Radio Archeaology
The PULSE Community Podcast Presents "Radio Archaeology", reimagined radio classics from the golden age of radio in podcast form.
Episodes
35 episodes
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 ...
Dragnet: The Big Fake - a Race Against Time
Detectives Joe Friday and Ben Romero of the LAPD’s Personnel Division caught an assignment unlike most — a complaint filed against one of their own. Rookie officer Russell Clark, just two and a half months on the job and with a pregnant wife at...
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 ...
Dragnet — The Big Smart Guy
It’s a damp March night in Los Angeles, and Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are barely out of the car when the call comes in: a woman shot to death in a fourth-floor hotel room, apparent motive robbery. Her husband, Theodore Benh...
Gunsmoke: Summer Night – A Baby Left Behind
It’s a sweltering summer night in Dodge City, and the biggest wagon train anyone has seen is finally rolling west. Matt Dillon, Kitty Russell, and Doc Adams watch it go — weary, relieved, and a little restless. But the night isn’t over. Tucked ...
Dragnet - The Big Job
It starts as a routine pickup. A teletype comes in: Alfred Garvey — wanted for forgery and robbery, known to pose as a fingerprint expert — is registered at the Fair Deal Hotel in Los Angeles. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero head...
Gunsmoke: "Billy the Kid" – The Killer Was 12 Years Old
When a notorious wanted criminal named Clay Richards turns up dead — draped across his saddle and delivered to Dodge City by a German farmer named Pete Ziglar — Marshal Matt Dillon finds himself standing at the centre of a storm he never saw co...
Dragnet — The Big Trial
It's just after midnight on a hot Los Angeles night when a woman is struck down — left for dead by a driver who never slowed down. Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Romero catch the case with almost nothing to work with: a near-sighted witness, a par...
Gunsmoke: The Juniper Tree – Justice Where Guns Can't Reach
When soft-spoken horse rancher Jim Stanley is framed by the ruthless gambler Mingo and his scheming dance-hall girl Dixie, Marshal Matt Dillon faces a challenge that no six-shooter can solve. Bought witnesses and a corrupt legal system are stac...
Dragnet – The Thank You
Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Romero are dispatched to the quiet Wilmington home of Mrs. Laura Mueller — the woman who spent eleven years fighting to set Annie Johnson free. What they find is a web of calculated deception. Mrs. Mueller has vanish...
Gunsmoke: The Pacifist - A Story of Redemption and Courage
When Harden Hook arrives in Dodge City, half-starved and desperate for work, Marshal Matt Dillon offers him a helping hand. But Hook's past as a Confederate raider who participated in the violent Lawrence, Kansas raid of 1856 catches up with hi...
Dragnet - The Big Watch
When a series of brutal hitchhike robberies targeting Army officers escalates to murder, Detectives Friday and Romero face a cunning gang that seems to vanish into the Los Angeles night. The bandits operate with vicious precision—stealing cars,...
Gunsmoke: Gentleman's Disagreement - When Loyalty Collides with the Law
In "Gentleman's Disagreement," Marshal Matt Dillon faces one of his most personal challenges when an old friend from Louisville arrives in Dodge City with blood on his mind. Jeanie Wells seeks Matt's help after spotting Ed Bodrey on the morning...
Dragnet - When Your Friend Becomes Your Collar
Detective Sergeant Joe Friday faces an impossible dilemma: his Army buddy Max Tyler is caught red-handed in an armed robbery that leaves Friday's partner Ben Romero wounded. Despite their friendship, Friday must do his duty and send Tyler to pr...
Gunsmoke: Potato Road - When Poverty Breeds Deadly Desperation
This Gunsmoke episode explores the dark consequences of poverty and family dysfunction when a strange, yellow-haired young man named Budge appears in Dodge City with an urgent request—Marshal Matt Dillon must arrest his own father for murder. T...
Dragnet: The Garbage Chute Murder
When 28-year-old nightclub organist Laura Barclay is found strangled in her apartment with every door and window locked from the inside, it appears to be an unsolvable crime. The talented organist from the Blue Fox cocktail lounge lived quietly...
Gunsmoke: Stage Holdup - When Greed Destroys Criminal Trust
This gripping Gunsmoke episode takes listeners on a journey through the tension between criminal greed and Marshal Matt Dillon's patient detective work. When Dillon awakens during a stagecoach holdup to find a shotgun in his face, two masked ba...
Dragnet - The Agnes Kelby Case
This gripping 1949 Dragnet episode tells the chilling story of Agnes Kelby, a 39-year-old woman who vanished from her valley home without taking clothes, luggage, or money—immediately raising red flags for Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero. W...
Gunsmoke: Cottonwood Pond - When Greed Nearly Destroys Dodge City
This powerful Gunsmoke episode takes listeners into the heart of a frontier crisis. When a devastating drought threatens a massive cattle herd, trail boss Jack Jackson desperately needs water from Cottonwood Pond. Rancher Dyke Howard has fenced...
