Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter" - Myra Barker (06-24-54)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter"
Myra Barker (Aired June 24, 1954)

The Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures. Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt. The epigraph set it up nicely: "The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged: his skin is sun dyed brown. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow mother-of-pearl. People call them both The Six Shooter." Ponset was a wanderer, an easy-going gentleman and -- when he had to be -- a gunfighter. Stewart was right in character as the slow-talking maverick who usually blundered into other people's troubles and sometimes shot his way out. His experiences were broad, but The Six Shooter leaned more to comedy than other shows of its kind.

 

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June 24, 1954. "Myra Barker" - NBC network. Sustaining. The Six-Shooter proposes marriage. A well written show, the last of the series. The program may be dated September 27 or October 11, 1954. This is a network version. Jimmy Stewart, Jack Johnstone (director), Basil Adlam (music), Virginia Gregg, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Frank Burt (creator, writer), D. J. Thompson, John Wald (announcer). 29:55. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.