Daylight Dan: Wild Bill Hickok (September 30, 1953)

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“Daylight Dan” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 30, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles pursue two bank robbers through the Old West after a running gunfight in town. Jingles, who has fallen off a ladder and smeared purple paint over himself, chases the pair into Miss Petty's dress shop. The lawmen track the outlaws to a cabin, where Banker Smoot's stolen money is at stake and he demands results by sundown. The series is Wild Bill Hickok, first broadcast on September 30, 1953, with Guy Madison as Hickok and Andy Devine as Jingles.

A Western town and a nearby cabin in the woods, in the Old West.

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Miss Petty, Mr. Smoot, Runyon

Listen for: Jingles falling from the ladder, and the gunfight at the cabin where the robbers are caught.

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.