What happens
Wild Bill Hickok, newly serving as a town marshal in Hays City, Kansas, with his deputy Jingles, confronts trouble when a gunman is killed outside the Blue Feather gambling hall just before singer Violet Pernay is due to arrive. Bill warns the saloon owner Pharaoh Nagle that he will be closed down, and Pharaoh responds with threats. Violet's performance draws the marshals to the Blue Feather, where Bill and Jingles find a tense mix of gamblers and outlaws. The story is an episode of the radio series Wild Bill Hickok, first broadcast on February 20, 1952, with Guy Madison as Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles.
Hays City, Kansas, in the Old West, at the Blue Feather gambling hall and the town's streets.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Pharaoh Nagle, Violet Pernay, Jerry, Hook
Listen for: Pharaoh Nagle's threats against Bill and the arrival of singer Violet Pernay at the Blue Feather.
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.