What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles investigate a band of claim-jumpers in the Colorado hills after a gunfight leaves Melba Smith hurt. Jingles rides ahead to find help while Bill goes for the doctor, Pliny Tookins, who is then taken by the outlaws. The series, Wild Bill Hickok, stars Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles, and this episode aired on April 1, 1953, sponsored by Kellogg's Sugar Pops. The story follows the rival gangs as Bill and Jingles try to recover the claim and the captured men.
The Colorado hills near the mining town of Gold Hollow, in the 1870s frontier era
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Melba Smith, Pliny Tookins, Tom Bloder, Gloater
Listen for: Jingles' trick with the claim stakes in the final scene
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.