Radio Archeaology
The PULSE Community Podcast Presents "Radio Archaeology", reimagined radio classics from the golden age of radio in podcast form.
Episodes
53 episodes
Gunsmoke: The Day Doc Adams Made Himself the Bait
When young Lemmy Woods is shot in the back and sent home tied to his horse, Doc Adams arrives too late to save him. The boy dies before he can name the men he was trying to leave behind, and Doc simply can't let it rest. Against Marshal Matt Di...
Dragnet: The Big Death - A Killer for Hire
A socially prominent Los Angeles businessman wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay $1,000 to make it happen. After two men turn him down, Sergeant Joe Friday steps into the role himself, going undercover on Skid Row as a down-and-out dri...
Gunsmoke: Two Husbands, One Wife and a Showdown at the Livery Stable
It's too hot a day in Dodge City for anybody to be running, but Sally Bogan is flying down the boardwalk like the devil himself is chasing her. When Marshal Matt Dillon stops her, she confesses a secret not even her husband Ben knows: at 17 in ...
Dragnet: Big Grandma - Nine Years of Bad Cheques
Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero of the LAPD’s Forgery Detail draw the assignment nobody wants: catching a soft-spoken, sweet-faced woman known only as “Grandma.” For nine and a half years she has worked just three months of the year - April...
Gunsmoke: The Killer Bound for Custer’s Cavalry
Marshal Matt Dillon and Chester are riding back into Dodge when they cross paths with a drifter driving an old rancher’s horses down a dry wash, a discovery that leads them straight to Amos Granby’s ransacked house and the old man hanging dead ...
Dragnet: Big 38 - Undone by His Own Baby's Birth Record
It was Friday, August 17th, and hot in Los Angeles when Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero picked up the robbery detail no cop wants: a store clerk shot dead because he didn't empty the till fast enough. Burt Matthews died in front ...
Gunsmoke: Luke’s Law - One Man’s Code
When old-timer Luke Burris is beaten half to death just outside Dodge City, his son Jess begs Marshal Matt Dillon to arrest the man responsible. But Luke wants no part of it. A frontiersman to his bones, he settled his own scores long before th...
Dragnet: Big Quack - The Diploma Mill Doctor
It was a chilly Sunday morning when Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero were called out to a Hollywood apartment where Marla Hutchins told a strange story. Her doctor, treating her twice a week with hypnotherapy for chronic headaches, had come ...
Gunsmoke: Love of a Good Woman - When Vengeance Meets Devotion
A telegram from an old friend in Arizona warns Marshal Matt Dillon that Coney Thorne, freshly released from prison, is riding for Dodge City with murder on his mind. Years earlier, Dillon had arrested Thorne for a stage holdup he never believed...
Dragnet: Big Poison - Cyanide in the Coffee Cups
Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero catch a case that starts quietly: an elderly Los Angeles couple, Walter and Kate Apperson, hasn't been seen in four days. Their next-door neighbour, barber Clarence Stokely, insists the pair never travels wit...
Gunsmoke: Old Lady - A Mother's Cold Reckoning
Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputy Chester ride past the Henry homestead one quiet morning and get a rifle shot for their trouble. Ellen Henry has never taken kindly to visitors, not since her husband Ethan died five years back and left her to ...
Dragnet: Big Actor - The One Role He Couldn't Fake
Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero catch a narcotics detail that hits close to home: a foggy Monday morning break-in at St. Christopher's Hospital pharmacy. A young intern is found bleeding on the floor, and $10,000 worth ...
Gunsmoke: The Old Gunfighter Nobody Believed
In Dodge City, an old man named Charlie spends his days parked outside the Dodge House, spinning yarns to anyone who'll sit still long enough to listen. His favourite subject is a legendary gunfighter called Rio Joe, a man Charlie swears he onc...
Dragnet: The Big Dare - A Deadly Invitation
It was a warm September night when Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero of the LAPD Homicide Detail caught a case unlike any other on the books. Betty Dixon, a divorced mother of one, was found stabbed to death in her Los Angeles home by her six...
Gunsmoke: Luke’s Law - When Pride Has a Price
When old Luke Burris was beaten half to death by Smed Moley and left by the creek, his son Jess did what his father never would - he rode into Dodge and asked Marshal Dillon for help. Luke was frontier stock, the kind who had carved a life out ...
Dragnet: The Big Chance - No Way Out
Officer Eugene Brewer, eight years on the force, a good record all the way, had simply disappeared somewhere along the Imperial Highway near the San Pedro cut-off. His cruiser was found idling on the shoulder, lights still on, radio still worki...
Gunsmoke: Dodge Podge - When Hate Pulls the Trigger
Dodge City is enjoying a rare quiet spell - green prairie, fine weather, and the trail herds not yet arrived. Marshal Matt Dillon and Chester take a moment to savour it. Then a commotion in the street pulls them up short. Lafe Sutter has his so...
Dragnet: The Big Cheque - The Paper Trail Runs Out
Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are two months deep into a forgery case that keeps slipping through their fingers. A well-dressed, middle-aged man has been working the small shops of Los Angeles - meat markets, liquor stores, gro...
Gunsmoke: Robber Bridegroom - When the Law Has a Heart
When the westbound stage rolls into Dodge City short a strongbox and short a passenger, Marshal Matt Dillon already has his suspicions. Franklin Reeves - a wealthy New Yorker with a fiancée named Laura on that very stage - is frantic, though Ki...
Dragnet: The Big Key - A Murder on Christmas Morning
It was Christmas morning in Los Angeles, and Detectives Joe Friday and Ben Romero were already at a churchyard crime scene before sunrise. The victim: a woman with no identification, lying in the rain-soaked grounds of San Andreas Cathedral. Th...
Gunsmoke: Trojan War - When the Law Isn’t Enough to Stop What’s Coming
When the Pueblo Gang rides into Dodge City, Matt Dillon already knows their history. Stage holdups from Colorado to the California border. Men shot in the back. A reputation that travels faster than the law. Dillon warns them plainly: one wrong...
Dragnet: The Big Press - Catching the Cowards
For more than a month, lone women across the western stretches of Los Angeles had been beaten, robbed, and left on the pavement. The attacks came at night, the descriptions were hopelessly vague, and the two men behind it had vanished into the ...
Gunsmoke: When the Truth is Buried
Jim Cobbett had waited a long time to stop being alone. A homesteader known more for his stubbornness than his luck, Jim had finally brought a bride out to his Kansas spread - a handsome, high-strung woman named Lila, fresh from back east. Matt...
Dragnet: The Hunt for the Badge Bandit
For two months, a predator had been working the darkened parks and canyon roads of Los Angeles — a stocky, blonde man who flashed a badge, then turned on his victims with his fists. Fifteen robberies. Fifteen assaults. Sergeants Joe Friday and ...
Gunsmoke: Two Mothers - A Good Woman With a Gun and a Promise
Jake Meisner is to hang for shooting an unarmed man in a drunken brawl. His mother Hattie knows he’s guilty — knows the law is the law — and she walks into Marshal Dillon’s office and tells him plainly: if Jake hangs on Thursday, she will kill ...
