What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles investigate a series of train robberies by the Choya gang, which has struck the Old Number Nine train. Telegraph operator Pop Rannie, about to retire, sends a warning message to Hickok after the gang stops the train and seizes the express car gold. Hickok and Jingles travel to the isolated station to learn what happened. Wild Bill Hickok, starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine, aired on February 8, 1952. The episode follows Hickok as he pieces together clues at the station and confronts the gang while the station staff face danger.
The Old West, along the railroad near Pop Rannie Station and the town of Virgil
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Pop Rannie, Tim Malone, Mike
Listen for: The telegraph clicks and Hickok's reasoning from the Morse code clue
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.