Lanky Joe: Wild Bill Hickok (October 8, 1954)

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“Lanky Joe” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 8, 1954. 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 Lanky Joe through the hills, tracking him into an old mine shaft and past a rocky pass. Joe's gang is still at large, and the two lawmen have little ammunition left as they try to bring their prisoner to town. The Wild Bill Hickok series aired on October 8, 1954, with Guy Madison as Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles. The episode is a western adventure in which the pair must outwit Joe at every turn while keeping their prisoner in custody.

The American West, including a mine shaft, a rocky pass called Rattlesnake Ridge, a river, and a frontier town with a jail

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Lanky Joe, Dale, Al, Lem

Listen for: The pursuit of Lanky Joe through the mine shaft and the tense standoff at the rocky pass

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.