Double Action Danger: Wild Bill Hickok (November 25, 1953)

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“Double Action Danger” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 25, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles pursue the outlaw Radie and his gang across the Badlands. After Jingles is captured and Bill is forced to back down, Bill escapes his captors and learns that the gang plans to break convicts out of a territorial prison. Bill races to stop the scheme before the outlaws can strike. The Wild Bill Hickok series is a western adventure, and this episode originally aired on November 25, 1953, starring Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles.

The Badlands and a ranch near Dry River, a barn outside town, and a territorial prison near Bloomfield

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Radie, Buckshot, Mart, Brady

Listen for: Jingles being held prisoner and Bill's escape from the barn

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.