What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles ride to Fort Robinson, where the army is pinned down by a large Sioux war party led by Chief Grey Cloud. Bill is Grey Cloud's blood brother and hopes to talk the chief down. The Wild Bill Hickok series, broadcast in 1952, features Guy Madison as Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles, and this episode is titled War Drums and the Princess. The story follows Bill's attempt to negotiate peace and the danger facing the fort and its people as the standoff grows more tense.
Fort Robinson on the western plains, and the surrounding Sioux camp and hills, during the years after the Civil War.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Major Freeman, Betty Lou Freeman, Chief Grey Cloud, Blue Dawn, Dr. Mills
Listen for: Bill's bold ride into the Sioux camp to speak with Chief Grey Cloud, and the tense exchange over the life that must be given in exchange for the fort's safety.
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.