The High Tone Stranger: Wild Bill Hickok (December 2, 1953)

“The High Tone Stranger” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 2, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his sidekick Jingles, played by Guy Madison and Andy Devine, face a gambler named Albert Lomack, who sets up a shooting contest and then turns on them with a loaded gun. Hickok and Jingles are forced out of town, and they ride to the Pine Hill Mine to warn the Turner brothers, who have a claim there. The episode is part of the Wild Bill Hickok radio series, and this is the transcript's first part of The High-Toned Stranger, which was broadcast on December 2, 1953.

The Western frontier town and the Pine Hill Mine

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Albert Lomack, Caleb Brewster, Luke Turner

Listen for: Lomack's trick at the shooting contest and the plan Hickok and Jingles set up at the mine

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.