What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles stop in Thunder Springs on their way to Wyoming. Bill steps in when a bully named Jasper mistreats a crippled boy, Tommy Jones, and Jasper threatens them in return. Bill learns from Dr. Ken that Tommy needs $2,500 for an operation that could let him walk, and that the wealthy horseman Big Red Box L controls the town. Bill decides to enter his horse Buckshot in the town's sweepstakes race to win the prize money. Before the race, Buckshot disappears, and Jingles is found unconscious. The series is Wild Bill Hickok, and this episode aired on February 22, 1952, with Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles.
The town of Thunder Springs in the Old West, and a nearby ranch and cabin in the hills
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Tommy Jones, Dr. Ken, Big Red Box L
Listen for: Bill's bargain with Box L over the race, and what happens to Buckshot
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.