The Case Of The Dead Mans Dollar: Wild Bill Hickok (January 29, 1954)

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“The Case Of The Dead Mans Dollar” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 29, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles are fired on by a sniper outside their Santa Fe office while Jingles is studying a mail-order book on detective work. Following clues from the shooting, they trace a counterfeiting scheme to an old copperhead mine, where they find a dead man and a hidden room. The episode is part of the Wild Bill Hickok series, first aired on January 29, 1954, with Guy Madison and Andy Devine in the lead roles. Jingles and Bill must sort out who is behind the fake silver dollars.

Santa Fe in the old west, a post office, the marshal's office, and the abandoned copperhead mine on the river road

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Took, Jason Beach, Trivet

Listen for: The sniper shots fired at the marshal's office and the scene in the mine tunnel where the dead man is found

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.