What happens
Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles investigate a killer wolf that has been slaughtering calves on Miranda's ranch. Miranda, a widow, fears she will lose her herd and be unable to repay a mortgage held by Blaine Jackson, a neighboring rancher. On a dark night in the arroyo, Bill and Jingles find wolf tracks alongside horse tracks, and an unseen gunman fires on them. The next morning they visit Jackson, who is curt and evasive, and the two lawmen decide to keep looking into the matter. The series is Wild Bill Hickok, a 1953 radio program starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine.
The American West, on Miranda's cattle ranch and the neighboring Jackson ranch, including a dark arroyo.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Miranda, Blaine Jackson, Whip
Listen for: Listen for the wolf's howl and the shots fired in the dark arroyo, and for Jackson's evasive replies about the mortgage and the wolf.
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.