Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter" - Blood Relations (05-27-54)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter" - Blood Relations (Aired May 27, 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. Show Notes From The Digital Deli.

THIS EPISODE:

May 27, 1954. "Blood Relations" - NBC network. Sustaining. The brother of Jud Coffin is courting Viola Wilcox, George's sister. George is violently opposed to the idea of "blood relations," and there's going to be trouble. Jimmy Stewart, Basil Adlam (music), Jack Johnstone (director), Frank Burt (creator, writer), Barbara Eiler, Sam Edwards, Herb Ellis, John Wald (announcer). 30:17. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.