Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter"
"Johnny Springer" (Aired April 22, 1954)
Though The Six Shooter wasn't the first popular adult western to air over Radio, a case can be made that it was the first to thoroughly legitimize the genre over the medium. Not only were The Six Shooter scripts--and casts--the equal of any of the first wave of adult westerns to air over Radio, but the series carried the considerable weight of James Stewart in the starring role as Britt Ponset, the reluctant, yet highly efficient, western gunslinger. For the era, James Stewart was a natural choice to popularize the genre over Radio. His ground-breaking--for Stewart--depiction of the angst and inner turmoil of his protagonist, Lin McAdam in Winchester '73 (1950), launched a series of James Stewart appearances in other taut Anthony Mann and Alfred Hitchcock psychological thrillers over the following ten years. More importantly, the timing was perfect to cast Stewart in a psychological western thriller for Radio. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.
THIS EPISODE:
April 22, 1954. NBC network. Sustaining. Clerk Sid Tucker has been shot. He identifies "Johnny Springer" as the killer. The trail leads to the cabin of a beautiful senorita. Jimmy Stewart, Basil Adlam (music), Jack Johnstone (director), Frank Burt (writer, creator), Virginia Gregg, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips, Parley Baer, John Wald (announcer), Joel Cranston. 30:45. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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