Poison for Wild Bill Hickok | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (11-11-53)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Poison for Wild Bill Hickok

Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Episode: Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok – "Poison for Wild Bill Hickok" (11-11-53)
Date: November 29, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode is a digitally restored classic from the "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" radio series, immersing listeners in the golden age of Western radio drama. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his affable deputy, Jingles, return to Logan Center—a frontier town gripped by both lawless gangs and the promise of progress—as Bill is invited to help dedicate a new courthouse. What should be a celebration of justice quickly becomes a deadly game, as an assassination attempt on Wild Bill reveals deeper corruption and danger, forcing the lawmen into a dramatic showdown with the town's outlaw kingpin, Blaco.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Highlights

1. Returning to Logan Center

• Wild Bill and Jingles come back to Logan Center for a ceremonial event: Bill is to turn over the first shovel-full of dirt for the new courthouse, symbolizing law coming to the town.
• Jingles, ever comical and light-hearted, banters about stretching his paycheck and satiating his hunger while Bill explains the symbolic importance of the new courthouse.
  • Quote:
    • Jingles: “We rode back over a hundred miles just so you could turn over one shovel full of dirt?” (05:52)
    • Bill: “There’s a little more to it than that, partner. The law is really moving into the West now.” (05:59)

2. The Poison Plot

• Their meal at Chops Cafe is interrupted by Charlie Mock, the cook, who almost serves them poisoned beans.
• Chops, the owner, realizes at the last moment—only after noticing that Charlie tried to pass off rat poison as pepper.
• Charlie, outed as the would-be poisoner, flees to the saloon run by Blaco, notorious town troublemaker and gang leader.
  • Highlighted Incident:
    • Chops: “Harley poisoned them, that’s why!” (06:39)

3. Confronting Blaco and the Tension in Town

• Bill and Jingles pursue Charlie into Blaco’s gambling den but are stonewalled by Blaco, who demands a warrant. The tension thickens as Blaco issues a mafia-style threat about Bill’s fate if he keeps nosing around.
  • Quote:
    • Blaco: “You keep nosing around and somebody else might be turning up a spadeful of that earth and throwing it in your face.” (08:20)

4. Murder in Broad Daylight

• Charlie surges into the street, pleading for help before he’s gunned down, with the shot coming from Blaco's saloon. Blaco feigns ignorance, but Bill and Jingles know he’s involved.
• The town’s corrupt (and nervous) order is laid bare—Blaco’s intimidation has kept citizens and officials on edge for years.

5. Dedication Ceremony and Secret Investigation

• As Mayor Gibbs begins the courthouse dedication speech (15:08), Bill and Jingles sneak into Blaco’s saloon to hunt for murder evidence.
• Jingles’ commentary provides comic relief, even as the stakes rise:
  • “You know, I ain’t as good as I used to be at climbing through windows. Give me a push, will you, Bill?” (15:44)

6. Brilliant Ruse and the Final Standoff

• Bill devises a clever distraction: he throws bullets into the hot stoves, causing them to explode like gunfire, allowing himself and Jingles to escape via the balcony (21:36).
• Armed with the murder weapon—a rifle hidden in Blaco’s woodbox—they return just in time for a showdown as Blaco and his gang regroup.
  • Bill: “One thing’ll put Blaco behind bars.” (20:36)

7. Showdown and Triumph of Justice

• A blistering gunfight erupts in the street as the townsfolk, rallied by Mayor Gibbs, finally stand up to Blaco’s crew.
• Blaco’s confidence crumbles when presented with the evidence.
  • Jingles: “You’re new, you two-legged Gila monster. You’re going to jail for a good long stretch!” (24:05)
  • Bill: “Jingles did. So we’re ready for Blo Bill…” (23:26)

8. Poetic Justice and Closing

• Bill suggests Blaco, the now-defeated villain, should ceremoniously turn the first spadeful of dirt for the courthouse he tried to prevent—digging his own “finish with a bright shiny new shovel.” (26:06)
  • Jingles: “Sure is a pretty picture.” (26:41)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jingles (teasingly): “I’m not borrowing from you for a whole month. Now, you wait and see.” (05:06)
• Chops (on foiling the poison attempt): “That’s when I looked at the can—saw twasn’t pepper at all, but rat poison.” (12:11)
• Blaco (threatening Bill): “The odds are stacking up, Hickok. Somebody’s gotta get lucky sooner or later…” (08:29)
• Mayor Gibbs (inspiring speech): “As our late great President Abraham Lincoln said… You can’t fool all of the people all the time.” (16:14)
• Bill (on catching Blaco): “Your time’s running out, Blaker. The noose is getting tighter around your neck by the minute.” (14:25)
• Jingles (final note of justice): “Last of the low down crooks in Logan center digging his own finish with a bright shiny new shovel. Sure is a pretty picture.” (26:43)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:18] – The plan for the dedication, and Jingles’ memorable banter
• [06:39] – Poisoned beans: the attempt and Chops’ intervention
• [07:19] – Confrontation at Blaco’s gambling hall
• [13:28] – Charlie Mock shot in the street
• [15:08] – Courthouse dedication; Bill and Jingles sneak inside
• [20:01] – The search for murder evidence in Blaco’s saloon
• [21:36] – Bill’s trick with the stove and bullets for a dramatic escape
• [23:26] – Showdown: Blaco confronted with the murder weapon
• [24:41] – Townsfolk join the fight against Blaco’s gang
• [26:06] – Blaco forced to break ground for the new courthouse

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Tone & Style

The episode is brisk, laced with the folksy humor and bombast typical of Western radio dramas. Jingles’ comic relief balances the tension, and Wild Bill exudes calm resolve. The sound design, as advertised, is vivid—with every gunshot, hoofbeat, and creaking door restored to greater clarity, evoking the atmosphere of the Old West.

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Conclusion

"Poison for Wild Bill Hickok" exemplifies the classic Western showdown between law and lawlessness, dramatizing the peril and perseverance involved in bringing justice to the untamed frontier. The moral clarity, adventurous spirit, and witty repartee of the leads deliver a timeless entertainment experience.

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Transcript

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[Andrew Rines]

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and I'm excited to bring you another episode. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. You can find more Western shows at our website by going to otrwesterns.com now let's get into this episode.

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Narrator]

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[Mayor Gibbs]

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[Sarah (AM PM Advertiser)]

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Narrator]

When the early pioneers faced westward and pushed their ox drawn wagons for the setting sun, a swarm of gamblers, crooks and outlaws followed at their heels. Then on the trail of the outlaws came the law and United States Marshal Wild Bill Hickok. With his famous deputy Jingles behind roaring six guns. Wild Bill and Jingles cleared a path for justice in the west and were marked for death. Then one day, death came steaming up before them in poison for Wild Bill Hickok.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

I wish you'd hurry up with them beans. It's gonna be suppertime before I get my noon meal. Hurry up, Charlie.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Take it easy, Jingle.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hold your horses, you big ox.

[Mayor Gibbs]

I'm dishing them up now.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Charlie ain't worth his salt. I don't see why Chops keeps him around here.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Can't get him out of debt long enough to run him out of town, I guess.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, speaking of debt, Bill, I just remembered I cashed my paycheck this morning. Here's that $6 bits I owe you.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Well, thanks, partner.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That squares us up, huh?

[Narrator]

Yep.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Until next week.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, no. This month I. I'm gonna make my money stretch all the way. I'm not borrowing from you for a whole month. Now, you wait and see.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

All right, Jingles. I'll wait and see.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Now, don't say it like that, Bill. I mean it. I'm not gonna spend this 40 bucks all at once. I'm gonna stretch it all the way to next payday.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

There's the beans you've been yelling for, deputy.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, you don't have to sound so happy about it, Charlie.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

And there's yours, Marshall Hickok. Eat hardy.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Thanks, Charlie.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Don't thank me for nothing. You're paying for him.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Yeah.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

What's the matter, Jingles?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, now, dog Garnet. Stuff so hot I can't eat it.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Let it cool off for a minute.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, good idea. Fan it with my hat. Bill, what are we doing back in Logan center so soon?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

The mayor invited me to come back to dedicate the new courthouse.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Jingles, what are you gonna do?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I'm supposed to turn over the first shovel full of dirt.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You mean we rode back over a hundred miles of land just so you could turn over one shovel full of dirt?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

There's a little more to it than that, partner. The law is really moving into the west now.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well now, after you put it that way, I reckon it was worth it. But I guess we better eat up and get over there.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

There's lots of time. We're not doing till 5 o'.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Clock.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That's good. Then I can order up some more food. Charlie, come back here a minute, will you?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Yeah, what do you want?

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Tell Chops to rustle me up a man sized steak and a plate of potatoes.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

While I'm eating this, Tell Tilly.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Wild Bill. Wild Bill.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Don't touch them beans.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That's Chops Bill. Now what's going into him? Bill, you hear me?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Don't touch them beans. Ain't tasted them yet, have you?

[Narrator]

No.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Chops. Why?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Harley poisoned them, that's why. Hey, you just dug your grave, you old gopher.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill, don't knob.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You move or I'll plug you.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Billy shot Chops and he's making for the door. I'll get in.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Jingles, you take your chops.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

I said don't move, Hickok.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Head got his gun. Bill.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

I'm all right.

[Andrew Rines]

Jingles.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Go with Bill now. Let's get him, Bill. There he goes.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Charlie's sure fast on his feet.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

He sure is. He's heading straight for Blaco's gambling hall.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

And we're heading in right behind him, partner.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, but don't forget we ain't exactly friends with Blaco either.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Yeah, I know. Just slow up. Keep your eyes open. Going in.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Hold it, Hickok.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill, it's Blake who's got the drop on us.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Going someplace, Marshall?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I'm looking for Charlie Mock from the cafe. Blake or where is he?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

I never heard of him.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Now that's a bald faced lie if I ever heard one, you slick eared salamander. We're gonna turn this place upside down, inside out and kitty wampus till we find him.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Hold it, Jingle.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Yeah, tell him Marshall. Tell him you can't search my place without my permission or a warrant. It's against the law.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That's right, Blanco.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You don't have my permission and you.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Don'T have a warrant.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

So long, Marshall.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill, that sneak and weasel Charlie's hiding in this gambling hole someplace.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

We'll get him, Jingles. And maybe we'll get somebody else along with him. This could be my chance to nail you to the wall, Blakeo.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, Harboring a criminal will get you 10 years, Blake.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Oh, come on, Jingles.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Oh, by the way, Marshall.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Yeah, Blakeo.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

I understand the mayor invited you back to turn over the first spadeful of earth for the new courthouse.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That's right.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You better take a tip. You keep nosing around and somebody else might be turning up a spadeful of that earth and throwing it in your face.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

A lot of people have tried that, Blake.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Yeah, well, the odds are stacking up, Hickok. Somebody's got to get lucky sooner or later. So long, Marshall.

[Sarah (AM PM Advertiser)]

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Mayor Gibbs]

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Uh, Limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Cut the camera.

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[Narrator]

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Blaco (Antagonist)]

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Blaco (Antagonist)]

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[Narrator]

When Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles headed back for Chops Cafe after their encounter with Blaco at the gambling hall, Jingles was fit to be tied.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Why that double eyed slack jawed salamander Blake O was lying, Bill. And you know darn well Charlie Mock was hiding in the back room.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That's a pretty good bet, Jingle.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Are we gonna get a warrant and go back for a search? Maybe I shouldn't have left him.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Not right now. I want to see how Chops came out.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

But I was scared you'd get him to need some help.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Did you get him, Bill?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

No, Chops, not yet.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

During the low down insect.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

How bad did he get you with them shots, Chops?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Oh, it weren't nothing. Jingles burned marm a little. I done put some SAP on it. Forgot about it. You know, whole dad burn thing. Sure beats me though.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Got me a little puzzled too. Chops, how'd you know those beans were poisoned?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

I didn't at first. Heard Charlie say something about putting pepper on Wild Bill Hickok's beans and then.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Pepper?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Yep. Then of a sudden to come to known as I do that Bill don't like pepper. That's when I looked at the can. Saw twas and pepper at all but rat poison.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

But why do you want to kill Bill?

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Well, during fine. Oh, Charlie's been right sullen lately.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

About anything in particular.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Well, reckon he's been losing too much money over Blinko's gambling then. But I can't see where that could make him want to kill you, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Maybe I can add that one up for you, Chop.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

What do you mean by that, Bill?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Never mind that now, Jingles. Well, howdy, Mayor Gibbs.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Howdy, Bill. Boys told me they saw you running across the street. What's the commotion?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, Charlie Mock tried to feed Bill some poison, Mayor.

[Narrator]

Look.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Didn't need it, did you, Bill?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

No, man. Chops warned me in time.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Good for Chops. Got to have you with the dedication and ground turning this afternoon, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I'll be there, Mayor.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Hey, you better wear them six guns too, understand? Blake Owen. His boys are fixing to give us some trouble, Blake.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, that varmint.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

What's he up to, Mayor?

[Mayor Gibbs]

Oh, I reckon he's been the law around Logan center so long that he. He don't like to see a courthouse go up in town.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

He knows it means the end of his gang rule.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Now what in thunder, Bill?

[Mayor Gibbs]

Charlie Mux run across the street like.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

The devil was after W. Hick. Don't let him get me water. Bill. Bill.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Well, I'll be ding dong. Somebody shot Charlie in the back, Bill.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That shot came from Blo's place.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That's right, Jingles. Come on.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Watch yourself, Bill. I don't want nothing to keep you from that courthouse hitting east this afternoon.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

I'll be there, Mayor. You just hope you will. If the right things have been going so far, we just might wind up any place else but.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Well. Marshall, back again?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Yeah, Blaco, I'm back.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Forget something?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Charlie Mock's lying dead in the street out there. The shots killed him. Came from here.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You'd have to prove that, Marshall. Besides, me and the boys didn't hear a thing, did we, boys?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You're lying again, Blake. Oh, you shot him yourself.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Easy, Jingles.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Hickok, you better put a muzzle on that big wind bag or I'm liable to let the air out of him.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Your time's running out, Blaker. The noose is getting tighter around your neck by the minute.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You don't scare me, Hickok. I know the law and so do you. Anything you're thinking I did, you're going to have to prove.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

And don't think I won't, mister.

[Mayor Gibbs]

All right, folks, I guess it's time to get started.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Go, Mayor.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Get up.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Shoot off your face.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

That's all the good it's going to do.

[Mayor Gibbs]

That's enough on you, Blaco. Just you stick around and what I got to say will burn your ears, that's what.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Then let's hear it, you old flim flammer.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Ladies and gents, this is a red letter day in the history of Logan Center. Today on this hallowed ground, we are taking the first step. You look how.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

We're in luck. Bill Blake on his varmints are all over listening to the Mayor of speed.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

And we've got to work fast. This window's open. Let's get inside and find that rival. That shot Charlie Mark on it.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You know, I ain't as good as I used to be at climbing through windows. Give me a push, will you, Bill? Yeah. In you go. Partner in, Bill. Come on, hurry.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I'm coming through. Stand back. All right, let's look in the back room first.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

I sure hope this don't take too long, Bill. They miss us at that dedication Blake will come storming back here in the level.

[Mayor Gibbs]

I say. Blaco and his kind are on their way out. Justice will triumph. As our late great president Abraham Lincoln said. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time. You can even fool some of the people all the time. But you can't fool all of the people all the time. I thank you.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Don't. You can't talk about me like that. I'll have your head for that.

[Mayor Gibbs]

You won't have nothing but a robe, Blaco. When Wild Bill Hickok gets back here with the evidence he's getting.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Right this minute, Mayor, knock on your flapping jaw.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Shut up.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You done said too much. What do you mean evidence? Hickok. Blast that Star packers hide. He's back at my place.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

It's a trick.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Yeah, the doggone good one too. I reckon my speech held you spellbound, didn't it? Y. Coyote.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Come on, boys, back to my gambling hall. We smoked those two marshals out and got them down on their tracks.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

First one that lets Hickok get out alive is going to get a chest.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Full of lead from me.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Right, you maverick.

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill, we ain't getting no place. I haven't even found a pop gun, let alone a rival to match those slugs we took out of Charlie.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Keep looking, Jingles. It's got to be here someplace.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That's what you think. Maybe Blaco took it with him.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

He wouldn't take that chance. Quadrant.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, this is getting to be hard work with both those pot bellied stoves going full blast. Too hot for a fire today anyway.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Jingles.

[Narrator]

What?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

They coming, Bill. What's the matter?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Those fires. That reminds me, we haven't looked in those two wood boxes. Come on, dig under those chunks of firewood.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That's an idea. You take that other one and I'll look in here.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Got to have that rifle. One thing that'll put Blakeo behind bars.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill. Bill, I found it. Here it is. Same caliber. It's yours.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Good work, partner. That's got a shell in it for matcha.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill, Horses outside. It's Blake. Will coming back. Here's Haycock's horse.

[Mayor Gibbs]

They're here.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

All right. Spread out and close in.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Don't let him out alive.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

What are we gonna do now?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

We're in a tight spot, partner. He's got his whole gang out there.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, why don't the Mayor and some of his men come after him?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

They're so used to Blaco's running this town they'd hold back from force of habit. Jingles.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Then it's up to us, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Guess so. Unless we can make an old trick work for us again.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

What trick, Bill? Hickok, if you got a trick up Your sleeve. Let it out. Quick.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

All right, you leathernecks, get set to rush em.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill, here they come.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Quick, Jingles. Give me a handful of your bullets from your belt.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Sure, Bill. Here you are. Good, Bill. Whatever you're gonna do, do it quick.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Here goes. That's one. Now for the other. All right, Jingles, let's run for it.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

What's that for, Bill?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I threw bullets in both stoves. It'll sound like the Battle of Bull Run. Come on. There's a balcony out this window.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

More doggone window climbing.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Better than losing your neck.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

It is our all of you.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Come on, man. It's good.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

What's going on here?

[Mayor Gibbs]

Where's Hickok and Jingles?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Blo sure wallaced into a hornet's nest that time.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

All right, down those stairs. The horse was at the bottom.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Right with you, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

We time this right, we've got another mighty big surprise prize all set up for Blake on his mob. So don't drag your heels, Jingles.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Mayor. Now deck gummit. See what you went and done with your big flapping jaws. You got Wild Bill, Hickok and Jingles in the pocket shooting it out with Blake Ho's whole gang.

[Mayor Gibbs]

I didn't mean to say what I did, Chuck.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Well, you said it all the same. And if Wild Bill and Jingles is killed, you've done it with your own feather brain yammering.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Maybe they'll. They'll get out of it a lot.

[Narrator]

Maybe they won't.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Only thing you do is organize these men and lead them down again. Blake goes mobs.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Yeah, I reckon you're right. Men, I pulled a boner. He's got Wild Bill Hickok and that fine deputy of his in a bad spot. And we gotta save him.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

We sure do.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Come on, get on them coyotes, man. Right down the street of shooting.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hey, wait.

[Narrator]

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Well, glory be, Bill. We sure thought you and Jingles was goners that time.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill pulled a trick out of his sleeve and we got away clean as a whistle.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Don't count your chickens too soon, Jingle. Blake is going to get wise in a minute. And he'll be back with blood in his eye.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Did you find the gun, Bill?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Jingles did. So we're ready for Blo Bill.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

What if he comes back? I shoot.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Then we'll have the biggest showdown the west has seen in a month of Sundays. All right, gents, check your six guns.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, and you better check to see if you got enough sand in your backbones. To use those hog legs when Blakeo comes back too.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Not much time to waste, gents. Here they come now.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hot Z. This is one nail right down in history books. Hunt cover man square up. Let Blake go.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Get the idea we mean business.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You're going somewhere, Blakeo.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You know turn well where I'm going, Hickok.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You're new, you two legged Gila monster. You're going to jail for a good long stretch.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You got nothing on me, law man.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Tell him, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I think we have all we need, Blakeo. Jingles, hand me that rifle.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Where'd you get that?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

No, I just happened to dig it up out of your wood box, Blaco.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Blakeo, they got you cool.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You can't get away now, Blakeo.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

You ain't beat me yet, Hickok.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Spread out, men and blast them.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Here comes. Can we get them, Wild Bill?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You're out of your head, Blake.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Oh, you don't stand a chance.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, we'll start with you, Hickok. Billy's getting off behind that rain barrel. Swap him out, men.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Come on, Mayor. We'll get Blakeo's outfit down the last man. We've been waiting for this showdown for a long time.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Pour down him, jingle. Let him have it. Yes, sir. Now you salamanders, here comes the payoff.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

He's Peacock.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

He's the one I want most. Get Peacock. I said get him yourself, Blakeo.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

He shoots too straight for me.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, down your gun, you varmint. Somebody all yellow or something. I'll get him myself. All right, all right, all right, rest.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Of you, drop those guns. Get your hands up.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Look at them show their colors, Bill. All right, you coyotes, line up.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You too, Blo. Throw up your hands and head for the courthouse.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Ground last, you, Hickok. Hey, Mayor, they're all done. Attaboy, Wild Bill.

[Mayor Gibbs]

I knew you'd corral them.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Pat him up.

[Blaco (Antagonist)]

Right here, Bill.

[Mayor Gibbs]

Well, Blo, don't you can out think? Well, Bill. Hickok.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah. Blakeo's gonna spend the rest of his days looking through a set of iron bars.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That'll be up to judge to decide. Jingles.

[Narrator]

Yep.

[Mayor Gibbs]

And we're gonna have a judge sitting right on this spot in the new courthouse.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hey, that's right, Mayor.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I got an idea, Mayor.

[Mayor Gibbs]

What's that, Bill?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Well, since Blakeo set off his fireworks and drove it to a showdown, I suggest he turn over the first shovel full of dirt to start the new courthouse.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hey, that's a great idea, Bill. Well, you heard him, Blakeo. Grab that spade and dig in. Move I said all right. There it is gents. The new courthouse has started. Now that's justice of I ever saw. Last of the low down crooks in Logan center digging his own finish with a bright shiny new shovel. Sure is a pretty picture.

[Andrew Rines]

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[Narrator]

Now here are the stars of Wild Bill Hickok, Guy Madison and Andy Devine.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Andy, what's our story for Friday?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, this is a Lulu Guy all about the troubles Wild Bill and Jingles get into with a cute old character called Pedro the Poet.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

So long kids.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

See you Friday.

[Mayor Gibbs]

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[Mayor Gibbs]

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[Narrator]

Kellogg's, the greatest name in cereals has brought you another exciting spot story of Wild Bill Hickok starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine in person. Today's cast included Fred Shields, Jess Kirkpatrick, Vic Rodman and Jack Moyles. Our director is Paul Pierce. Story by Larry Hayes Music by Dick Arant. This is a David Hire production Transcribed in Hollywood now this is Charlie Lyon speaking for Kellogg's the Greatest Name in Cereal reminding you to listen again on Friday, same time, same station for another adventure of.

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