Radio Archeaology
The PULSE Community Podcast Presents "Radio Archaeology", reimagined radio classics from the golden age of radio in podcast form.
Episodes
45 episodes
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 ...
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...
