The Bellson Boys: Wild Bill Hickok (October 29, 1954)

“The Bellson Boys” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 29, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles are caught in a storm while riding through Texas and seek shelter at a house belonging to Jingles' Aunt Marty. Her nephew Matt Jones is there, and she meets them with a loaded rifle, explaining that robbers have ransacked a neighbor's home and shot his brother. Bill becomes determined to catch the robbers, and Jingles recalls being bullied as a boy by the Belson brothers, whom they suspect. The episode is a Wild Bill Hickok radio adventure from the series, originally broadcast on 1954-10-29, starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine.

Texas, during and after a violent storm, at the Jones farmhouse and Buzzard's Canyon

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles Jones, Aunt Marty, Matt Jones, Jim, Sam Belson, Blackie Belson

Listen for: Aunt Marty's sudden arrival with a rifle, and Jingles' recollection of the Belson brothers bullying him as a boy

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.