Gulch” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 28, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles are called to Windy Flats after a railroad construction crew led by Jack Halloran is attacked by Indians. Halloran's son Mickey is caught up in the trouble when he meets a young Indian boy at a spring. Bill and Jingles set out to find the missing boy and to make sense of the raid, which the Indians deny planning. Guy Madison plays Wild Bill and Andy Devine plays Jingles in this 1951 episode of the Wild Bill Hickok radio series, first aired on October 28, 1951. The story follows the men as they question the situation and try to find out who is behind the trouble.

The American frontier, near the railroad construction site at Windy Flats and Dry Gulch, with the town of Pottersville nearby.

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Jack Halloran, Mickey Halloran, Little Red Fox, Blackie, Red, Chief Fighting Bear

Listen for: Listen for the sudden Indian attack on the railroad crew and the mystery of who sent the raiders.

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.