About this episode

This episode features classic radio dramas including The Shadow, Have Gun Will Travel, and Gunsmoke, all originally broadcast on April 24 across different years.

Westerns and Crime on a Friday First, a look at this day in History. Then, The Shadow starring Orson Welles and Margot Stevenson , originally broadcast April 24, 1938, 88 years ago, The Power of the Mind. A famous psychiatrist, kidnapped aboard a foreign freighter, uses telepathy to call the Shadow to the rescue. Followed by Have Gun Will Travel starring John Dehner , originally broadcast April 24, 1960, 66 years ago, Irish Luck. Paladin makes friends with an Irishman named O'Bannon on St. Patrick's Day. Shortly thereafter, O'Bannon finds himself on trial for a robbery and murder. Paladin testifies at the trial, and O'Bannon is acquitted. Then, Gunsmoke starring William Conrad , originally broadcast April 24, 1954, 72 years ago, Murder Warrant. Likeable Lee Prentiss has been shot in an ambush. Jake Harbin is not so likeable, but he's a deputy sheriff with a warrant for Prentiss' arrest. Followed by Frontier Town starring Reed Hadley , originally broadcast on April 24, 1953, 73 years ago, Sundown Valley. Violet Kennedy and her young son are being run out of Sundown Valley by an unscrupulous rancher. A broken leg, a landslide, and a wedding soon follow! Finally, Fibber McGee and…

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Host: Wyatt Cox

Topics covered

• Westerns
• Crime
• History
• Telepathy
• Trial
• Beauty Contest

Keywords

• The Shadow
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Gunsmoke
• telepathy
• trial
• Irish Luck
• Murder Warrant
• beauty contest

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