The Shadow Hill Gang: Wild Bill Hickok (June 3, 1951)

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“The Shadow Hill Gang” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 3, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his sidekick Jingles arrive in Flat Rock after a stagecoach holdup by masked riders of the Shadow Hill gang. Bill wounds one of the robbers, and the lawmen soon meet Julie Sanders, the schoolteacher who once kept company with the gang's leader, Reed Bradford. She has been receiving large sums of money in envelopes, apparently sent by Bradford from prison. Bill and Jingles set a watch at the schoolhouse to catch the mysterious courier, and the trap leads to a gunfight and a dead man at the hotel. The episode is from the Wild Bill Hickok series, with Guy Madison and Andy Devine.

The frontier town of Flat Rock and the surrounding hills and canyons

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Julie Sanders, Reed Bradford, Chris Bradford, Pop Willis, Trigger, Dave

Listen for: Pop Willis reveals that Reed Bradford has been sending money to Julie Sanders, and Chris Bradford decides to use the schoolteacher to force his brother to reveal where the gang's loot is hidden.

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.