Eight Hundred Feet Down: Wild Bill Hickok (January 27, 1954)

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“Eight Hundred Feet Down” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 27, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his sidekick Jingles investigate a deadly explosion at the Yellow Jacket mine, where two miners have died and others are trapped deep underground. Mine owner Stallow seems uncooperative, and Bill suspects that someone has tampered with the mining cage. Bill, Jingles, Betty O'Neill and the mine foreman Matt Cruz descend into the shaft to search for the missing men. The 1954 episode of the Wild Bill Hickok series, which first aired on January 27, 1954, stars Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles.

The Yellow Jacket gold mine, in the American West

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Betty O'Neill, Matt Cruz, Stallow, Carney

Listen for: The sound of the cage and the danger of the shaft and tunnels, as Bill and Jingles search the mine

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.