The Red Skull | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (09-23-53)

Summary

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Podcast Summary:

Old Time Radio Westerns – "The Red Skull" | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (09-23-53)
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Original Air Date: September 23, 1953
Podcast Release: August 23, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode brings listeners a digitally-restored classic adventure of Wild Bill Hickok and his jovial deputy Jingles, set deep in the golden age of radio Westerns. The story centers around a string of gold shipment robberies orchestrated by the cunning outlaw known only as "The Red Skull." Wild Bill and Jingles set out to unravel the villain’s identity and trap him, taking audiences on a suspenseful, action-packed journey laced with humor, sharp banter, and quintessential Western atmosphere.

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Key Discussion Points and Story Developments

1. Introduction and Setup

• [01:39] Host Andrew Rhynes welcomes listeners, emphasizing the enhanced audio and the nostalgic value of the episode.
• [02:59] Brief introduction to the premise: Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles embark on an investigation to bring the elusive Red Skull to justice after a series of gold shipment robberies.

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2. The Dig and the First Clues ([04:41–08:17])

• Wild Bill and Jingles dig for a strongbox, guided by an anonymous tip.

• They unearth the Wells Fargo strongbox but instead of gold, find only rocks and a taunting note:

  “If you think you can catch up with me, you’ve got bigger rocks in your head than these. – The Red Skull” (Wild Bill reading note, 08:17)

• This demonstrates the Red Skull's cunning and establishes the personal challenge between outlaw and lawmen.

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3. Pursuing Leads: Suspects and Red Ink ([11:41–15:24])

• Jingles questions, “Who in thunder’s the Red Skull, Bill?” (11:41)
• They compare two notes and deduce they're written by the same person—one in pencil, the other in red ink, both with distinctive handwriting.
• Bill and Jingles visit two main suspects:
  • Dud Ritter, the bank manager (whose fingers are stained with red ink, supposedly from "the bank going into the red").
  • Hank Shooter, Wells Fargo agent (also with access to red ink).
• Tension and comic banter ensue:

  Jingles: “I’d just as soon lock Ritter up and get proof later.” (14:48)
  Wild Bill: “Keep trying, partner. You put them all together, they might add up to something big.” (15:24)

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4. Ambush and the Trap is Set ([17:28–19:14])

• A brief aside features comic relief with Tar Head, the telegraph operator, and Jingles' misadventure with a practical joke.
• Wild Bill devises a trap: he dictates two fake telegrams with contradictory gold shipment timings—one to Hank Shooter, one to Dud Ritter—to see which “insider” will tip off the Red Skull.
• Jingles, catching on to the plan:

  “Oh, it’s a trick, huh?” (18:44) Wild Bill: “If we get the right man looking for the gold shipment, we might have a chance to tangle with the Red Skull.” (18:46)

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5. Closing In: The Final Confrontation

The Stakeout ([19:14–25:07])

• Bill and Jingles lie in wait at two potential hold-up spots, covering both the stagecoach and the freight wagon.
• The stagecoach passes without incident, so they rush to intercept the freight wagon.
• They spot the robber, masked with a red skull hood, attempting to hold up the wagon:

  Jingles: “That road agent’s wearing a red sack over his head with a skull painted on it!” (25:21)

The Chase and Capture ([25:21–27:48])

• After a fast-paced chase, the outlaw flees back to town and enters the Wells Fargo office.
• Bill and Jingles corner him—revealed as Hank Shooter, the Wells Fargo agent.
• Dramatic struggle, gunfire, and a final arrest:

  Shooter (as The Red Skull): “This is your finish, lawman!” (27:16)
  Wild Bill: “Straighten up and stand hit, Shooter. Your days as the Red Skull are over.” (27:48)

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6. Aftermath and Resolution ([27:56–28:20])

• Dud Ritter, the banker, enters as the truth emerges—expresses gratitude and apologizes for doubting Bill and Jingles.
• Jingles’ trademark humor:

  “We got something besides feathers in our heads. We got plenty of something else. When I figure out what it is, I’ll tell you.” (28:20)

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• Jingles, on clues:
  “I’ll be a pink-toed elephant. You mean this was all a dirty trick on us?” (12:11)
• Wild Bill, on determination:
  “It’s the only lead we’ve got, and I mean to run it down.” (06:29)
• Jingles' comic relief after catching the Red Skull:
  “When I figure out what it is, I’ll tell you.” (28:20)
• On the Red Skull’s taunt:
  “You’ve got bigger rocks in your head than these.” (08:17)

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Key Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/topic | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:39 | Host introduction, context for episode | | 04:41 | The dig for the strongbox, discovery of rocks & Red Skull’s note | | 11:41 | Comparing clues; suspects and red ink discussion | | 14:36 | Interview with Dud Ritter (banker) | | 15:07 | Interview with Hank Shooter (Wells Fargo agent) | | 17:28 | Comic relief with Tar Head; preparing the telegram plan | | 19:14 | Wild Bill’s trap plan; heading for the stakeout | | 23:21 | Watching/waiting for the robbery | | 25:07 | The attempted robbery; Red Skull in action | | 27:02 | Confrontation and unmasking of the Red Skull (Hank Shooter) | | 27:56 | Resolution; Dud Ritter apologizes; comic banter from Jingles | | 30:46 | Stars’ sign-off and tease for next episode |

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Episode Tone & Style

The episode blends suspenseful Western action with lively humor, largely provided by Jingles’ colorful dialogue. The tone is fast-paced and dramatic, balanced by playful banter and clever investigative strategy. The restored audio enhances the immersive “old-time radio” experience, transporting listeners to a cinematic Wild West.

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Conclusion

This episode of "Old Time Radio Westerns" showcases a classic cat-and-mouse tale, with Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles outsmarting a crafty outlaw hiding in plain sight. Blending investigative twists, memorable characters, and quintessential Western action, “The Red Skull” offers an engaging, family-friendly adventure that both honors and reinvigorates the golden age of radio drama.

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Transcript

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[Jingles]

Now Bill, you know it don't make sense that an owl hoot with a liquor brain would bury his loot out in the open like this.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's right, Jingles.

[Jingles]

Then what thunder we. What are you digging here for?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

This is where the map said the strong box was buried, buddy.

[Jingles]

Well, it can just stay there for another five minutes. I gotta take a breather, Bill.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All right, Jingles. I'm for that too.

[Jingles]

Bill, you reckon you could get one of the canteens? I couldn't walk from here to the horses buckshot.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Jingles is thirsty.

[Jingles]

Now. If that ain't the smartest horse on four feet, he sure is.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, there's your water, Joker.

[Jingles]

Doggone it, why ain't you that smart?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Uh.

[Jingles]

Oh.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Now you've done it, Jingles. There he goes.

[Jingles]

Joker. You hungry old hop dude now come back here.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You'd better apologize to him, partner. It's a long walk back to town.

[Jingles]

Aw, come on, Joker. I didn't mean it. Come on back, please.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

You're gonna have to do better than that.

[Jingles]

Yeah, I guess so. I'll give you a big nose bag full of oats when you get to town with the lump of sugar. Two lamps, Joker. Yeah, he's got his price.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

He's smarter than you think. Jingle.

[Jingles]

Yeah, when it comes to talking me out of something he wants.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, all right, partner. Come on. Let's get back to digging for that strong box. We've got a robbery to solve.

[Jingles]

Oh, sharks, Bill. I thought maybe he'd forgot about that.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Not on your Life. There was 3,000 in gold in that shipment. Get that picture working.

[Jingles]

Yeah, but how do you know that note you got was on the level, Bill?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I don't. But it's the only lead we've got, and I mean to run it down.

[Jingles]

Now, doggone it, who's shooting at it?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Maybe this was a good lead after all. Pardon?

[Jingles]

Yeah, but it can get too good, you know. Now, where is that gas?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

There he is, hiding up there in those rocks.

[Jingles]

Well, let's go get him.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That might be just what he wants us to do, partner.

[Jingles]

How do you figure that?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

If he draws us away from this spot, somebody else could come in and dig up the strong bar.

[Jingles]

If it's here, you mean.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Only one way to find that out, and that's to keep digging.

[Jingles]

Yeah, get shot in the back while I'm doing it.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, he's not coming very close. Jingle.

[Jingles]

He's coming close enough.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Jingles, you hit something.

[Jingles]

I sure did.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah. Let me dig around it.

[Jingles]

That's what it is, Bill. Sure is shooting. Hey, by the way, the gaffer in the rocks has quit shooting.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's good. Yeah. Give me a hand.

[Jingles]

All right. That's it, Bill. Says Wells Fargo right on it.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Shipment number 326. Hey, this is the right one.

[Jingles]

It's locked.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I'll fix that. Here, stand back a little.

[Jingles]

Now we'll see. $3,000 in gold all in one box. That ought to be quite a sight.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yep. Open the lid and let's be sure.

[Jingles]

Bill, look.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Rocks.

[Jingles]

All that digging just to come up with a box full of rocks.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Hey, wait a minute, partner. Here's a note.

[Jingles]

A note? What's the note doing in there? Hey, Bill, it's written and ready. What's it say, Bill?

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[Wild Bill Hickok]

It just says Hickok. If you think you can catch up with me, you've got bigger rocks in your head than these. And it's signed the Red Skull.

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[Jingles]

Now who in thunder's the Red Skull? Bill?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

It's somebody that knows we're looking for the robbers.

[Jingles]

Jingles I could figure that out from this note.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All right. Here's the other note we received this morning.

[Jingles]

The one that told us where to dig, you mean?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah. Now look at the two notes side by side.

[Jingles]

All right, I'm looking. One's written in pencil and the other one in red ink. The first one wasn't signed.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

But the same man wrote them both.

[Jingles]

He did? Sure.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Now look at the way the T's are crossed. The big tails on the Y's.

[Jingles]

Well, I'll be a pink toed elephant. You mean this was all a dirty trick on us?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

It sure was. He planted the box with a red note. Wrote us another one telling us where to dig.

[Jingles]

Well, I'll be dog. Then who was shooting at us?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

The same man, probably. And now he's got the laugh on us.

[Jingles]

Well, I'll make him laugh out of the other side of his mouth. If I ever get my hands on.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Him, so will the judge. Pardon. Let's hit the saddle. Steady there, Bucktuck.

[Jingles]

Yeah, but we gotta catch him first, Bill. And that don't look easy. He's meaner and sin and slick as a muskrat. Where are we gonna start looking?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Who's got red ink candy that you know of? Jingle.

[Jingles]

Red ink. Well, they got some at Dudridders bank. Yeah, and the Wells Fargo office. I saw a bottle on Hank Shooter's desk yesterday.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Say, that's right. And that'll do for his daughter. We'll have a talk with Dud Ritter and Hank Shooter. Come on, let's head for town. Get up there, Buckshot.

[Jingles]

Hot boy. Get along, Joker. Bill did better. Better get into something besides talk if I'm gonna be satisfied.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Don't worry, Jingles. I'm guessing we'll see Pleasure. Plenty of gun smoke before we catch up to that red skull. Red ink. What's all this talk about red ink and red skulls, Hickok?

[Jingles]

Now you just hold your horses a minute, Mr. Ritter, and we'll tell you what it's all about. Unless you already know.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Easy, Jingle.

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[Wild Bill Hickok]

Bandit is robbing every gold shipment in or out of this town. And you two so called lawmen haven't done anything about it. Hold on now, Mr. Ritter. We're trying to do something about it.

[Jingles]

And you're not being much help. I'm thinking. Well, what can I do?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I'm no detective.

[Jingles]

I'm a banker. Yeah, with red ink stains on your fingers.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's because my bank's going in the red.

[Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops Announcer]

And why?

[Jingles]

Because I can't get gold from outside.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

And if I don't, I'm going to.

[Jingles]

Have to close my doors.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Come on, Jingles. We're not getting any place here.

[Jingles]

We sure are.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, get out and find that bandit Hiccough. And don't come around here wasting my.

[Jingles]

Time till you got him behind bars. We going into the Wells Fargo office to talk to Hank Shooter, Bill?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah. He might give us a new lead, Jingle.

[Jingles]

Well, if you ask me, we don't need any more leads. That banker man, Dud River Ritter acted as guilty as a killer wolf and a flock of sheep.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's not enough, Jingle.

[Jingles]

Oh, I know. Doggone it. We gotta have proof. Well, I just as soon lock Ritter up and get proof later.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, here we are. You let me do the talk with Hank Shooter.

[Jingles]

Oh, sure. I'll just stand there like a big bump on a Bill. He ain't here.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

So I see.

[Jingles]

There's a half empty bottle of red ink on his desk and a round splotch on his blotter like he spilled some.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That could happen to anybody, Jingles.

[Jingles]

Doggone it, Bill, cut that out. Every time I dig up a clue, you go and say it don't amount to nothing.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Keep trying, partner. You put them all together, they might add up to something big. You never can tell.

[Jingles]

Well, I think they already add up. Get down, Jingles. Down. Build the red skulls after us again. Quiet, partner, quiet.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Somebody's coming. Hey, Hiccock, what's happened?

[Jingles]

Somebody took a shot at us through that land and it just might happen to be you, Dudritter. Me?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Oh, shingles. It was me. I'm glad I missed you fired that shot, Hank.

[Jingles]

Hank Shooter. I got a good mind to break.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Hold it, hold it, Jingle.

[Jingles]

Hold it, hold it, hold it.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

What was the idea, Hank? I didn't know it was you, Marshall. And these blasted gold robberies have got.

[Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops Announcer]

Me as skittish as a two year old cold.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I wouldn't let it get me trigger happy if I were you. You know, you could hit the wrong man.

[Jingles]

And he darn near just did. And I ain't forgetting it either.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

What do you know about these robberies, Hank?

[Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops Announcer]

I know that road agent's running us out of business.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

And it's running my bank out of business too.

[Jingles]

Yeah, you said that once.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

How does a bandit find out when the gold's coming in?

[Jingles]

How should I know?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All right, tell me how you get information on a gold shipment. Me? Why, the information comes by telegraph and then I look out for the stage bringing it in.

[Jingles]

Yeah, and the red Skull looks out for it too. Only he gets there first.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

And if it's a shipment for the bank, Dud Ritter gets a copy of the telegram. You keep your eyes open, Ank. We'll check with you later. Come on, Jingles.

[Jingles]

Oh, you got that look in your eyes again, Bill Hickok. I got a feeling we're headed for a showdown with the Red Skull. All right, Ticker, you old sansley. Jump up and say howdy. Well, darn if it ain't Wild Bill hicking his feather headed friend, Jingos. Feather headed? Now don't you call me feather headed, you prune faced old buzzard. Now come to think of it, maybe there ain't no feathers in your head after all. Maybe there ain't nothing in it. Well now, that's better. No, it ain't neither, Dog. Got it.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Hey, hey, hey, you two stand off. Glad to see you're still friends though.

[Jingles]

Sure we are.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Shake on it, Jingles.

[Jingles]

Sure, Ticker. Shake. Put it there. Grab hold. I'm a grab now. Help. Help. Help. Help. Build. Ah, you dance real good, Jingles. Best one I ever played that trick on you. Doggone murder environment. What'd you do to me? Just a little shocking machine. Rigged it up myself. Yeah, and I'll get even with you if it takes all summer.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

All right now, simmer down, you two. We came here on business.

[Jingles]

Business? Yes, sir, Wild Bill, what can I.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Do to help you? Get a couple of telegraph blanks and I'll tell you.

[Jingles]

Got him right here. Want to send a telegram?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Not out of town. I want you to make up two telegrams. One goes to Hank Shooter at the Wells Fargo office.

[Jingles]

Shooter? Yeah.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

And the other to the banker, Dud Ridder.

[Jingles]

Gotcha, Bill. What are you up to?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Just a little trap, Jingle. What you want to say to him, Wild Bill? I want you to tell one of them that a gold shipment is coming in by stagecoach tomorrow evening at seven o'. Clock. Yeah, got that. Tell the other one the gold is coming by freight wagon one hour later at 8 o' clock tomorrow night.

[Jingles]

Bill Hickok, you've been holding out on me again. How'd you find out there's gold coming into town tomorrow night?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I didn't jingle.

[Jingles]

Oh, it's a trick, huh?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Maybe. Well, if we can get the right man looking for the gold shipment, we might have a chance to tingle with the Red Skull. The Red Skull?

[Jingles]

Yeah, the Red Skull, you old walrus. And if you so much as spill a word of this to anybody, I'll come back and sit on You.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Here we are. This is the first lookout spot, Jingles. Pull it out, Buckshot.

[Jingles]

How'd you figure all this out, Bill? You got me as curious as a coyote and a chicken coop.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I figure we've got two men who could be the Red Skull Jingle Dud.

[Jingles]

Ridder at the bank or Hank Shooter at Wells Fargo.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's right. They both know about gold shipments.

[Jingles]

So if the stage is held up, we got one. And if it ain't, then what?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Then we high till it to Bush Trail and watch the freight wagon come through.

[Jingles]

You sure picked the two best spots for a hold up. You know, you should have been a road agent yourself.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Let's just hope I guessed right. Jingle. Quiet.

[Jingles]

Quiet. Billy heard something. Yeah. Yeah. Here comes the stage coach Bill. Right on time.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's lucky for us. Now keep your eyes peeled for a hold up jingles and be ready for a showdown fight.

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[Jingles]

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[Wild Bill Hickok]

They're sugar coated. Taste of sweet. Just pour on some milk.

[Jingles]

Boy, they're neat.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

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[Jingles]

But cowboys know there's an extra treat.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

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[Kellogg's Sugar Pops Narrator]

While Bill Hickok had set up a carefully planned trap to catch the Red Skull in the act of robbing either the stagecoach or the freight wagon. On a high point overlooking a narrow pass, Bill and Jingles waited for action as they saw the stagecoach approaching.

[Jingles]

He's coming into the pass, Bill.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah, the Red Skull's gonna make his play. He better act fast.

[Jingles]

I hope he does. I'm sure itching to throw a set of handcuffs on him. Well, I don't see nobody yet, Bill.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I don't either.

[Jingles]

Reckon we could have picked the wrong spot.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Sure. This is the best place to pull a stick up and make a getaway.

[Jingles]

Well, she's gone and nothing happened. What are we gonna do now?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Play the other guard, partner.

[Jingles]

You mean go watch the freight wagon?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's it, Jingles. In one hour old tar head'll be lumbering up the grade on Bush Trail. We got some riding to do. So let's go. Hi, Buckshot.

[Jingles]

Hi boy. Jump, Joker. We got some country to cover and a road agent to catch. Ho ho. H Bill, you sure pick the roughest country you could find to ride over.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

It's the shortest route to Bush Trail though. Jingle. Hey. We're coming up to our lookout point now.

[Jingles]

I'll be too doggone tired to tangle with the Red Skull if we do catch up to him.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Here we are.

[Jingles]

Wings. I'm sure ready to take a breather.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

We've still got enough daylight to see by.

[Jingles]

If there's anything to see, you mean.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Well, there comes old tar heads freight wagon starting up the grade now.

[Jingles]

Yeah, but I don't see no owl who's hiding out alongside of the trail.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Those rocks and bushes could hide an army partner.

[Jingles]

Well, if they're down there. I wish they'd make their play. This suspense is killing me.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I could have guessed wrong, you know.

[Jingles]

Now don't go saying that. Then we'd have to start all over.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

There it goes, Jingles. Get ready, Bill.

[Jingles]

It's a lone rider holding up the freight wagon.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Let's get him.

[Jingles]

Hi, Buckshot. Move out, boy. Jump, Joker. We're coming to the end of the trail. And don't dump me going down this hill.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Tar Head's fighting back, Jingles.

[Jingles]

I hope he don't run that Jasper off till we get there. Bill, look. That road agent's wearing a red sack over his head with a skull painted on it.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah, and I'm right anxious to see the the face into that hood. All right, Buckshot, level off and dig in.

[Jingles]

Bill. Environment cena see riding on after him. Jingles. I have a ch basta boy 2 headed Salamine that tried to rob me. What did he say, Bill? I didn't hear any.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Jingles.

[Jingles]

What you say to our head? I sh that low down two face pigeon toed brother to a sad eyed healer monster tried to hold me up.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah, we saw it, Tar Head. You all right?

[Jingles]

All right? Sure am. But mattering a centipede with two corns and a bunion on each toe. That bandit asked me for a gold shipment. Anybody knows I don't carry no gold. Billy's getting away.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

We'll get him. See you back in town, Tar Head. Come on, Jingles.

[Jingles]

That's right.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Dig him.

[Jingles]

But shot. Yeah. Come on children. We got some tall riding to do to catch that coyote. Billy's riding right into town.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Yeah, we were lucky to keep him in sight.

[Jingles]

You reckon he'll go to the bank.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Or the Wells Fargo off and you'll soon see. Hey, look.

[Jingles]

He's pulling up the Wells Fargo office.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

And we'll ride in behind him. Partner.

[Jingles]

Joker.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

We're closing in after him, Dingles.

[Jingles]

Now be careful, Bill. You ain't likely to be very welcome.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

We'll see about that.

[Jingles]

Stay back, you nosy lawman, or I'll.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Blast your hides off. You're coming to jail, shooter. Take it any way you want it. You just think I am.

[Jingles]

Bill. Again. Matt got his gun hand, Bill. I ain't trouble you yet, Hic. Billy's got a rifle. Oh no you don't. Shoot her. This is your finish, law man. Drop that rifle. Look out for him, Bill. Drop that rifle, Shooter. Grab it. I sent. Oh, you're breaking my arm.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

That's better. Get her, Jingles.

[Jingles]

I got it, Bill.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I'LL straighten up and stand hit. Shooter, your days as a Red Skull are over.

[Jingles]

Hey, I heard shooting. What's going on here?

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Auntie. Mr. Ritter, you're just in time.

[Jingles]

Yeah, we caught the Red Skull for you. There he is, Shooter.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

The Wells Fargo agent robbing those stages himself. That's right. He had some right fancy tricks to cover his tracks, too. Here's a red hoodie worn his fingers are stained with red ink.

[Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops Announcer]

Well, I owe you an apology, Marshall. I thought you weren't doing anything to catch him.

[Jingles]

You should have known better than that, Mr. Ritter.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

I should have plugged in you both in my office yesterday. Yeah, that was a good trick, too. Shooting at us in your own office.

[Jingles]

Well, you didn't fool Wild Bill and Jingles none. We got something besides feathers in our heads. We got plenty of something else. When I figure out what it is, I'll tell you. Too foreign.

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[Kellogg's Sugar Pops Narrator]

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

[Wild Bill Hickok]

Friday, we've got a brand new story for you. Tell them about it, Andy.

[Jingles]

Well, Guy, it's all about a deadly range war between settlers and cattle ranchers and it's called the Green Valley Feud.

[Wild Bill Hickok]

So long kids.

[Jingles]

See you Friday. Choo Choo choose your favorite and Kellogg's Variety pack so mom and dad and kitties too choose Kellogg's cereal is good for you.

[Kellogg's Sugar Pops Narrator]

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[Jingles]

So.

[Kellogg's Sugar Pops Narrator]

Kellogg's, the Greatest Name in Cereals has brought you another exciting story of Wild Bill Hickok, starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine in person. Today's cast included Fred Shields and Ken Christie. Our director is Paul Pierce. Story by Larry Hayes, Music by Dick Oran. This is a David Hire production Transcribed in Hollywood. Now this is Charlie Lyon speaking for Kellogg's the Greatest Name in Cereals reminding you to listen again on Friday, same time, same station for another Adventure of.

[Jingles]

Sam.

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