Big Welcome At Shady Rest: Wild Bill Hickok (February 27, 1953)

“Big Welcome At Shady Rest” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 27, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles ride into the town of Shady Rest, where a gunman on a cliff fires on them and a local rancher named Tate has lost his horses to raiders. Shady Rest is a town that appears hostile to strangers, and Bill and Jingles find themselves drawn into a dispute over stolen horses. The episode is a Wild Bill Hickok adventure, with Guy Madison as Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles. It was first broadcast on February 27, 1953. Bill and Jingles set a trap for the raiders on the trail near Tate's corral, and the events that follow involve Big Annie and her associate Blackie.

Shady Rest, a town in the Old West, and the surrounding trails and ranches

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Sheriff Bade Hawkins, Big Annie Mullins, Blackie, Mr. Tate

Listen for: Big Annie's instructions to Blackie about the raid on Tate's horses and her plan to frame Bill and Jingles

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.