What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles travel to Flat Rock to help their old friend Dusty Emmons, who has written asking for aid. Dusty's cattle need to be ferried across the river, but Mark Devlin, the only man with a boat, is demanding a high price and may be planning something worse. Bill devises a plan to get aboard Devlin's steamboat, the Delta Belle, in disguise. The series is Wild Bill Hickok, and this episode first aired on December 17, 1952, with Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles.
Flat Rock, a lively frontier town on the Missouri River, and the steamboat Delta Belle
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Dusty Emmons, Mark Devlin, Link Burns
Listen for: Bill's plan to board Devlin's steamboat disguised as a traveling salesman
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.