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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter" - Quiet City (02-14-54)

January 09, 2013
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Boxcars711 Overnight Western "The Six Shooter" - Quiet City (Aired February 14, 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.

THIS EPISODE:

February 14, 1954. NBC network. Sustaining. The son of the sheriff of Quiet City is leaving town, refusing to follow in his father's footsteps. A shoot-out with a killer proves them both have the right idea. Basil Adlam (music), Jack Johnstone (director), Virginia Gregg, Will Wright, Lamont Johnson, John Wald (announcer), Robert Griffin, Jimmy Stewart, Frank Burt (creator, writer). 29:33. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.


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