The Fabulous Wind Wagon: Wild Bill Hickok (June 17, 1953)

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“The Fabulous Wind Wagon” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 17, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles investigate after Jingles' homemade wind wagon crashes into a barn and exposes a hidden coin press. Jingles has built the contraption to ride on the wind, and the crash puts the two lawmen on the trail of a counterfeiting scheme in town. Wild Bill questions the banker, who received a suspicious coin from another town, and the pair starts to piece together who might be passing phony money. The series, Wild Bill Hickok, aired on June 17, 1953, with Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles.

A small frontier town in the American West, with a general store, a bank, and a barn on a hillside.

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Deacon, Hamp Lester, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Bud

Listen for: Jingles' wind wagon crashing into the barn, and Wild Bill's questions about counterfeit coins at the general store and the bank.

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.