Pop Skinners Green Dragon: Wild Bill Hickok (March 31, 1954)

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“Pop Skinners Green Dragon” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 31, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his sidekick Jingles help Pop Skinner, leader of the Green Dragon volunteer fire company in Santa Fe. Jingles is initiated and put to work pulling the company's old hose cart, and a newspaper story about steam fire wagons catches Pop's attention. Hickok and Jingles are not sure what to make of the new machines, and they soon face a series of suspicious fires. The episode is part of the Wild Bill Hickok series, first aired on March 31, 1954, with Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Divine as Jingles.

Santa Fe, in the Old West, with its livery stable, city hall, and fire station

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Pop Skinner, Heston, Torchy, Mayor Wiley, Mayor Tubbs, Mary

Listen for: Jingles pulling the Green Dragon and the sound of the fire triangle ringing at midnight

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.