Four Aces for Death: Wild Bill Hickok (August 19, 1951)

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“Four Aces for Death” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 19, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles pursue a gang of outlaws who have robbed a bank in Greenfield and fled toward the hills. The four outlaws have drawn cards from a deck of four aces, each one assigned to a killing of Wild Bill. Bill and Jingles follow their trail through the countryside, noticing that the robbers have struck several banks recently. The story of Wild Bill Hickok airs in the series named for him, with Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles, and the original air date was August 19, 1951.

The American West in the 1870s, during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, around the towns of Greenfield and Cedarville and the hills to the south.

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Luke Beeler, Nippy, Albert, Dingo, Sheriff

Listen for: The sound of gunfire and horses as Bill and Jingles chase the robbers, and the gang's sinister plan drawn from the four aces.

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.